They Shall Not
Be Forgotten
This is not an organization. There is no staff. No warehouse. No institution behind the curtain. This is one person who had a business, burned it down, and decided to give whatever came next entirely to God — and see what that actually looks like when you mean it.
Why This Exists at All
I have built businesses before. I know how to make money. That is not what this is.
For a long time I built things and sold them and built again. I was good at it. And somewhere inside that cycle, a question kept returning that I could not answer: how do I give my work — actually give it — to God? Not just pray before bed. Not just go to church on Sunday. I mean the way a monk gives his life when he is tonsured. Everything.
I started a new business. It began to grow. And I made a decision I had been circling for years: I was going to stop building things to sell and start building something to give directly to God. That was the whole of it. Everything else followed from that one choice.
The day I decided — before I had done anything yet — was the best business day I had ever had. Months of revenue arrived at once. Then offers to buy the business started coming. I sat with it. I prayed over it. And I came to believe the timing was not coincidental. I had made a decision before God, and every reason in the world to reverse it had arrived at exactly that moment. I thanked the people who reached out. I turned them down. I deleted the website.
What followed was not a season of peace and confirmation. What followed was one of the hardest periods of my life. My wife and I both felt the weight of it. The ground became uncertain. Things moved slowly. Looking back, I now recognize what it was: the dark night of the soul, which many of the saints describe as the thing that often follows a real act of faith. It does not last forever. And it did not.
This website — these prayer cards, these articles, these books — is what came after. I want to be honest that I do not always feel like I am doing enough, or doing it well, or doing it right. I am just trying my best. That is the truest way I know to describe it.
I had decided to stop building things to sell, and to start building something to give directly to God. That was the whole of it. Everything else followed from that one decision.
I am a husband. I write marriage books under pen names. I make prayer cards by hand. I research forgotten saints from every apostolic tradition — Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, and all those whose lineage traces back to the Apostles. I am not a monk — but I am trying to live like one from where I am standing.
Three Things Happening Here
Everything on this site exists to do one of three things — and honestly, all three are the same thing looked at from different angles.
Preserving the Saints
I research the lives of holy people from every apostolic tradition — Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, and all those whose lineage traces back to the Apostles. If a disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ began your tradition, then every holy person who followed in that tradition deserves to be remembered. Holy people, regardless of which hand they made the sign of the cross with, deserve to be venerated.
I search especially for the obscure, the forgotten, the ones who exist as a single paragraph in an old document or a footnote in a martyrology — people who may not have had a prayer offered to them in centuries. I hope this work outlasts me. I hope it remains as a place where people can find saints they need, saints who might otherwise be lost entirely.
Making Prayer Cards by Hand
Every card is made to order, one at a time. While I work — printing, cutting, laminating — I pray the Jesus Prayer for the person who ordered the card and the person who will receive it. I ask the saint on the card, by name, to intercede for them. The person receiving the card never knows prayers were said for them while it was made. That unknowing is part of what makes it beautiful.
The monks of Mount Athos make prayer ropes — every knot a prayer, the work and the prayer the same thing. This is my version of that, from where I am standing.
Free Marriage Books
I have written a number of books on Christian marriage. Every single one of them is free to read online — no purchase, no email address, no paywall of any kind. They are written under pen names because I do not want credit for them.
The hope is simple: someone reads it free online, sees what it does for their marriage, and then buys a physical copy to give to someone they love — a friend, a newly engaged couple, a family member they want to see happy. No one should have a barrier between them and a God-filled marriage. Not money, not anything.
Made One at a Time.
Prayed Over, Every One.
Nothing here sits in a warehouse. There is no batch printing, no assembly line, no anonymous production facility. When an order comes in, I make that order. I print it, cut it, finish it by hand, and I pray while I do it.
I care especially about saints who are rarely seen outside their own tradition — Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, Ukrainian, Armenian, and others whose names are unfamiliar to most people. That is by design. Holy is holy. Whether they are venerated in a small village church in Lebanon or a monastery in Ethiopia, their witness belongs to the whole Church. Getting their cards into homes and prayer corners and wallets is the mission.
Museum-quality archival paper. Industrial double lamination. And genuine prayer at every step. Not because it makes for a good marketing line — because it is what the work actually is.
The Bigger Dream
I want to say this honestly, because I think honesty is more compelling than polished mission statements. This is where I am trying to go. I am not there yet.
Dignified Retirement for Eastern Clergy
The priests and deacons who have spent their lives serving Eastern Catholic and Orthodox communities in America deserve to retire with dignity, peace of mind, and financial stability. Many of them do not have that. Individual parishes are stretched thin trying to care for retired clergy. The system is underfunded and it relies too heavily on guilt-based appeals. I believe there is a better way.
A Self-Sustaining Model, Not a Charity
The idea is not to ask people to give money out of obligation. The idea is to build a system where the faithful are already receiving genuine value — prayer cards, devotional goods, marriage resources, pilgrimages, subscriptions — and where a portion of every transaction flows into a fund that cares for the clergy who shaped those same faithful throughout their lives. Reciprocal care. Not charity.
Starting Small, Scaling Across All Eastern Traditions
This initiative began with one church community in Austin, Texas. But the vision has always been larger: a model that serves clergy from every Eastern rite — Byzantine, Ukrainian, Melkite, Chaldean, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, and all the others. If it works in one community, it can be replicated across every Eastern tradition in communion with the ancient faith.
Beyond Clergy: The Whole Community
The same model can support Eastern monasteries worldwide through purchases and pilgrimages. It can give dignified work to the poor through things like handmade rosary production. It can create affordable church website hosting, clergy video courses, and conference events. Every piece of it serves someone who deserves to be served, and every piece of it is funded by transactions that already deliver real value.
I do not have a nonprofit yet. I am building toward that. Right now this is one person, working to prove the concept is viable, building the infrastructure, and doing the work. If this grows the way I believe it can, the nonprofit comes next — and with it, a transparent, accountable structure for every dollar that flows through it. I want you to know where things actually stand, not where I wish they stood.
Why Marriage Is Here
Marriage is not a relationship to manage. It is a path to holiness. And most people who are in one have never been told that.
The Front Line
I believe the home is one of the primary front lines of spiritual warfare. It is in families that hearts either drift apart or grow stronger with God. The world continues to pull against everything holy, and it pulls hardest inside the places where people let their guard down — which is the home, and the marriage at the center of it.
My wife and I have lived this. Our marriage was hard before it was good. The years of learning to use it as a form of worship — of learning what that even means in daily practice — changed everything about how we live. That entire journey is in the books.
Free Because No One Should Have a Barrier
Every marriage book here is free to read online. All of them. No purchase, no email address, no paywall. There should be no barrier between a person and a God-filled marriage — not money, not anything.
The hope is that someone reads online, sees what it does for their marriage, and then wants to give a physical copy to someone they love — a newly engaged couple, a friend going through a hard season, a family member they want to see flourish. That is the whole model. Read it free. If it helps, pass it on.
The books are written under pen names. If something in those pages helps a couple, I want their gratitude to go to God — not to me.
"The hidden ascetic is not the one who does this perfectly. It is the one who returns to God again and again — after every failure, after every drift, after every fall."
— from The Hidden Monk: How to Live a Monastic Life Without Leaving the World
Explore the Work
Whether you came for the saints, the marriage books, or something you cannot quite name yet — you are welcome here. Stay as long as you like.
Made prayerfully in Austin, Texas, by one person trying his best.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.