Greetings on this Holy Monday. Today is week three of Maxim Mondays and Fr. Thomas Hopko's advice is: "Have a keepable rule of prayer that you do by discipline. You can’t just pray when you feel like it. You have to pray by discipline, the times of day where you would remember God and say …
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The Last Beatitude
This morning as I was doing some quiet, self-reflection I was reading a book that talked about using the Sermon on the Mount to help reflect on ones life. To reflect on what we might need to change in our lives to bring us closer to God, to grow spiritually. In the Eastern Orthodox Tradition …
Maxim Monday #2
Welcome to Maxim Monday week 2. Today we hear Fr. Thomas Hopko give us this advice about prayer: "Pray as you can, not as you think you must. Pray as God inspires you to pray, not as you want to, but as God gives. And for a Christian, that would mean in one’s heart, in …
