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I Am the Good Shepherd
For your understanding and use in prayer: John 10:11-18 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 23, 20151 min read


Sacred Scripture on the Holy Spirit
For your understanding and use in prayer, the following is a partial selection of verses about the Holy Spirit. “But now I go away to him...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 18, 20152 min read
If They Persecuted Me, They Will Also Persecute You
John 15:18-27 If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 16, 20151 min read
God's Compassion
Compassion for Orthodox Christians –whether you are Russian, Greek, Serbian, or something other -- begins with the very nature of God...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 15, 20153 min read


Why We Can't Ignore Spiritual Activity
"From this it follows that all methods or exercises for kindling and preserving the spirit of zeal can be briefly stated thus: after...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 11, 20153 min read


Learning to Pray Like a Hesychast
To grow in spirituality, we cannot allow the mind and/or the lips to be external from us. Hesychasm means "to keep stillness." Control...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 9, 20152 min read
Asceticism and the Response to Secularism
Christians have seemed to embrace the prevailing culture instead of converting it. That's why it's so important to have a conversion of...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 7, 20153 min read
Martyrdom as the Example for Asceticism
For the earliest Christians, the preservation of their personal belief in God, as well as the preservation of the Church itself, was so...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 4, 20153 min read
Asceticism: The Inner Mission of the Church
In a clear and compelling way, Matthew records Christ's command that we pick up our cross as He did and follow Him on a path that leads...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 2, 20153 min read


An Instruction on Spiritual Leadership in Sacred Scripture
The primary purpose of 1 and 2 Timothy, as well as Titus, is to instruct bishops, priests, and deacons how to live. The teaching is...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 26, 20152 min read

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