Fr. Thomas Hopko

[katherine2001]

According to the updates posted by his daughter on Facebook, Fr. Tom is in a hospice home and is in his last hours. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

ugh....I hate to hear this. What a wonderful priest and holy man. God bless him and God comfort his family as well as all the listeners, readers, and students of his work. He's a treasure.

 

[katherine2001]

Yes, he is. He has congestive heart failure and has had for awhile. They say that he is at peace with it.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

It's too bad that this is killing him. There is SO MUCH they can do now to minimize or eliminate the congestive heart failure problem with Lasix and other water pills. CHF really is just the heart getting water-logged. My grandpa had it for years, and Lasix and some other meds kept it at bay. I wish there was something they could do for Father Hopko.

Yes, he is. He has congestive heart failure and has had for awhile. They say that he is at peace with it.

 

[truefiction1]

Lord have mercy.

 

[xenia]

Lord have mercy.

 

[buzuxi02]

Lord have mercy!

 

[Anhelyna]

Prayers for Fr Thomas and his family as they all support him at this time

 

[tapi]

Lord have mercy!

 

[RobNJ]

Lord have mercy

 

[rusmeister]

Lord, have mercy!

 

[Gxg (G²)]

According to the updates posted by his daughter on Facebook, Fr. Tom is in a hospice home and is in his last hours. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

Lord Have Mercy...

I had no idea that was going on

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Lord have mercy!

Mary

 

[~Anastasia~]

According to the updates posted by his daughter on Facebook, Fr. Tom is in a hospice home and is in his last hours. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

Thank you for the update, though that is really saddening. I thought he was stable, and improving.

Lord have mercy ...

The man is such a blessing to so many.

 

[Lukaris]

Lord, have mercy!

 

[gzt]

Updates can also be found here: Blog

 

[ArmyMatt]

Lord have mercy!

 

[rusmeister]

Updates can also be found here: Blog

That site is blocked in Russia for some reason. I can't see it.

 

[Damaris]

That site is blocked in Russia for some reason. I can't see it.

Here is the latest post for you, Rus:

From Matushka Anne

Posted by Juliana on March 16, 2015 at 2:25 PM
Matushka Anne relays that everything is more peaceful than ever this early afternoon. The hospice staff is doing less for Fr. Thomas today because it's not necessary any more. He is breathing very quietly, a bit shallow, but not at all labored....and SO peaceful.Thank the Lord!
She and Fr. John (first-born Hopko) would like to share this prayer that was shared with them:

PRAYER FOR ONE PREPARING TO YIELD HIS BODY​

O Lord, our heavenly Father, through your only-begotten Son and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you have revealed to us that you are the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God, not of the dead, but of the living! For, you are the author of life, and did not will that we your creatures should endure death.

You have created us in your image, and in order to grow into your likeness, in the bliss of Paradise. But through the disobedience of our forefather Adam, we have been banished from Paradise into this world. Yet into this same world, where death now reigns, you have sent your Son to restore to life Adam and Eve, and their children’s children to all generations. Through the gifts of repentance, baptism, and the indwelling of your Holy Spirit, you bestow true life to all who put their hope in you in communion through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and who desire the knowledge of your truth.

When your Son healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, and raised the dead, he said to his disciples: you shall do greater things than these. To those who believe in him he thereby gave power over the dominion of death and over the powers that have kept your creature captive to death.

We, therefore, entreat your mercy and loving-kindness upon this your child Presbyter Thomas whose earthly body is now subdued by the bonds of this world. Your apostle Paul has taught that our earthly body is sown perishable, only to be raised a spiritual and imperishable body. Grant now, O Lord, the spiritual harvest promised to your servant Presbyter Thomas when his earthly body descended into the waters of baptism. As you have begun to raise him to newness of life in the Church which is the foretaste of your kingdom, so by the unworthy entreaties of us, your children and servants, receive from your child Presbyter Thomas this, his last offering of his corruptible earthly body, so that in turn he may receive from you the promised spiritual body, whole and incorruptible.

On the last Day, grant us who pray, to stand together with your servant Presbyter Thomas before your holy glory, and to receive the blessedness of your saints in your eternal kingdom, where there is no more striving or sorrow, but only the lightness and joy of innocent children.

To us who remain and have become as brothers and sisters of your servant Presbyter Thomas, grant true peace in the knowledge that “Death is overthrown and Christ God is risen!” Strengthen our communion with our brother Presbyter Thomas, that among your saints he may in turn entreat mercy for us who love him, and so may we all attain to that eternal joy of those who call upon your holy Name.

May the dark night of this present life now close for your child, Presbyter Thomas, and may he arise in the light of your glory. May your mercy descend upon him and so may his soul ascend to the dwellings of your saints. For glorified is your most-holy name, Father of heaven and earth, and that of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and of your heavenly and life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

 

[Kristos]

Lord have mercy!