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Greatmartyr Eustáthios Placidas, with his Wife and Children, of Rome

09/20/2024

Before his Baptism, the Holy Great Martyr Eustáthios was named Plakidas (Πλακίδας). He was a Roman General in the reigns of Emperors Titus (79-81) and Trajan (98-117). Even before he came to know Christ, Plakidas devoted himself to charitable endeavors, helping the poor and destitute. Therefore, the Lord did not allow this virtuous pagan to continue in the darkness of idolatry. One day, while hunting in a forest, he saw a remarkable stag which stopped

Greatmartyr Eustáthios Placidas, with his wife and children, of Rome

09/20/2021

Parents’ Grief. Love and the Pain of Leaving. Remembering the Dead.

08/20/2020

Parents’ Grief Many parents have to suffer the death of a child, at birth or at a very young age. There probably is no greater suffering than losing a child, since it so radically interferes with the desire of a father and mother to see their child grow up to be a beautiful, healthy, mature, and loving person. The great danger is that the death of a child will take away the parents’ desire to

Marriage as a Lifetime of Suffering

09/27/2019

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, May 5, 2015 When couples come to ministers to talk about their marriage ceremonies, ministers think it’s interesting to ask if they love one another. What a stupid question! How would they know? A Christian marriage isn’t about whether you’re in love. Christian marriage is giving you the practice of fidelity over a lifetime in which you can look back upon the marriage and call it love. It is a hard

Dealing with Our Passions (Part VI)

09/04/2015

Another method of dealing with our thoughts and feelings, our passions and needs, consists in thinking them all the way through to the end, in picturing to ourselves all the consequences of admitting the passions into the imagination. In this way we can also discover which way the passions actually want to lead us. Sexual fantasies, for example, stand for something quite different, for the longing to be free, to let oneself fall, to be

The Destiny of Eros: The Nuptial Way (Part I)

01/24/2014

It is entirely fitting that the first revelation of the consubstantiality, the unity, of human nature, in the Bible should be in terms of marriage: ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,’ says the man when God brings the woman before him. And Genesis adds this comment on what marriage actually entails: ‘Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one

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Greatmartyr Eustáthios Placidas, with his Wife and Children, of Rome

Greatmartyr Eustáthios Placidas, with his wife and children, of Rome

Parents’ Grief. Love and the Pain of Leaving. Remembering the Dead.

Marriage as a Lifetime of Suffering

Dealing with Our Passions (Part VI)

The Destiny of Eros: The Nuptial Way (Part I)

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