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God’s precognition

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 31 2016
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Here’s a mystery: in His omnipotence and His omniscience, He knows everything, including what’s going to happen in the future, but He’s not the cause of any evil. God has precognition, but doesn’t preordain. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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No infallible people

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Jan 30 2016
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Nobody’s infallible, especially when they’re still imperfect and full of badness. There are lots of things they don’t know, and they’re not very good at others. They lack experience and are fighting an unequal struggle, as well. “Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi”

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Far from the truth

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  • Saint Ephraim the Syrian
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 29 2016
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If people’s intellect isn’t illumined by divine teaching, their mind is a long way from the truth. “Saint Ephraim the Syrian”

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When we approach God

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 28 2016
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We often come to God to lean on Him because nothing around us brings us peace. And then we feel calm. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Punishment and reward

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  • Repentance
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Jan 27 2016
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Punishment and reward. Both of these are in the hands of God. But just as life on earth is no more than a shadow of that in heaven, by the same token, punishment and reward  are merely a shadow of the real punishment and reward of eternity. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”  

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On the care of the soul

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Jan 26 2016
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Just as the winter is a good time to turn over the ground, so sorrows are good for the care of the soul. Sorrow brings two benefits: it makes us more estimable and more careful. “Saint John Chrysostom”

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Praise him

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jan 25 2016
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If you hear that your friend or neighbor is laughing at you to your face or behind your back, show them love and praise them. It’s a great thing to expel human praise from your soul. But it’s ever greater to expel the praise of the demons. “Saint John of the Ladder”

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How we read the Scriptures

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  • Elder Charalambos of Dionysiou
  • Prayer
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 24 2016
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So, do you want me to tell you how we, who are illiterate, read the Scriptures? After I’ve prayed for five or six hours, I then read the Scriptures, and for preference the Gospels. I can assure you that my mind opens so much, I understand so clearly, that I’m overcome with emotion. I put aside the book and am moved to tears for a long period of time… “Elder Charalambos of Dionysiou”

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Living truly

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jan 23 2016
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To live truly, we have to live in the way God ordained when He made us. Unless we do, we aren’t living at all. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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Our own deformity

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
Jan 22 2016
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However well informed you are in terms of human wisdom, this doesn’t cure your deformity. You have to rediscover the true image of God, Christ, so that assuming the form of Christ, you’ll be healed of the deformities of the passions and of sin and thus attain your supreme goal of likeness, of glorification. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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The word of God

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  • Elder Zacharias of Essex
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Jan 21 2016
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The word of God quietens our nature. The love of it keeps us on the hard path of His will, so that we may put ourselves second and honour others more than ourselves. The word of God is always the word of the Cross that guides us into the abundance of divine life and gives us the freedom of sinless-ness. “Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)”

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Heart and humility

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 20 2016
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The heart gives life to our organism and humility gives life to the soul. Through egotism, people take the side of the wicked spirit, that is they grow in a spirit of evil rather than good. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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There are lots of paths

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  • Elder Philotheos Zervakos
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Jan 19 2016
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There are lots of paths for us to get from earth to heaven, but the easiest, quickest and safest is humility. That’s the only one that’s safe and sure, and if you walk it you’ll get from earth to heaven, to Paradise, unharmed. “Elder Philotheos Zervakos”

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It hastens to steal

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  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 18 2016
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The ant waits for the corn to be gathered and vainglory waits for spiritual riches to accrue. The ant hastens to steal; vainglory rejoices at being lavish. The spirit of despair rejoices when it sees wickedness multiplying; the spirit of vainglory rejoices when it sees virtue multiplying. “Saint John of the Ladder”

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Man is the image and likeness of God

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  • Elder Zacharias of Essex
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 17 2016
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In order to have the desired relationship with God, to love Him with all our heart and to remain constantly in His presence, it is necessary to have a pure and free heart. The heart becomes free when repentance uproots from within it the law of sin and all the commandments of God become the unique law of our being. Then a divine state and love is imparted to man which is made manifest in unceasing prayer and through it, love for his fellow man. This prayer shows that man is the image and likeness of God and he loves […]

