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Why we perform the virtues?

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 28 2015
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The self-controlled refrain from gluttony; those who have renounced possessions, from greed; the tranquil, from loquacity; the pure, from…

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Elder, why are you happy all day long?

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Dispassion
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 27 2015
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A disciple asked an elder, “Elder, why are you happy all day long?” The elder replied,…

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World War III: why and when?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Feb 26 2015
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World War III: why and when? A pilgrim asked a monk, “When will the Third World War happen, and why?” The monk replied,…

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How to became a ruler of this world

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Slander
Feb 25 2015
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The Creator and Ruler of the world called Himself meek and humble of heart. Therefore, to be a true Ruler of this world…

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Humility will end any war

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Elder Ilarion of Kalamitsi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 24 2015
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Humility will end any war. This is because humility is a necessary precondition to…

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St. Paisios: How to learn the mysteries of God

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Prayer
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Feb 23 2015
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Whoever thinks that he can come to know the mysteries of God through external scientific theory, resembles the fool who wants to see Paradise with a telescope. Those who…

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The Holy Monastery of Grigoriou, Mount Athos

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 22 2015
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The monastery was founded by St. Gregory of Mount Athos (Younger) in the fourteenth century when he came to Mount Athos to pursue asceticism. By the end of the 15h century,…

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Learn to Know and Deal with Your Masters

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Gregory of Nyssa
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 21 2015
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For the whole array of passions: wrath, fear, cowardice, impudence, depression as well as pleasure, hatred, strife and merciless cruelty, envy as well as flattery, brutality together with brooding over injuries — they are all many despotic masters…

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How to Control and Know Yourself

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 20 2015
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He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but…

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Keep a Careful Eye on their Motives

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 19 2015
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I have watched farmers sowing the same type of seed, and yet each one had different ideas of what he was doing. One was planning to…

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The Divine Liturgy of St James – Full Photo Essay with Descriptions

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Feb 18 2015
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God’s action in creation and creation’s role in our journey towards God culminate in the…

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The Mother of All the Passions and Sins and its Therapy

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 17 2015
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Pride is the mother of all the passions and sins. Further, Pride is the greatest illness…

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From Adam Until Christ: 5508 Years?

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 16 2015
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A disciple once asked an elder, “From the time of Adam until Christ have there been exactly 5508 years?” In reply the elder said…

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The Skete of Saint Andrew (Sarai)

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  • Informational
  • Mount Athos
Feb 15 2015
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The Skete of Saint Andrew, also the Skete of Apostle Andrew and Great Anthony in Karyes is a monastic institution on Mount Athos. It is a…

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Rule #1 of Programming

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
Feb 14 2015
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Rule #1 of Programming: If a program works perfectly, the pleasure goes to users. If something is wrong,…

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Feb 12 2015
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The purpose of our life on earth is not to attain worldly achievements, but rather to attain the…

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Paramythia – A Miracle-Working Icon of the Mother of God and its Feast

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 11 2015
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The Mother of God can save us through her intercession. At Vatopaidi Monastery there is a miracle-working icon of the Virgin Mary called Paramythia, the “Comforter.”  This icon…

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In the Name of the Father

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Obedience
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Feb 10 2015
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He who gives life to a son is called father. Since the…

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The Prodigal Son

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • New Testament
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Feb 09 2015
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…But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was…

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The Holy Monastery of Agios Pavlos (St Paul), Mount Athos

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 08 2015
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The monastery was founded shortly before 980 and was called St Paul’s or Xeropotamou. The founder seems to have been the prominent monk Paul, who also founded the Monastery of…

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The Seraphim and Angels

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of Damascus
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 07 2015
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The first group of angels consists of those who are in God’s presence and are said to be directly and immediately one with Him: the…

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You are NOT Alone

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint George Karslidis
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 06 2015
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Each one of us has a…

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How to Make Major Decisions

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 05 2015
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It is a shame to cut down or destroy a tree recklessly, but…

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How to Quickly Find your Peace

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 04 2015
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You will not labour many years, son, in search of blessed inner peace, if in the beginning you…

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Combating existential diseases

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Love
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
Feb 03 2015
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Analyses of the person are essential, because within this framework we can solve social problems as well. A society cannot exist without man. Man is making our society and all the social institutions ill. A person who is ill creates…

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Avoid pride: it will make your virtues stink

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Feb 02 2015
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People who work for Christ, but with pride, make their virtues smell bad.  It’s like if you’re…

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The Holy Monastery of Dionysiou

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 01 2015
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The Holy Monastery of Dionysiou, or ‘Nea Petra,’ stands on a narrow and precipitous rock at a height of…

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