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It upsets the nerves

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
Feb 29 2016
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Pride upsets the nerves, heats the blood, stimulates the imagination and preserves life in the fallen state. Humility calms the nerves, regulates the flow of blood, reins in idle fancies, puts a stop to the life of the fall and gives the life which Jesus Christ brought. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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Marriage must be a sacrament

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 28 2016
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When marriage is no more than a physical and social fact, without becoming a ‘sacrament’, that is without passing into the Church, into the Kingdom of God and being transformed, it can neither be saved nor can it save. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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Paradise without you

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  • Dispassion
  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
Feb 27 2016
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I don’t want Paradise without you, my children. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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The ashes and the spark

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  • Dispassion
  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 26 2016
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The passions cover Divine Grace, just as ash covers the spark. With asceticism and prayer, however, the heart is cleansed of the passions, the  spark of divine grace is rekindled and the faithful feel Christ in their heart, which is the centre of their existence. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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The Grace and the sea of life.

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
Feb 25 2016
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We find ourselves on the sea of life – sometimes it’s a storm, other times it’s a mill-pond. God’s Grace doesn’t desert us. If things were otherwise, we’d never realize how Grace sustains us. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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It overturns and sinks

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Feb 24 2016
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Savage criticism of others wrecks their souls and sinks them. “Saint John Chrysostom”

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The best cleansing agent

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  • Repentance
Feb 23 2016
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All the impurities of sin that have piled up in the heart are cleansed by the tears of repentance.

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Their hearts are full of jealousy

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Feb 22 2016
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Hypocrites want to be called saints and to be venerated by everyone as being pious. You see their outward appearance and you think that they’re doing everything according to God’s will, but their hearts are full of jealousy, guile and every form of evil. “Saint John Chrysostom”

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Take a look

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
Feb 21 2016
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You have a long struggle ahead of you. You have to cultivate within yourself a courageous frame of mind. Take a look at the objects of your love. Do you like them a lot? Are you very tied to them? Get rid of them! That rejection is what the Lord asks of you. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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Become a sharer

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  • Abba Efprepios
  • Love
Feb 20 2016
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If you believe that God is trustworthy and powerful, then hope only in Him and you’ll become a sharer in His good things. “Abba Efprepios”

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If you are so patient how do you put up with so much?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Feb 19 2016
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The Grace of God helps. I always believe in God’s power, which transforms and regulates everything for the good of our soul. People who are upset aren’t thinking clearly and rationally. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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Deeply wounded

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  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 18 2016
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How wounded our natural love is! How deep the wound of strong passion is that it bears. When the heart is engulfed with powerful passion, it’s capable of every kind of injustice, every kind of transgression, as long as it satisfies its sick love. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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Are you weak or strong?

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Feb 17 2016
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When you trust other people, you’re weak, but when you trust in God you’re strong. Cleave to God and all His strength will be with you. Confess your weakness before Him and He will send you His all-powerful Grace. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”

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From the bottom of your heart

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  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Feb 16 2016
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If other people do you harm, whatever it is, you shouldn’t take revenge, but, on the contrary, should forgive, from the bottom of your heart, those who’ve done you an injustice. “Saint Seraphim of Sarov”

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Easter people

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  • Barbara Johnson
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Feb 14 2016
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. “Barbara Johnson”

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Be patient

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  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Feb 13 2016
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Be patient with your own passions and be patient with mine. Then you’ll become a saint. “Saint Ephraim of Katounakia”

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Hoodwinked

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Repentance
  • Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
Feb 12 2016
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The reason why people sin is because they’ve been hoodwinked in their search for what’s good by ignoring the moral law which is written in their hearts. “Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis”

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Parental heritage

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  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 11 2016
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The state of people’s souls is affected by their parents and this is something they carry with them throughout their lives. It leaves its traces, and a lot of the things which happen to them in life are the result of this state. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Complete affection

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Love
Feb 10 2016
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We should always have complete affection in our souls, even though we may often be disappointed with the behaviour of other people towards us. “Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi”

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Our attitude

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  • Dispassion
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
Feb 09 2016
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Our struggle to enter into the eternal life of God Himself is neither a simple nor an easy thing. Our attitude is ‘May your will be done’. Then the potential develops within us to conceive of God as He is in His eternity. “Saint Sophrony of Essex”

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Get to know your nature

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Repentance
  • Saint Basil the Great
Feb 08 2016
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Examine yourself. See who you are. Get to know your nature, that is that the body’s mortal, but your soul’s immortal. Don’t ask for superiority, but rather that you can recognize the equality of nature and can love, that you should be equal to those who seem in some way to be inferior to you.   “Saint Basil the Great”

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Joy and pain, rose and thorn

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Feb 07 2016
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Beautiful things are linked to pain, but pain also brings joy. A rose produces a thorn and the thorn a rose. Generally, a rainbow appears after a squall. Unless there are storms, the sky won’t clear. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Prayer and good state

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Feb 06 2016
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Say the prayer, say the Jesus prayer and that’ll bring you into such a good state that however much you think about it, you can’t think about it. “Saint Ephraim of Katounakia”

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The Grace and the sea of life

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
Feb 05 2016
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We find ourselves on the sea of life – sometimes it’s a storm, other times it’s a mill-pond. God’s Grace doesn’t desert us. If things were otherwise, we’d never realize how Grace sustains us. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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How Church cures our deformation

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
Feb 04 2016
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The Church cures our deformation through its teaching, through the Gospel message, through asceticism, through its holy sacraments and through the pastoral care of its bishops. “Blessed Georgios Kapsanis, Proegumen of Gregoriou Monastery”

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Very infernal attitudes

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
Feb 03 2016
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Pusillanimity and disbelief are very infernal attitudes, especially for people who’ve felt the miraculous intervention of our God and Savior. Alas, what a sinner I am. “Saint John of Kronstadt”

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Strike them all

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 02 2016
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The passions are serpents. When one of them emanates from the heart, it’s like a snake sticking its head out of a hole. Strike it in the name of Christ. It’ll withdraw at once. As soon as another one manifests itself, hit that as well. Strike them all. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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Without humility

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  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Feb 01 2016
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Without light, everything’s dark and without humility there’s nothing inside people, except darkness. “Saint Seraphim of Sarov”

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