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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


The Christian Motive for Monasticism
As Archpriest Georges Florovsky explains, Jesus modeled all of the actions and qualities that the earliest monks tried to emulate. In a...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 20, 20155 min read


Objections to Monasticism
In the middle of the fourth century, primarily male Egyptian peasants were leaving their village homes to settle in the desert where they...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 19, 20155 min read
A Prayer for a Home Troubled by Evil Spirits
Let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy. Oh God of our salvation, Son of the living God, Who is borne on the Cherubim, being above all...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 15, 20152 min read
Inflict Anguish on the Evil One
"We are aware of the torment that the enemy frequently inflicts upon us visibly or invisibly. But we do not perceive the torment and...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 14, 20151 min read
A Prayer for Every Kind of Illness
O Almighty Master, Physician of souls and bodies, Who humbleth and raiseth up, Who chasteneth and again healeth: as Thou art merciful, do...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 13, 20151 min read

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