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God is a fire

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jul 31 2016
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God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which…

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Prayer in church: how to and effects

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Barsanuphius of Optina
Jul 30 2016
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Prayer in church is important. The best thoughts and feelings come in church; and yes, the enemy also…

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How the Church acts upon us

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Prayer
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Jul 29 2016
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The Church, through the church and Divine service, acts upon the entire man, educates him wholly; acts upon his…

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How the sin appears

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Vices and virtues
Jul 28 2016
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Sin never appears as it really is, naked, abstract, because if it did, it wouldn’t deceive people’s minds so easily and make them give in. It always comes…

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The feast of Saint Paisios held by his disciples (Photo Report)

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Jul 27 2016
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We must not ask God for charismatic gifts but for repentance. The one who seek repentance will find…

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The champion and the Mother of God (photo report)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
Jul 26 2016
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“Please do not remember my sins” was the prayer that Ilias Iliadis said during Olympic Games held in London in 2012. “Mother of God, please do not remember my sins, and help me to gain an Olympic medal; and if you help me, I promise that I will give to you”…

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A certain man in Constantinople was unusually merciful (Photo Report)

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Jul 25 2016
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The Lord said: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me”. ( Matthew 25:40) A certain man in Constantinople was unusually merciful. Walking along the streets of the city, he would…

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The Great Schema

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Jul 24 2016
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The άνάλαβος (Analab[v]os), which is the distinctive garment of a monk or a nun tonsured into the highest grade of Orthodox monasticism, the Great Schema, is adorned with…

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The prayer is breath

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Jul 23 2016
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The prayer is breath. When a person breathes, he is alive, and he attends to…

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The Novice

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  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
Jul 22 2016
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If you love true knowledge, devote yourself to the ascetic life; for mere theoretical knowledge puffs a man up. Unexpected trials are…

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Prayer is grace

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Jul 21 2016
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Prayer is grace. God gives it when there is zeal and humility. It depends…

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Do not despair, nor be confident in yourself

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
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  • Saint Dorotheos of Gaza
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jul 20 2016
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It is God, Who is merciful and grants everyone what he needs, Who is blessing him when He gives him…

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The key to win your life contest

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Jul 19 2016
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He who wants to cross the spiritual sea is long-suffering, humble, vigilant and…

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Which is the aim of God

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Jul 18 2016
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The aim of God is to make man like Him. God’s purpose is to…

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”We have wives and are beset with social cares…”

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jul 17 2016
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Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: ‘We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life?’ I replied to them:…

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Don’t worry too much about how spiritually poor you are

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  • Father Seraphim Rose
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Jul 16 2016
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Don’t worry too much about how spiritually poor you are- God sees that, but for you it is expected to…

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What are the differences between divine energies

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jul 15 2016
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Divine Providence is one thing, Divine help is another, Divine protection is another, Divine mercy is another, and Divine consolation is another. Providence is…

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Nobody can separate us from the love of Christ (Photo Report)

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jul 14 2016
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A soul attached to the shepherd (his abbot or elder) with love and faith for Christ’s sake will not leave him even if it were at the price of his blood, and especially if he…

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Why is the truth revealed only to some?

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  • Father Seraphim Rose
  • Love
  • Prayer
Jul 13 2016
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Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God?…

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The base of the active life

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Vices and virtues
Jul 12 2016
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The Fathers state that the active life consists in two virtues of the most general kind: in fasting and obedience. And rightly, for the first destroys…

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How to correctly remove all doubt…

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  • Paul Saffo
  • Prayer
Jul 11 2016
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Many times it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. That’s why the humble ones…

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Be brave and don’t lie to yourself

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
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  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Jul 10 2016
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to the point where…

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Why we use incense?

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  • Old Testament
  • Prayer
Jul 09 2016
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Numbers 16:46-50: “And Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay…

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God will have the last word

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Victory over death
Jul 08 2016
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What I see around me would drive…

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The most powerful prayer

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
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Jul 07 2016
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The Holy Fathers say that the most powerful prayer is “pure” prayer, that is, prayer that is unencumbered and undistracted by thoughts. The prayer that best lends itself to becoming pure prayer is…

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The Eye

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  • New Testament
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of wrongs
Jul 06 2016
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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if…

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What is true humility

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  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
Jul 05 2016
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A disciple once asked an elder: – Elder, is true humility to see yourself worse than everyone else?…

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Why we must take care with children

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  • Tradition, learning and education
Jul 04 2016
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The name you scratch on the bark of a tree will…

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The main purpose of the Divine Liturgy

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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Jul 03 2016
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The main purpose of the Divine Liturgy is the reception of communion by the faithful, even if only by those few who are prepared. Almost all the prayers read by the priest are for those who will receive the Holy Eucharist. That’s why at least one should receive holy communion at the Liturgy. Based on Saint Paisios the Athonite In this photo Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada is praying during the Great Entrance.

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How to become a real winner

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Jul 02 2016
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Once, a disciple replied to an Elder:…

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