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What Will You Do with Your Wounded Love?
Wounded love is desperate for a path. A barren one beset with noise and fear or A fertile one overflowing with lucidity and quietude One...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
7 days ago1 min read


Resurrection: The Everlasting Gift of Love (Homily)
Do not be like the soldiers who denied what they saw at the Tomb. Instead, be like the women who saw and heard the Resurrected Jesus, who...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 201 min read


A Week that Changed the World (Homily)
In the six days from Lazarus Saturday to Great and Holy Friday, we witness two deaths that explain the work of God and the destiny of...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 181 min read


Exposed
Damaged Dismissed Abused and Alone Love was the last to arrive and the First to go Beaten Broken Crushed and Chaotic Life as lying Deceit...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Apr 171 min read


St. Paul the Simple Pray for Me
My Dearest Paul, I have loved, respected, and admired you for many years. But ever since I visited your desert home, I have felt such a...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Mar 71 min read


Ferocious Desolation
Mountains call me Deserts too And don't forget about the oceans It's their clarity, I suppose Rock Sand Water Reaching upward and outward...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Feb 151 min read


Silence in God's Presence Fills You with Love (Homily)
God loves you and wants to meet with you in prayer. This and many other spiritual lessons can be found in the Gospel (Luke 18:10-14) from...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Feb 91 min read


Discerning the Will of God (Homily)
In this homily from 12 January (Sunday after Theophany/Epiphany), Fr. Thomas explains the spiritual necessity and psychological...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 121 min read


Deliver those Abused in Marriage, St. Thomais of Lesvos
My Dear St. Thomais of Lesvos, you were pressured by your parents to marry and brutalized by your husband every day for 13 years (she...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 31 min read


2025: You Can do This!
Life is hard But God is good And you are strong. Pray. Confess. Get anointed. And receive the Eucharist. Live faith Have hope, and Share...

Fr. Thomas Colyandro
Jan 11 min read

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