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Meditating on the Feast of the Holy, Glorious, All-Laudable Apostle Thomas
According to Sacred Scripture, the holy Apostle Thomas did not believe the reports of the other disciples about the Resurrection of Jesus...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 6, 20151 min read


Meditating on The Protection of the Mother of God
The Protection of the Mother of God (Pokrov [Покров] in Russian or Skepi [Σκέπη] in Greek) is a feast day celebrating the appearance of...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 1, 20151 min read
No Greater Love Than This
For your understanding and use in prayer: John 15.8-17 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. ...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 25, 20151 min read


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

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