Tonight at 7:30pm EST via Zoom!! - On Psalmody and Prayer and the orderliness with which they are done. Look forward to seeing you all again!

Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Charbel as an example of holiness.

Help us to imitate the holiness he showed throughout his lifetime and the devotion he inspired in others after his death.

St. Charbel, you lived out your life as a monk and a priest with faithfulness

May 20th - The holy martyr Thaleleus at Agea in Cilicia. Born in Lebanon in the third century, St. Thaleleus was an eighteen-year-old fair haired young man, training to be a physician. He courageously confessed Christ as God. After several attempts to execute the martyr, he was

Glory to You, King, God almighty, for through Your divine and loving providence You have made me, the sinner and unworthy one, to rise from sleep and obtain entrance into Your holy house. Accept, Lord, also the voice of my prayer as You accept those of Your holy and noetic

And yet, while we can say that all life within the world is sustained by the Spirit, by his energy that has long remained, and often still is, anonymous, this life is still linked to death.
But ever since Christ's Resurrection, the personal source of this Spirit is henceforth

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Enemies have driven me into your embrace more than friends have.
Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.
Enemies have made me a

The Spirit kindles our hearts, revealing within us the 'eye of the heart,' the 'eye of fire' that discloses in each of us the image of God and, in all things, the “Burning bush' of the coming Christ. 'The eye through which I see God and the eye through which God sees me are one

When God bestows His favors on you, keep your secret to yourself, according to the advice of the prophet Isaias: ' My secret to myself, my secret to myself' (Isaias xxiv. 16), and seize every occasion to humble yourself. God reveals His sublime secrets only to those who are

The Lord leads those who adhere to Him with warm love and who devote their lives to Him toward perfection in different ways. He will even allow the enemy to act in a hostile manner, not withholding in this, however, His helpful right hand. Everything is from God. But His ways are

'He is with me, He who left the world behind. He is present in me, He who left His nature. He dwells in me, He who denied Himself. He is wholly for me, He who lost His life for me.' - Saint Ambrose of Milan

Do not be distressed if you do not at once receive from God what you ask. He wishes to give you something better -to make you persevere in your prayer. For what is better than to enjoy the love of God and to be in communion with Him?

Abba Evagrios the Solitary

Many are surprised at the simplicity of my ways and the strength of my divine tenderness. Nothing is skimpy, nothing is small when it is toiled over or suffered in union with me, I who draw all men and women to myself. The universal dimension is essential for every Christian,

O Lord Jesus Christ, enkindle the hearts of all thy priests with the fire of zealous love for Thee, that they may ever seek Thy glory; Give them strength that they may labor unceasingly in Thine earthly vineyard for the salvation of our souls and the glory of Thine All-Honorable

Grant us, Master, as we depart for sleep, rest for body and soul. Protect us from the gloom of sinful sleep and from all dark pleasures of the night. Calm the impulses of passion, and quench the fiery darts of evil which are treacherously cast against us. Check the turbulence of

Adversity is indeed terrible and miserable. But look at it again through another comparison, and despise it all the more. For slanders and insults and reproaches and mockeries on the part of enemies, and their evil plots, are compared to a worn out garment and moth-eaten wool

Monday at 7:30pm EST via Zoom - On Psalmody and Prayer and the orderliness with which they are done. Look forward to seeing you all again!

Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Charbel as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the holiness he showed throughout his lifetime and the devotion he inspired in others after his death.

St. Charbel, you lived out your life as a monk and a priest with faithfulness

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4