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I have the same prayer request. A couple of months ago my best friend left me and now I am trying to start my life over, struggling against thoughts of despondency and experiencing emptiness. If you want to know my story, you can read it here: A story about personal life and love drama
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“Do not think that you will easily exploit my frailty, turning me to wickedness and impiety by your enticements. Although I am a woman by nature, by heart is more manly than yours, and the power of my faith is greater than any power you possess."
- Virgin-martyr Euphemia, † 16 September 303...
Being born into a wealthy family of governor of Tyre,
They destined you to be the priestess of the pagan gods.
But in the solitude you burned with love for the Creator like a fire,
From lofty dwelling-place beholding nature, traces of Unknown God.
You smashed the idols of your fearsome father...
There was in Antioch a holy martyr,
Who glorified the Holy Trinity on earth.
She beat the devil in the prison of the prefect’s quarter,
She’s young Marina, virgin of great worth.
Deprived of mother in the age of infant,
But raised by wet-nurse in the holy faith,
Your father, hearing ‘Christ,’...
For a Christian ending to our lives, painless, blameless, peaceful; and for a good defense before the dread judgement seat of Christ, let us pray unto the Lord.
Poem for two saints who both are named Thais of Egypt. Their life story is quite similar with some differences.
Praise be to God for you, o Saint Thais!
You have rejected sin through ardent penance,
Acquiring purity and virtue as it is,
Through narrow path of vigilant repentance.
And burning...
Praise be to God for you, o virgin-martyr Parasceva,
You bravely faced the Antoninus’ wrath.
Praiseworthy champion of Christian era,
You’ve defeated Lucifer, the enemy of God
You are the pious daughter of God-fearing parents,
Who championed the cause of the poor.
They passed you love for virtue...
Yes, we share many saints of the 1-st millennium. We had a common history until 1054, when a quarrel happened between the two of the five heads of the Christian church. But the separation worsened after 1204, the fourth crusade and fall of Constantinople.
Rejoice, Irene, fair-looking holy virgin-martyr,
Your preaching turned so many godless unto Christ.
His message moved the worldly masses into upstir,
Since foolishness for them was the Messiah's Cross.
Accompanied by thirteen fellow virgins in tranquility of pillar,
In luxury you lived...
Saint Anastasia
How great is God in life of saint Anastasía!
Whose heroism defeated vicious pride of Ulpian.
Praiseworthy is her Needy’s Care with friend Theodotía,
As well as Christian martyrdom by will of Diocletian.
You blossomed up as balmy, florid lily
In desert land of heathen and...
Also dedicated to my Russian friend Tatiana
Saint Tatiana
Hail, o thou holy virgin-martyr Tatiana,
Through you God shamed the proud jurist Ulpian,
Destroying idols, temples and the pagan priests,
Expelling devils in the reign of snooty king Severus Alexander.
A Christian raised you up, you...