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HOLY SILENCE
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Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Repent and Acquire a Haven of Peace
"Do not fritter away the time given you for repentance. Do not rivet your eyes to the earth on which you are a momentary actor, on which...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Help Others, Die to Your Old Self
To truly help others - to intercede for them - one must love. To truly love - to sacrifice for them - one must know God. To know God - to...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 2, 20191 min read
Less of the World, More of God
Have you started working on letting go of those things, which the world imprints on you? Those things, which are not of God? Examine your...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jul 8, 20191 min read
Why is Praying So Hard?
Mainly because we run from God. At one level, we're comfortable in our delusions and we don't want to disavow ourselves of them. At...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jul 5, 20191 min read
With Prayer, We Receive
Spiritual gifts are freely available to us all. But we must be spiritual in order to receive them. What does that mean? Prayer is the...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 25, 20194 min read
Addition to the Third Kneeling Prayer
This is a vocal prayer, which is added in after the reading of the Third Kneeling Prayer on Pentecost. It, too, gives us some passages on...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 10, 20192 min read
God Breaks the Bondage of the World
"This world - with its ideas, principles, rules, and in general, with all its order, which has been elevated to the status of an...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 17, 20191 min read
Are you preparing yourself?
The days and weeks after Pascha (Easter) are ripe with opportunity to open yourself to God in a new and more complete way. Look to the...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 15, 20191 min read
Awakening Can Come in Two Ways
God will sometimes grant a person external manifestations of the Divine Order, which are quite often visions that are revealed while...
Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 3, 20191 min read
A Self-Made Life is Not Christian
"The true Christian life is the grace-given life. Self-made life - however beautiful in appearance it may be and to whatever outward...
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