Prayer
Let us Always Pray:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
The above is Revised Standard Version.
Bible Reading
CHARITIES
Prayer is always possible for everyone, rich and poor, noble and simple, strong and weak, healthy and suffering, righteous and sinful. The power of prayer is great. Above all, it brings the spirit of God. –St. Seraphim
Without Prayer, there is no Spiritual Life!
In a Book Written
By Rt. Rev. Protopresbyter
Peter G. Kohanik
(Published in 1948)
O Lord and Master of my life: take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power and idle talk.
But grant 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 blessed art Thou unto ages of ages. Amen.
...and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Matt 28:20
“Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer if you say it from your heart. God hears each word and weighs it in a balance. Sometimes, it seems to us that our words only strike the air in vain, and sound as a voice of one crying in the wilderness, No, no it is not so!... The Lord responds to every desire of the heart, expressed in words or unexpressed.”
St. John of Kronstadt - “My Life in Christ”
We do not know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.
As a peace loving and free democratic nation of the United States of America, we are more blessed by God than any other nation in the world only because our universal and steadfast belief and trust in the true God, Who sits enthroned as everlasting King (Jeremiah 10:7-010).
We openly and instructively admit and recognize this most important fact since 1864, that is during the last 83 years. On November 30, 1861, our Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, addressed a letter to the director of the mint, at Philadelphia, with the statement that “no nation can be strong, except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest words possible this national recognition. The motto chosen for this purpose was: “IN GOD WE TRUST.” These words first appeared on United States of America coins in 1864, when America was in the throes of the Civil War.
Since then, the United States Government has been doing a great missionary work by sending out from its mints millions upon millions of silent messengers bearing not only to its own citizens, but to all the world as well, the inspiring words: “IN GOD WE TRUST.” Take any penny, nickel, dime, quarter, or fifty (50) cent coins and you will see embossed on them this inspiring motto.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.” (Heb. 11:6)
"In God We Trust!"
