Christ Is Risen! Let us sing: Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen. What joy! What happiness! What a celebration! Words fail. Songs...
On this Holy Friday: Let us pray to the Lord, O God and Father: How can the light of the sun pierce the terrible darkness of this day and its events? Your only Son, the true light, in the darkness of his ordeal, was pleased to embrace in his humanity the...
On this Holy Thursday: Let us pray to the Lord, O you whose love for us is eternal and unchanging: Today, as your Son reclined at table with his chosen friends, he gave them the mysteries of his life-giving love for us, to be present forever on the altars of his...
On this Holy Wednesday: Let us pray to the Lord, O Lord who, in Your mercies and bounties, heals the disorders of our souls and bodies, do, the same Master, sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from...
On this Holy Tuesday: Let us pray to the Lord. O you who observe all things with your eye that never sleeps, who afford us such saving lessons in your desire to grant mercy to all who seek it: We give thanks to you for raising us from bed and sleep...
On this Holy Monday: Let us pray to the Lord, O you who observe all things with your eye that never sleeps, who afford us such saving lessons in your desire to grant mercy to all who seek it: We give you thanks for this evening that brings us before you...
St. Paul called the Word of God a "two-edged" sword. In other words, the Word of God cuts both ways. It gives life and it strikes down darkness. Just as the surgeon's knife wounds AND heals, so the wisdom of God wounds me and heals me all at the...
You've met people like this before. You know the ones that I mean. They are the folks who seem to always have a comeback for anything you say. "It's a cloudy day today." "Yes, but the sun will be shining soon." They are so positive it makes you sick...
There's always a struggle inside of us over what we know we should do and be and what we actually do and how we actually are. It's called cognitive dissonance. That's when what we think and what we do are in such conflict that it creates discomfort for us....
At every Vespers service I am blessed to say the prayer of St. Simeon: "Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and...
