Pastoral Commentary – Why Children Suffer

“Father, father! How sorry I am for you!” Iliusha moaned bitterly….I know what the doctor said to you about me….Don’t cry, and when I die get a good boy, another one…call him Iliusha and love him instead of me…” “I don’t want a good boy!  I don’t want another boy!” the captain muttered in a wild…

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Pastoral Commentary – Fettered by Fear

By Priest Andrew Kencis Of all of the innumerable temptations that we have to wade through on the path to salvation, there is one facet or “bonding agent” that is common to all of them.   It is precisely that which weakens our resolve and allows thoughts contrary to what we know to be proper, according to…

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