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The freedom of the Spirit

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  • Elder Zacharias of Essex
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Jan 16 2016
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The freedom that the man born of the Spirit seeks is neither political nor social but spiritual and of the heart. The more he becomes sanctified, the more he becomes free. Holiness is not an ethical principle but is purely spiritual and ontological. “Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)”

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The fire of thoughts

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Jan 15 2016
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Avoid bad thoughts as if they were flames pay absolutely no attention to them so that they don’t consume you “Saint Joseph the Hesychast”

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Stress and melancholy

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 14 2016
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Stress is caused by the eradication of the religious sense. Unless you have love for Christ, unless you concern yourself with holy matters, you’re bound to be full of melancholy and badness. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Peace and power

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
Jan 13 2016
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In a quiet room (preferably after some spiritual reading or after lighting the lamp in front of the icons and censing), as far as possible removed from  noise and concerns, when you’re free of all thought and calculation, let your intellect go down into your heart and say the prayer ‘Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, sinner that I am’. What peace and power our souls derive from this stillness in God… How it enables us, in the other hours in the day, to retain our peace, without irritability, tension and anxiety, with all our powers in harmony and […]

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Time to open the door to Him

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  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Jan 12 2016
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Christ comes lots of times and knocks at your door. You ask Him into the sitting-room of your soul and then get involved with other tasks and forget all about the great Visitor. He waits for you to appear and when a long time’s passed He gets up and leaves. Next time, you’re so busy, you answer Him from the window. You haven’t got time even to open the door to Him. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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When we’re moved to pray

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  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 11 2016
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When a person’s intellect is moved to pray, divine Grace comes in a fraction of a second. That person is then filled with Grace and sees everything with other eyes. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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On Emptiness

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Jan 10 2016
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When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them up: jealousies, hatreds, boredom, melancholy, resentment, a worldly outlook, worldly pleasures. Try to  fill your soul with Christ so that it’s not empty. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Why do people divorce?

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 09 2016
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People divorce because of their sensuality and their egotism. Nothing else. All the other reasons are invented afterwards to justify what they’ve done. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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The easiest place

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  • Love
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 08 2016
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The purer a heart is, the larger and more open it is, and the more easily it finds space to accommodate more people. The more sinful it is, the more it contracts, shuts down, and so it can find room for only a few. “Saint John of Kronstadt”

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As a test

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Basil the Great
Jan 07 2016
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Sorrows are not visited on God’s servants without a purpose, but as a test of our true love for Him. “Saint Basil the Great”

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At their disposal

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  • Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
Jan 06 2016
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When people put themselves at the service of others with the aim of helping them and bringing them relief, then not only Christ but all the heavenly powers are at their disposal. “Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher”

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The liberation of Cyprus

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  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Jan 05 2016
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‘Cyprus will be liberated when the Cypriotes repent. Make spiritual bases and get rid of those of the Turks, the British and the Americans’. So he saw the Cyprus problem as a spiritual issue, not a political or national one. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Children and prayer

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 04 2016
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We should see God in the faces of children and we should give them His love. Children, too, should learn how to pray. If they are to pray, children need to have the blood of prayerful parents. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Like the thief on the cross

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gerontissa Philothei of Karea
  • Repentance
Jan 03 2016
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Christian maturity is like being ground as fine as the dust and then when the doors of heaven are shut, you blow under, like the thief on the cross. “Gerontissa Philothei of Karea monastery in Athens, Greece”  

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God knew

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Zacharias of Essex
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Jan 02 2016
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God knew that no one by himself would be able to receive all of the wealth of His gifts. That is why He did not abandon man in the desolation of his fall, but sent his Only-begotten Son to the world and He perfected a Body in history the Church, to which He imparted all the glory and perfection of His gifts. We become members of the Church through faith in the word of Christ and repentance so that we may conform our minds and hearts to His saving will. “Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)”  

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