My dear friend rpeeze informed me that Fr. Michael Rosco passed into eternal life this morning. Please continue to keep Pani Susan, Vlad, and the rest of the family in your prayers to give them strength during this trying time.
Thank you all for praying for Fr. Michael Rosco. Please continue keep him in your prayers, that God will rest his soul where there is no pain, nor sorrow, nor suffering, but life everlasting.
Memory Eternal Father Michael!
A Helper and a Protector has become salvation to me. This is my God, Whom I will glorify. God of my fathers I will exalt Him for in glory was He glorified. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
- Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, excerpt
Hello my dear! Christ is Risen!
I will pray for you, don’t worry. Just keep in mind that no matter how many difficulties you may find as an Orthodox Christian, it is totally worth it, I promise. It’s not going to be easy, others may reject you because of your Orthodoxy, they may even laugh at you or not accept you. Just keep your eyes focused in Jesus and His Cross, and everything will be just fine, He’ll help you with this difficult situation you face.
God bless you always! And don’t be sad or scared, because Christ is Risen! <3
Prayer is grace. God gives it when there exists zeal and humility… Let Christ not be missing from your heart.
- Elder Amphilochios of Patmos
You should have continual conversation with your guardian angel. About everything. Especially in difficulties and when you cannot get across to someone. He always helps.
-Eldress Gavrilia of Greece
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. Your Cross do we worship, O Christ, and Your holy Resurrection do we hymn and glorify. For You are our God, we know no other but You, we call upon Your name. Come all the faithful, let us worship the holy Resurrection of Christ; for behold through the Cross, joy has come in all the world. Ever blessing the Lord, we extol His Resurrection. For enduring the Cross for us, He destroyed death by death.
- A well-known and beloved prayer, recited in the Orthros service on Sundays and after Pascha
Some days ago, I had asked for your prayers during Holy Week, as I am waiting an aswer from God at a very important issue for my life.
Please, wherever you are, stop and say a little prayer for me, that God will hear my prayers and He’ll reply…
God bless you all!
Sometimes during a lengthy prayer only a few minutes are really pleasing to God, and constitute true prayer, true service to Him. The chief thing in prayer is the nearness of the heart to God.
- St. John of Kronstadt
Hello my friend,
I will keep you in my prayers, and I ask the followers of the blog to do the same. Put your trust in Him, as He’s our only hope and strength.
God bless you always.
“Could you please pray for two friends of mine who are kind of going through some rough times? Their names are Brett and Chris.”
Submitted by jedimasterkirito
O my illustrious King and my God, to You alone I bow down and pray.
Flood into me, as a raging stream into thirsty sand.
Just flood me with Yourself, life-giving Water;
then grass will easily grow in the sand
and white lambs will graze in the grass.
Just flood into my parched soul,
my Life and my Salvation.
- St. Nikolas Velimirovich, “Prayers by the Lake”
Please, everyone, keep in your holy prayers Olive, that has an important prayer request:
“Hi there, I wanted to ask for a prayer request if that’s okay. My mother has my children and she is refusing to let me take them back or even see them. This is the most difficult thing I’ve ever been through in my whole life. Could you please mention me in your prayers and perhaps ask your followers to do the same? Thanks in advance, your friend Olive.”
My Sweetest Mother, Most Holy Theotokos, Panayia mou, please continue praying for me to your Son! Please continue helping me with everything, because I don’t have the strength to do it alone. I strongly need your intercessions..! May His Will be done, not mine.
All my hope I place in you, O Mother of God: keep me under your protection!
My beloved Saint Justin Popovic please pray for me <3
Of all lenten hymns and prayers, one short prayer can be termed the lenten prayer. Tradition ascribes it to one of the great teachers of spiritual life - St. Ephrem the Syrian. Here is its text:
O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother; For Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
This prayer is read twice at the end of each lenten service Monday through Friday (not on Saturdays and Sundays for, as we shall see later, the services of these days do not follow the lenten pattern). At the first reading, a prostration follows each petition. Then we all bow twelve times saying: “O God, cleanse me a sinner.” The entire prayer is repeated with one final prostration at the end.
