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Forgive, Love, and Use Your Gifts (Homily)
Today, we are reminded that despite the darkness of sin and the lack of understanding that it creates, we are given what we need to know and to use our God-given gifts, to seek and to share love, and to give and to receive forgiveness. If you have a question or prayer request, please reach out here . If you can help, please click here .

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 111 min read


Seek Peace Through Mercy, Hope, and Love (Homily)
You have eyes that see and ears that hear. Use them! Experience the glory of God in your life by remembering that whatever is wrong in the world (and there is a lot!), God loves us, forgives us, leads us, and offers us eternity in the kingdom to come. So, seek peace by praising and serving God and treating one another with joy, forgiveness, mercy, hope, and love. If you have a question or a prayer request, please reach out here . If you can, please donate by clicking here .

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Dec 25, 20251 min read


Waking Up to Hope and Dread
When I wake up in the morning, I experience In equal amounts, Hope and dread. The hope comes from the Expansiveness of the Eternal and the Depths of the Divine, both of which Comfortably make a home in the depths of my soul. The dread comes from the Depraved diabolism and the Maleficent machinations that Perniciously taunt me through the windows of my soul. The former is a pure gift given Despite my sin Separate from my failures and Filled with forgiveness. The latter is an o

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Dec 10, 20251 min read


Holy Spirit Mondays: Regret and Renewal
Each week I send a short reflection to help you deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you have a question or a prayer request, please reach out here . Read : "By the Holy Spirit all creation is renewed and thus returns to its first state" (Matins, Antiphon 2, 7 Dec 25). Ponder : How much do you reflect on the past and present? Do you wish things were different? Does that make you feel regret? How often? Daily? Weekly? Think about it. If you are like most people, y

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Dec 8, 20252 min read


Holy Spirit Mondays: Fire and Forgiveness
Each week I send a short email to help you deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you have a question or a prayer request, please reach out here . Read : "O radiant children of the Church, receive the fiery dew of the Spirit, the cleansing of sins which brings deliverance; for now from Sion has the law gone forth: the grace of the Spirit in tongues of fire" ( Canon to the Divine, Worshipful & All-Holy Spirit, the Paraclete , St. Maximos the Greek, Ode 5, Irmos). Po

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 27, 20252 min read


Holy Spirit Mondays: Rescue Me!
Each week I send a short email to help you deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you have a question or a prayer request, please reach out here . Read : I have "fallen into grievous perils ... I am... beset by perplexity ... and falling into diverse misfortunes ... like a boat upon the waves of the sea I am bestormed. O all-good Comforter, quickly rescue me from this grievous battering..." (Ode 6, "A Canon to the Holy Spirit" by St. Maximos the Greek). Ponder : Ar

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Oct 13, 20251 min read


Holy Spirit Mondays: Evil Hunts Us
Each week I send a short email to help you deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you have a question or a prayer request,...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Sep 29, 20251 min read


Forgiveness is Tied to Spiritual Growth (Homily)
We are called to seek forgiveness, not only as an exercise of humility and obedience toward God, but also as a deep desire to be healed....

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Aug 24, 20251 min read


Jesus Restores and Saves Us (Homily)
On Lazarus Saturday, we re-discover how Jesus mourns the death of His friend only six days before His own death. We hear how He chooses...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 12, 20251 min read


What do you treasure? (Homily)
Now that Great Lent is upon us, let us learn to love God with complete abandon. Let us focus on God's will for our lives. Let us put an...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Mar 2, 20251 min read

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