Category Archives: Daily devotionals

(A Spiritual Reflection for Good Friday – April 18, 2025) Psalm 22, verse by verse, reveals the heart of a man crying out from the darkness. What hurts him most isn’t just the things that come from outside — the insults, the mockery, not even the physical wounds. What cuts the deepest is the feeling of being abandoned. That there is no gaze to meet his. No hand to reach out and touch him. No voice to say, “I’m here.” A person can be hurt by words, attacked physically — but the deeper wound seems […]

A Spiritual Reflection for Holy Wednesday – April 16, 2025 In a powerful scene from one of the greatest Yugoslav films, Don’t Look Back, My Son (Ne okreći se, sine)—a film my generation watched countless times—a father sends his son running toward freedom. “Don’t look back!” he tells him, while he himself stays behind—sacrificing his life. The tension is real: the father dies, the son survives. That tension—between life and death, betrayal and faithfulness—echoes in today’s Scripture readings. In today’s Gospel (John 13:21–32), we witness another moment of deep tension: Another son—the son of perdition—Judas […]

Thoughts and Encouragements: Prayer is one of the most important spiritual disciplines, and perhaps the most important. Let me briefly compare building a spiritual life with building a house. Just as the binding material, mortar, holds all the elements of a building firmly together, so prayer permeates and connects everything that has been achieved through other spiritual disciplines. In the spiritual house that God builds in an individual, prayer is an irreplaceable means of communication. Through prayer, we talk to God and He talks to us. Although God has other ways He can speak to […]

Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which […]

Certainly, every body is like grass, all its glory like a wildflower: the grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord endures forever. 1 Peter 1:24-25 Man’s days are like hay, he blooms like a wildflower in the field; the wind barely touches it, and it’s gone, its place no longer remembers it. Psalm 103:15-16 The seven ancient Christian practices or disciplines, which directly come from Judaism and the teachings of the early church, stand firmly as indispensable guides to incorporating our faith into everyday life filled with human, psycho-physical activities. Each […]

Reading: Philippians 1:12-14 I want to tell you, brothers, that my current situation has actually helped the progress of the gospel. So it has become known among all the guards and others that I am in chains for the sake of Christ. Most of the brothers in the Lord, encouraged by my chains, now dare even more to preach God’s word. Reflection: Paul writes this passage from a Roman prison. In Philippians 1:13, he reveals that he is imprisoned for preaching the Gospel. The reason for his arrest was a violation of the command not […]

Reading: 1 Peter 1:17: If you call on the Father, who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your stay on earth. Reflection: Calling God our Father is both a privilege and a responsibility. God-fearing is associated with responsibility. Being God-fearing means living in accordance with God’s will, His revelation, and the calling we have received. It involves choosing to always do good, in every moment and decision. However, many times we may not feel capable of being the kind of good we desire to be, and […]