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From the Post-Modern Persona to the Person

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
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  • Elder Ephraim of Vatopaidi
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  • Victory over death
Sep 30 2015
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Human beings are the crown of creation. The longing for perfection is innate. This can be seen in the execution of any academic activity, art or even profession. People try, to the best of their abilities, to achieve perfection, even in their everyday activities. And this is evidence of the potential God has given us for our personal perfection and completion as a psychosomatic entity and being.

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The mystery of man’s heart

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
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  • Elder Zacharias of Essex
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
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  • Prayer
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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
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  • Victory over death
Sep 29 2015
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All the ordinances of the undefiled Church are offered to the world for the sole purpose of dis­covering the ‘deep heart’, the centre of man’s hypo­s­tasis. According to the Holy Scriptures, God has fashioned every heart in a special way, and each heart is His goal, a place wherein He desires to abide that He may mani­fest Himself. Since the kingdom of God is within us, the heart is the battlefield of our salvation, and all ascetic effort is aimed at cleansing it of all filthiness, and preserving it pure before the Lord. ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence; for […]

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People are like a burning candle

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  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
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Sep 28 2015
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In their flesh, people are like a burning candle. The candle is destined to melt, as people are to die. But our souls is immortal, which is why we should turn our attention more towards it than to the body.

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Peace is the health of the soul

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  • Saint John of Kronstadt
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Sep 25 2015
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Peace is the integrity and health of the soul. Losing your peace means losing your spiritual health. based on Saint John of Kronstadt

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When prayer turns into deception

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  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Sep 24 2015
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There are many ways of praying. They’re all good, if people don’t know how to pray with simplicity. But if somebody else is leading them, and they disobey, then their prayer turns and becomes deception. based on Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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Towards a better understanding of the phenomenon of addictions

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Father Vasileios Thermos
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  • Vices and virtues
Sep 23 2015
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Besides, the collapse of ideologies, including religions, has left a vacuum, not only in the realm of ideas. First and foremost, it has created a vacuum in the psyche, which has taken the form of an existential vacuum, or even psychopathology. A well-constructed system of ideas has the power to transform (in the best case scenario) or to legitimize (in the worst) elements which a person’s psyche considers unacceptable, siphoning them off into collective interests. Without ideology, the psyche is exposed to its destructive and aggressive urges, for which the ideology constituted a functional alibi (and not always with regrettable […]

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The Education in God

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  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
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  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Victory over death
Sep 22 2015
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Very often humanistic wisdom is not simply different from divine wisdom. It is also opposite to it. Human wisdom “is contrary to the true and spiritual knowledge” . In fact, St. Gregory argues that all human heresies have sprung out of human wisdom, whose center is rationality and human thinking. “And if you examine, you will see that all or most of the heresies have their origin here” . The saint’s observation is remarkable. If we examine church history carefully we will find out that all heretics originated from human thinking and a man-centered view of life. They always tried […]

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People as Liturgical Beings

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
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Sep 21 2015
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People who offer ‘your own from your own, in all things and for all things’ serve God truly and pleasingly. That is, people who recognize that whatever they have is a gift from God. They believe that they’ve got nothing of their own to offer. Everything’s from God and they take from that and offer it to God, together with themselves, their world and their relations with the world. They keep nothing selfishly for themselves. They offer themselves without reservation. They give everything in order to receive everything. They die in order to live. And they offer everything in Christ […]

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All Planets the Same: Religion’s Response to Space Life

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  • Protopresbyter John Romanides
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Sep 20 2015
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I can foresee no way in which the teachings of the Orthodox Christian tradition could be affected by the discovery of intelligent beings on another planet. Some of my colleagues feel that even a discussion of the consequences of such a possibility is in itself a waste of time for serious theology and borders on the fringes of foolishness. I am tempted to agree with them for several reasons. As I understand the problem, the discovery of intelligent life on another planet would raise questions concerning traditional Roman Catholic and Protestant teachings regarding creation, the fall, man as the image […]

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Humility: the comprehensive labour of love that supports all the other virtues

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
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Sep 19 2015
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The incontrovertible judgment of the Fathers regarding the practical manner in which to achieve this God-pleasing quality is- in their experience- bodily labour and self-knowledge, and these are things which are present in everyday life. In general, the narrow path of all-inclusive Christian morality leads to the fear of God and He then becomes a guide to that which constitutes ‘sentience in God’ and the great virtues, which are ‘not to think highly of yourself’, ‘to censure yourself’ and ‘to withstand all temptations’.

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The purpose of the Christian life

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Sep 18 2015
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The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured.

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Everything towards God

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  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Sep 17 2015
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Knowledge, sensation, understanding, contemplation, insight and every movement of the intellect, everything in all things, should be directed towards God. based on Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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The Cross as a Means of Sanctification and Transformation of the World

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  • father Dumitru Staniloae
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Sep 14 2015
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Through the Cross, Christ sanctified His body- the link with the world. He rejected the temptations sent to Him by the world, that is to taste the pleasures, to satisfy His needs unrestrained or to avoid pain and death. If we, in the same way, ward off the temptations of sin and patiently suffer the pain of death, sanctity can spread from His body to all bodies and throughout the world. The Orthodox Church doesn’t say that, through the Cross, Christ left the creation, but that He restored it to paradise- the paradise of virtue for those who, out of […]

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The Divine Liturgy, what a splendor indeed!

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Sep 13 2015
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Man has been honored by God in such a way that He Himself comes down to earth with His Angelic Orders every time there is a Liturgy, in order to nurture man with His Most Holy Body and His Most Precious Blood! For He has given us everything. Is there anything physical or spiritual, perishable or everlasting, that has not been offered to us? None! Is there anything superior to His Most Holy Body and Blood, which is given to us on a daily basis? There is certainly not. God has enabled man, who is full of soil and dirt, […]

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The Monastic Life: The way of perfection

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  • Prof. Georgios Mantzaridis
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Sep 12 2015
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With the advent of monasticism, a special way of life appeared in the Church, which however did not proclaim a new morality. The Church does not have one set of moral rules for the laity and another for monks, nor does it divide the faithful into classes according to their obligations towards God. The Christian life is the same for everyone. All Christians have in common that “their being and name is from Christ”1. This means that the true Christian must ground his life and conduct in Christ, something which is hard to do in the world. What is difficult […]

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Our intellect united with our heart

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Sep 11 2015
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The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured.

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People can be working with their hands, but have their heart and minds lifted up to God

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Sep 05 2015
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People can pray without ceasing provided they’re always standing before God in heart and mind. They can be working with their hands, but have their heart and minds lifted up to God.

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Legitimate Exercise

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Sep 04 2015
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Whatever movement you make, starting with its conception and following through to the implementation, you have to examine all the time what God will take from it. This is our legitimate exercise. Because that’s all that’ll remain; all the rest will be done away with.

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Crowned humbleness

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  • Elder Arsenie Boca
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Sep 03 2015
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If somebody accuses you of committing a sin that you didn’t do, humble yourself and you’ll inherit the crown of incorruption. You’ll be wise when, through your silence rather than anger, you stop the mouths of others, who speak evil. Don’t become angry or enraged except with yourself. Anger and stubbornness are uncontrollable forces of the soul. based on Elder Arsenie Boca (of Romania)

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The economic and moral crisis that has arisen in most nations and states is linked to obvious root causes which have a name and particular forms

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  • Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
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Sep 02 2015
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1. Avarice. 2. The elimination of the sense of justice. 3. distortion of the truth. 4. ego-centrism, captivity to ourselves, worship of our personal interest, or that of our family, our place or, if you like, our nation.

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