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St. Hugh of Lincoln: Please Pray!
Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of deep prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. Please keep me close so that I may have strength to walk with everyone who comes for confession and spiritual guidance. Thank you for guiding me during the earliest days of my life. You have always exemplified for me a life of contemplative prayer and servant leadership. A depiction of St. Hugh of Lincoln.

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Nov 161 min read


St. Bruno: Please Pray!
Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of deep prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. Today, I am reminded of the motto of your Carthusian Order: "Stat crux dum volvitur orbis" (Latin for "The Cross is steady while the world turns"). Saint Bruno of Cologne, by Nicolas Mignard.

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 61 min read


St. Thomas the Apostle: Please Pray!
Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of deep prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. Please keep me close so that I may have strength to walk with everyone who comes for confession and spiritual guidance. "Thomas, the faithful servant and disciple of Christ, filled with divine grace, cried out from the depth of his love: 'You are my Lord and my God!'" (Kontakion — Tone 4). Icon depicting the Theotokos gi

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 61 min read


St. Paul the Simple: Please Pray!
Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of deep prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. "In you, o venerable Father Paul, the image of God shone forth, for you carried your Cross and followed Christ. By so doing you taught us to disregard the flesh for it passes away, and to care instead for the soul since it is immortal, wherefore your soul forever rejoices with the angels" (Troparion — Tone 8). An icon of

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 41 min read


What it Means to be Christian (Homily)
On the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, we hear what it means to change from within and without. First, we learn what it means to give...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 291 min read


Comforted by the Dead
I like places with long, deep Christian histories Where the faithful dead Guard and guide pilgrims of every generation. I like places...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 81 min read


Pray for Me, St. Symeon of Syracuse, Mt. Sinai & Trier
Pray for me St. Symeon and lead me along the paths of prayer in solitude and the building up of a community of faithful who desire to...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 11 min read


St. Thomas Pretends to be Deranged
"Saint Thomas pretends to be deranged For the sake of Christ, his Savior, And God, he glorifies in his heart, The only One, the Creator...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 241 min read


Murdered for Her Holiness!
Today, we commemorate Martyr Thomais of Alexandria who was beheaded by her father-in-law for refusing to give into his lustful demands....

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 141 min read


Teach us Selflessness and Contemplation
We humbly ask you to intercede for us, St. Filarete of Calabria. Teach us how to serve others without concern for the personal cost and...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 81 min read

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