Healing Through Forgiveness

27/10/2025

This is the journey of healing in a nutshell; forgiveness is our way of learning to love.
The Healing Through Forgiveness group starts today, and is open for enrollment until November 1st. For more information, please go here: www.passionforhealing.com/forgoveness/

When a person decides to love God more than themselves, their healing begins. All the pains, all the fears, all the shame that have kept them bound slowly loosen, because true love melts chains. We cannot truly love our neighbor unless we first allow ourselves to be loved by God. And to allow oneself to be loved means to humble oneself, to acknowledge one’s weaknesses, and to stop running away from oneself. Instead of punishing ourselves for our wounds, let us bring them to Christ. He does not scold us; He washes us with tears and restores to us the joy of being alive. Prayer is nothing else but this sigh toward Love, toward Truth, toward Home.

-Mother Siluana

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30/09/2025

From the book Daily Readings with St. Sofian, September 29:

Duplicity or hypocrisy is an oblique fight against truth and sincerity. The passion or sin of hypocrisy, which unfortunately many of us practice, is also called “natural cleverness.” But the root of this cleverness is cunning, and its fruits are lies, deceptions, guile, dishonesty, remembrance of evil, hateful and hidden slander – which all suck and dry up the blood of love for the others. The one who inspires and fosters this state of inner malice is the evil and deceitful spirit himself.

24/09/2025

Inspired by the words of my first spiritual father, newly canonized St. Sofian, I am starting a new Healing Through Forgiveness group. It is based on Mother Siluana's work, with additions I made based on the previous participants' struggles, with the intention to support everyone in finishing it successfully.

Into your deep heart, where God awaits. Healing through Forgiveness Sign Up for Course Forgiveness is not the end, but the beginning of the love you long for. From wounds, to truth, to decision, to God Where you learn to love. Transform your life. Heal the wounds of your heart. Restore your relation...

16/01/2025

About SUFFERING

from St. Sofian's daily readings soon to be published by St. George Press:

God expressly leaves the suffering and sorrows that everyone is afraid of in our lives so they can humanize us, model us, and make us better, more honest, more tolerant, and maybe understanding of other people’s suffering. The one who does not suffer does not believe another…”Who hasn’t tasted bitterness does not know what sugar is.”

Suffering is allowed precisely like a chisel in the hands of a skillful sculptor who models a portrait or a very valuable object out of marble or stone. This is what God wants to do with those He loves. Suffering is thus allowed like medicine or surgery on a dying body, from which some members need to be amputated so it can be saved. We are all faced in life with troubles, sorrows, disappointments, hate, envy, dishonor, mocking, and malice from our fellow human beings; we are faced with illness, old age, and death. Every suffering is difficult and unpleasant because it is a defeat of our own will and plans, an obstacle placed across the path we have chosen.

Some people, when faced with suffering and sorrows, revolt, grind their teeth, strike back, curse, use insults, rebel even against God, blaspheming and swearing, asking, without humility and filled with anger, why they suffer. Such people, who do not admit their own transgressions and sins, are similar to the evil thief on Golgotha. We are all like this, we who revolt against the suffering God allows to come over us. Their revolt, instead of helping them and alleviating their pain, instead of chiseling and modeling them, deepens their suffering even more and isolates them from God and other people.

There are people who, when confronted with severe illnesses, defeats, woundings, humiliations, and losses of every kind, instead of revolting, cursing, or taking revenge, they take stock, look at themselves, and, to the question “Why do I suffer?”, find answers in their own abuse and sins committed against others and God Himself. This way, by admitting their sins, being sorry for committing them, repenting in the depths of their conscience, and resolving not to commit these sins anymore, they see a profound change in their lives.

08/12/2024

From the book
365 Mornings with Mother Siluana, short daily readings - inspiration and support for any time and any situation.

December 8

Yes, you are alone, but only by owning this aloneness, the aloneness on your cross, will you stop being alone. And you are already not alone. He is there too, and with Him, I am too, and we are too, all those around you…He Who gave us the commandment to forgive and bless and love, also gave us the power to do this for ourselves. Out of love! When we taste this—because we do not yet have the necessary organ for understanding it—we will be able to say: “Yes, joy has come through the cross!”

Why “365 Mornings with Mother Siluana”? Why did we choose this title? Mother Siluana loved the morning hours. When I met her in the summer of 2001, one of the first things she talked to me about was the joy of a morning spent with the Lord — the early morning, when the sun had not risen yet, w...

27/10/2024

A soothing word from the book 365 Mornings with Mother Siluana for today, October 27

God does not count how many times we fall, but how many times we get up. Many Orthodox faithful lose the blessed joy and the peace of their hearts because they are disappointed that God does not heal them in a few hours or days! God, as you have seen, gives grace richly from the first moment we return to Him, but we need to work with care and diligence with this grace so that it can be inscribed in our body and soul, in our cells and synapses, so that we can obtain the way of being of God incarnate. This is achieved with goodwill, with patience, and in time. This is why God gave us time, so that we could answer His love with our bodies. Now, our souls are resurrected through Baptism and nourished with grace upon grace through the Holy Sacraments, Church services, and prayer. But our bodies need to embody the way of being of grace, and then they will shine with the glory of the Lord’s victory at the General Resurrection. And even now, we can see gradual changes, achieved through asceticism, patience, and trust.

18/10/2024

New release:

Why “365 Mornings with Mother Siluana”? Why did we choose this title? Mother Siluana loved the morning hours. When I met her in the summer of 2001, one of the first things she talked to me about was the joy of a morning spent with the Lord — the early morning, when the sun had not risen yet, w...

14/10/2024

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11/10/2024

Yes, you have lost a long period of your life without joy! But even five minutes of blessed joy will be enough for you to understand what the Gift of God for us is, and that this Gift does not depend on our earthly “fate,” but can be experienced even from here, in these conditions; what is more, these conditions change when we enter into His joy! In this understanding and acceptance of grace, you will re-experience everything in a different light, and your entire life will be effectively redeemed from the power of the curse of the law of causality.

Please dare to do this! Humble yourself a bit, cast off any thoughts, and do what the Lord teaches you!

Dear people! Would I be able to shout at you to seek joy if it were only an illusion?
Mother Siluana

Excerpt from a new book of m. Siluana, to be released by St. George press by the end of this month.

24/09/2024

Do not be polite with God! Show Him your heart!

Fr. Rafail Noica

15/09/2024

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Homily on the Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross