Election Day Prayer
Lord, This election season is over. All that remains is for voters to cast their ballots. Let wisdom guide them. It is the end after a long season. What has bee...
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Memorial Day Prayer
Gracious God, on this Memorial Day weekend, we remember and give thanks for those who have given their lives in the service of our country. When the need was gr...
A Prayer for Our Country on Election Day
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor ...
A Winter Solstice Prayer
A Winter Solstice Prayer by Edward Hays from Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim The dark shadow of space leans over us. . . . . We are mindful that the darkness of...
Some Thoughts in the Aftermath of Charleston
How do you begin to try and make sense out of something that is so senseless? Where do you start? I usually begin with prayer but today I am finding the words...
Great Lent is Upon Us
The weeks prior to the start of Great Lent are all about preparing us for what is to come. I always like to say that in the Orthodox Church we prepare to prepa...
Morning Prayer
Lord grant me to greet the coming day in peace. Help me in all things to rely upon Your holy will. In every hour of the day reveal your will to me. Bless...
Prayers for Enemies
In 1941, with the German occupation of Yugoslavia, Bishop Nikolai, together with Patriarch Gabriel Dozhich, was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in the in...
Prayer at the First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774 at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Peyton Randolph of Virginia called into session delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies, Geor...
Silence in Liturgy
When I first started to attend services at the Benedictine Monastery I would eventually call home, I was taken aback by the silence during the services. It see...