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Prayer Exalts the Mind and Heart
How can you complain about life if you don't pray? How can you be angry with God when you don't speak to Him, or, more importantly,...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Nov 11, 20191 min read
Ask Forgiveness, Don't Blame Others
God knows everything about us. But do we know everything about ourselves? We must commit to uncovering the things we have done to harm...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Be Born from Above: Follow the Spirit
"The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 16, 20191 min read
Inner Peace and Health
"Do not overlook the fact that health does not depend on food alone, but above all on inner peace. Life in God, cutting us off from...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 2, 20191 min read


Mary's Birth Allowed Freedom
"By Your Nativity, O Most Pure Virgin, Joachim and Anna are freed from barrenness; Adam and Eve, from the corruption of death. And we,...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 20, 20191 min read
Fighting Satan in the Heart
"The most important work that a spiritual wrestler can do, is to enter within the heart, there to fight Satan; to hate and repel the...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 14, 20191 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 25, 20194 min read
Addition to the Second Kneeling Prayer
This is a vocal prayer, which is added in after the reading of the Second Kneeling Prayer on Pentecost. It, too, gives us much to...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 22, 20192 min read
First Kneeling Prayer of Pentecost
Below is a vocal prayer that offers much to meditate upon (the bold type is added to assist you in starting a meditation). Before you...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 19, 20193 min read
God Leads Us Away from Evil
"...there is something which has originated directly from Satan. From him comes a vague timidity and fear that troubles the soul of a...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jun 12, 20191 min read

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