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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 15, 20191 min read
New Ways of Understanding
Even though we can never truly grasp God's brilliant complexity and awestriking luminosity, He is always inviting us onto a pathway of...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
May 9, 20191 min read


Let us Dine with You, O Lord
We beg you, O Lord, to let us dine with you at the Mystical Supper; not because we are worthy, but because we love you and desire to...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 22, 20191 min read
He Will Lift You Up from Hell
God wants you to know He will not abandon you in your sorrow. Meditate on this irmos (a miniature hymn), from Ode 6 of The Great Canon of...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Mar 8, 20191 min read
Enlighten, Guide and Teach Me
The Great Canon of St. Andrew, Bishop of Crete, is a long hymn used over the first few days of Great Lent. St. Andrew himself composed...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Mar 6, 20191 min read
Who?
You. And only you. You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Lead me to you. Teach me to shun everything that is not of you. There...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Feb 16, 20191 min read
How, O Lord?
How, O Lord, do we draw closer to you? How do we teach others to grow in you? How do we fight their fear and anguish? Teach us to pray...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Do this...
Meditate on the Most Holy Trinity every day. Sleep, eat, and exercise well. Study Sacred Scripture and the writings of the spiritual...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 30, 20191 min read
Know this...
You are an interior being. Your body is God's temple. Your mind was made for God's wisdom, not mankind's reason. You were made to seek...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 28, 20191 min read
A Ladder Rising Wondrously to Heaven
"The first step is that of purest prayer. From this there comes a warmth of heart, And then a strange, a holy energy, Then tears wrung...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 25, 20193 min read

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