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One of the greatest frustrations in my spiritual life has been caused by a passion for certainty. You might call it a need to know, a need to know what God is doing in my life, a need to have some explanation for or feeling for why my life is the way it is right now. When I don’t know—or when I don’t have some explanation that I can tell myself is the reason why things are happening to me and around me the way they are happening—if I don’t have something I can say to myself that gives reason and explanation to the pain and apparent arbitrariness of my experience, then because I don’t know, I have a great deal of inner turmoil. And it often happens that the inner turmoil of not knowing—or not thinking that I know—why things are the way they are or what God is doing in my life and in the lives of those around me through the painful, unfair and unbearable circumstances I or we are experiencing, the pain of this not knowing is more tormenting than the actual suffering I experience from the circumstance.

Spiritual Letters is a collection of letters written in the early part of the twentieth century by a Roman Catholic priest—and I highly recommend it to English speaking Orthodox Christians who want to be encouraged in prayer.

Fr. Stephen begins his study of the Gospel of Luke with chapter 1, verse 1.

Fr. Stephen continues the study of Luke, at chapter 1, verse 39.

Fr. Stephen concludes Luke, Chapter 1, and begins Chapter 2.

Fr. Stephen continues through Luke 2.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 2.

Fr. Stephen begins the study of Luke 3.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 3.

Fr. Stephen begins the study of Luke, Chapter 4.

Fr. Stephen concludes the study of Luke, Chapter 4.

Fr. Stephen begins the study of Luke 5.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 5.

Fr. Stephen begins the study of Luke 6.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 6.

Fr. Stephen begins the discussion of Luke 7.

Fr. Stephen continues the study of Luke 7.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 7.

Fr. Stephen begins the discussion of Luke 8.

Fr. Stephen continues his discussion of Luke 8.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion of Luke 8.

Fr. Stephen begins the discussion on Luke, chapter 9.

Fr. Stephen continues discussing Luke, Chapter 9.

Fr. Stephen wraps up the discussion on Luke, Chapter 9, and begins discussing Chapter 10

Fr. Stephen continues his discussion of Luke, chapter 10.

Fr. Stephen finishes his discussion on Luke, Chapter 10

Fr. Stephen begins a discussion of Luke 11, including the Lord's Prayer.

Fr. Stephen continues the discussion of Luke 11.

Fr. Stephen concludes the discussion of Luke 11 and begins Luke 12.

Fr. Stephen concludes the discussion of Luke 12.

Fr. Stephen begins discussing Luke 13.

Fr. Stephen concludes chapter 13 and begins discussing chapter 14.

Fr Stephen wraps up Luke 14 and discusses Luke 15.

Fr. Stephen concludes discussing chapter 15, and begins Luke, chapter 16.

Fr. Stephen concludes the study of Luke 16.

Fr. Stephen begins discussing Luke, Chapter 17

Fr. Stephen continues Luke, Chapter 17.

Fr. Stephen finishes discussing Chapter 17, and begins Chapter 18

Fr. Stephen continues the discussion of Luke, chapter 18.

Fr. Stephen concludes the discusion of chapter 18, and begins 19.

Fr. Stephen discusses Luke 19:29-44.

Fr. Stephen finishes with the discussion of Luke 19 and begins Luke 20.

Fr. Stephen wraps up his discussion on chapter 20, and begins chapter 21.

Fr. Stephen wraps up his discussion of Luke, Chapter 21.

Fr. Stephen begins his discussion of Luke, Chapter 22.

Fr. Stephen finishes commentating on Luke, Chapter 22.

Fr. Stephen begins discussing Luke, Chapter 23 and the Crucifixion of Christ.

Fr. Stephen finishes his discussion of the Gospel of Luke.

Fr. Stephen begins discussing the Gospel according to John.