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I Am Third
“I Am Third” is a phrase that is posted in the office of our rector, Fr. Michael. It means that the Lord is first, others and second, and, well, I am third. It was coined by the foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate in Combermere, Ontario – the Servant of God, Catherine Doherty. The entire…
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55 Maxims
by Fr. Thomas Hopko Be always with Christ. Pray as you can, not as you want. Have a keepable rule of prayer that you do by discipline. Say the Lord’s Prayer several times a day. Have a short prayer that you constantly repeat when your mind is not occupied with other things. Make some prostrations…
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Please, Father, ask Christ…
The Divine Liturgy sustains the world! And we are so unworthy of it! There are priests who live this awesome Mystery at every Divine Liturgy. A priest once told me something that a very simple and good priest had once confessed to him, “I have such a hard time during the consuming of the Holy…
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Patriarch’s Priestly Vocation Born Under Communist Rule
From a recent interview by Zenit with Patriarch Sviatoslav: I grew up in a completely atheistic society where all forms of the transcendental were eliminated. We were taught that there is no God. The family, however, taught a different value and became the vehicle that transmitted the Christian faith. It was during these times that…
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Christ’s priesthood has its source not in man, but in the divine person and ministry of the Son of God
“Christ’s priesthood has its source not in man, but in the divine person and ministry of the Son of God. The priest is called to be a light ray of eternity in the interim, a living icon of the Savior’s presence among the people of God, the presence that throughout history the Church was a…