An Ignored Heart is a Lost Heart

The Heart An Ignored Heart is a Lost Heart It is important that we direct all our thoughts, all our actions, and all our desires towards a burning love for God. Our heart must become inflamed with the love of God, and all our intellectual and emotional striving must be directed towards the development of …

During the Lenten Fast we must work for inner peace…

"During the Great Lenten Fast, each day brings on new challenges regarding the health of our soul. Trials and temptations, especially during this fast period, confront us. But we must struggle to bring about a peaceful heart, and bring forth the healing we need, that our soul gain spiritual strength. Reacting to another’s negativity does …

Internal Peace

Peace comes through a sincere belief in God’s presence and in His promises; it is not dependent on our feelings or sensations. Believe in His promises and rest in His peace today. Elder Sophrony Sakharov I was working with a dear friend on letting go of the attachment or attraction I have to the feelings …

How Marriage Changes When it is Sanctified in the Sacrament of Marriage in Church

  An unmarried marriage is a marriage, but Christ has not yet come to this marriage. When we marry people who have lived in a marriage for many years, who gave birth and raised children, we say to them: “You were a husband and a wife until today, and now you have become a husband …

Praying for our departed loved ones.

With the Saints give rest O Lord, to the souls of they servants! For in Thee have we placed our hope, O our Creator and Fashioner and God! When I look back at what it took for my Italian Grandfather, Pietro, to bring his family to America in 1921, for a better life and how …

New Kontakion for St. Veronica

In honor of my new calendar Names's Day for St. Veronica July 12/25, I am posting her new knotakion and a story from her new book I just published with the blessing of Bishop Benjamin. Holy Mother Veronica pray to God for us! Kontakion: Tone 5 O radiant star in the heavenly realm! O glory …

St. Veronica Life and Liturgical Service, A New Book Release, June 2018

Saint Veronica An Eastern Orthodox Historical Overview and Liturgical Service $11.95 Softcover/full color interior Order a Book Blessed by Bishop Benjamin, OCA Passage from the Liturgical Services of this book: Vespers Lord I have cried, Tone 8  A woman with an issue of blood, who had suffered much and spent all she had on physicians, …

Faith and the Temptations and Trails we face… St. Maximos the Confessor

We often use or hear the word "trial" or "temptation", which appears, for example in the Lords Prayer, and in many spiritual writings of the Church. What do we mean by this word? The trial is anything that leads us to a difficult place or to a crisis; it is anything that places pressure or …

Living One Life Fully vs. Believing in Reincarnation

What must grow and change in us while on earth to merit Heaven? “The hereafter provides no more opportunities for change. So this leaves our life on earth as the only time during which changes possible. St. Paul says, ’Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation’.” (I Cor. 6:12) …

St. Seraphim Orthodox Church Hosts Veronica Hughes for Book Event

Link to a short Video from Book Event with Veronica Hughes, Jan. 25 2012 Pearl of Great Price Please join us for a "Book Event" at 7 PM, on Wednesday, January 25. Author Veronica Hughes will be here to speak on her book "Pearl of Great Price" which chronicles her journey from disillusioned baby-boomer Roman …