- Letter to prisoners: The Most important Stuff - Prayer, then Prayer, then Prayer, and a lot more. (HTML format)
2014-10-25
SYNOPSIS:A letter to prisoners, covering a multitude of topics: The Most important Stuff - Prayer, then Prayer, then Prayer.
Prayer of St Ephrem to the Saints for intercession
St Ephrem - Psalm 27 - Do NOT LOSE HEART. There is hope AND IT IS CHRIST.
Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the Wilderness
Why Memorize Scripture?
Darkness and Light
Our Salvation is very near.
On Fasting
- Letter to Prisoners: The Communion of the Saints. Hieromartyr Lucian of Antioch Longinus the Centurion, who stood at the cross Holy Prophet Hosea The Sermon on the Mount The Beatitudes (HTML format)
Matthew 5:1-12
2014-10-30
SYNOPSIS:A letter sent to inmates of a Texas prison. The main topic was how Orthodox celebrate feasts, and the Twelve days of Christmas, plus some gleanings from the Holy Fathers on Nativity.
- Purpose of Great Lent. Forgiveness Sunday. We are going to do violence now. Why do we fast? Pastoral Letter to Prisoners. (HTML format)
2015-02-21
- Excerpts from letters to prisoners. Holy Week, 2015. The Purpose of Life & The Image and likeness of God . Confessing the same stuff over and over. FIGHT! (HTML format)
2015-04-09
SYNOPSIS:Excerpts from letters to prisoners. Holy Week, 2015
The Purpose of Life
The Image and likeness of God
Confessing the same stuff over and over.
FIGHT!
Why were Zacharias and Elizabeth childless?
Life is simple.
A New Commandment
Troubles and the Medicine of Immortality
Fighting Thoughts
Behold the man! What is truth! Holy Week - Holy Friday - At the tomb John 18:38; John 19:5
- Letter to prisoners. The Most important life skill. O Heavenly King. The Jesus Prayer. (HTML format)
2015-06-23
- Letter to Prisoners. Catechumen service explained. Exorcisms, Renunciations, Affirmations, The Creed. Disposition (HTML format)
2015-09-23
SYNOPSIS:A letter written when on a spiritual retreat on a ranch in Indian Creek, Almost heaven, West Texas... I am preparing several men for baptism. Important information about the Catechumen service, the exorcisms. Why the Creed is important. Our disposition determines everything
- Prison Ministry Update. 90% of life is just showing up. Whatever crosses your path. (HTML format)
Prison Ministry Update
2015-09-30
SYNOPSIS:Taken from a letter to a prison ministry donor, an exposition of our Prison Ministry philosophy and comprehensive update of our present status.
- What is sin? Confession of sins is a skill. (HTML format)
2015-10-19
SYNOPSIS:Letter written to prepare a person for reception into the church. What is sin? Confession of sins is a skill.
- Prison Ministry (HTML format)
2015-11-07
- Three letters from prisoners about how Orthodoxy has influenced them. (HTML format)
2016-01-29
SYNOPSIS:Three letters written by prisoners about how the Orthodox prison ministry has influenced them. Also a letter to a prisoner that is mundane in details but illustrates and important point: most of our ministry is just communication (90% of life is just showing up, or in the case of prison ministry, writing and showing up)! We finish with some gleanings from the Holy Fathers, which are usually at the end of each letter.
- Three letters from prisoners about how Orthodoxy has influenced them. (HTML format)
2016-01-29
SYNOPSIS:Three letters written by prisoners about how the Orthodox prison ministry has influenced them. Also a letter to a prisoner that is mundane in details but illustrates and important point: most of our ministry is just communication (90% of life is just showing up, or in the case of prison ministry, writing and showing up)! We finish with some gleanings from the Holy Fathers, which are usually at the end of each letter.
- Anger, prayer and dynamite! How to lengthen the fuse. Letter to a prisoner. (HTML format)
2016-02-04
SYNOPSIS:Letter written to a prisoner about anger. There is a technique to control that works. Explaining it involves prayer, and dynamite.
- Prison Ministry (HTML format)
Purpose Of Great Lent
Prayer Of St Ephrem Explained Presanctified Liturgy
2016-03-03
- What is a catechumen? The Symbol of Faith. A question for all Christians who believe in the Bible and the Holy Trinity (HTML format)
2016-04-04
SYNOPSIS:Letter to a prisoner. Answering questions from his sister.
- Depression, hopelessness, helplessness. How to fight our thoughts. Catechetical Questions. Letter to a prisoner (HTML format)
2016-04-08
SYNOPSIS:A letter to a prisoner, addressing his personal concerns and also discussing how to battle bad thoughts and how meanness and abuse is a great temptation for a Christian. Also some catechetical questions.
- Letter to a prisoner. Coarseness of life, the unhappiness of prison, and prayer. Mary of Egypt Shows Us How to Repent. How to Cultivate a Repentant Spirit (HTML format)
2016-04-18
SYNOPSIS:Letter to a prisoner. Parable of the laborers in the Vineyard. No regrets in paradise.
SYNOPSIS:Letter to a prisoner: Why do we omit O Heavenly King from Pascha until Pentecost? What is the ministry of the Holy Spirit? The Symbol of Faith - Introduction. Introductory Questions about the symbol of Faith.
SYNOPSIS:Letter to a prisoner. When a person feels abandoned by God. Parable of the Good - Samaritan. The sin of Onan and wishful thinking. Transfiguration - Human nature in the Midst of the Divine
SYNOPSIS:Letter to a prisoner. What do we do when we feel separated, abandoned, lonely? Prayer for others, and for the dead. The Prayer of the Trisagion (Liturgy of Saint James), Prayer of St Silouan of Mount Athos:, To pray for someone more diligently:,Prayer is a painful and bloody struggle. By Elder Ephraim of Katounakia. ,Elder Ephraim of Katounakia on the Priesthood,Two Kinds of Gladness,stuff from Elder Porphyrios,From the Talmud,Misc memes with NB quotes.
- Prison Ministry (Word DOC format)
Homosexuality In Context
2016-09-29
- About complaining about our problems. (HTML format)
2016-09-29
SYNOPSIS:A little bit about complaining about our problems, and the ONLY way to stop doing it. Part of a letter to a prisoner.