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Try to fill your soul with Christ

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  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
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Sep 30 2016
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Try to fill your soul with Christ so as not to have it empty. Your soul is like

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Avoid with all your power negligence

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Vices and virtues
Sep 29 2016
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Avoid with all your power negligence! Self-esteem corrupts treasures that have been amassed, while negligence

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Less known things about the nativity of the Mother of God – Full Photo Report

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Sep 28 2016
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There are some less known things about the nativity of the Mother of God: firstly, she was

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Manual tasks bring their own special blessings – a photo report with grapes

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
Sep 27 2016
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Manual tasks bring their own special blessings; in contrast with the more intellectual ones, they make it easier to guard the mind, the nous, and to

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How to overcome the mass-media manipulation and find the truth

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Sep 26 2016
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The problem is not people being uneducated; the problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been taught and not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught. That’s why we need

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The way that leads to humility

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  • Abba Sisoes
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Sep 25 2016
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Abba Sisoes used to say that the way that leads to humility is

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You should care for the main thing: death

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Saint Ambrose of Optina
  • Saint John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco
  • Victory over death
Sep 24 2016
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You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death because

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Act like you believe

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Sep 23 2016
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Do you believe that God provides for His creatures, and is able to do all things? Let suitable

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The man in the picture is St. Christoper’s (3rd century) successor.

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  • Prayer
  • Vices and virtues
Sep 22 2016
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St Christopher was a man of great stature and unusual strength. According to tradition, St Christopher was very handsome, but wishing to avoid temptation for himself and others, he asked the Lord to give him an unattractive face, which was granted to him.

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The feast of the Holy Belt, the feast of Chastity and Obedience – Full Photo Report – Part 2: The Litany, Liturgy

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
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  • Renunciation of the world
Sep 21 2016
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There are many miracles which the Holy Belt has performed throughout history. For us, however, the most precious miracle which happens each year is that we are, after 15 (fifteen) hours of

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The feast of the Holy Belt, the feast of Chastity and Obedience – Full Photo Report – Part 1: The Vigil

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
Sep 20 2016
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God is allmighty and He could leave us for consolation anything from His mother. However,

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We know the great secret about the devil

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  • Repentance
  • Saint John Chrysostom
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  • Victory over death
Sep 19 2016
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The great secret about the devil is that he cannot do anything. He can only

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Hell: equals with…

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
Sep 18 2016
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to

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Father Seraphim Rose: 21st Century Schizoid Man

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Sep 17 2016
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What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream;

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Dangers associated with our stance against the Creation

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  • Prayer
Sep 16 2016
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The mind, the eye of the soul, is enlightened only by God’s grace. Although the things of this creation can cast a light upon the mind, this light is

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How to recognize the stages of spiritual life

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
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Sep 15 2016
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress, freedom from

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We need a change in our ontological status

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  • Dispassion
  • Father Stephen Freeman
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Sep 14 2016
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It is not that we did something wrong and now owe a debt we cannot pay, or are punished with death – though such a metaphor can be used and has it’s usefulness. But we need more than

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“It is better to give than to receive” said our Lord. Why? – Photo Report from the Cell of Saint Joseph of Partoș (Timișoara)

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Sep 13 2016
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“It is better to give than to receive” said our Lord, and rightfully so. This is because man is easily enslaved by

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Suffering cleanses

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  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Sep 12 2016
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Suffering cleanses the soul infected with the filth of sensual pleasure and detaches it completely from material things by showing it the

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The war of thoughts; the stages of sin

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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Sep 11 2016
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At the beginning, the thought is making just a simple appearance. If the mind throws it away then all the war is gone. However, most of the time the mind is

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Saint Joseph of Timișoara: how to make him to help us – Photo Report from Liturgy

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Father George Calciu
  • New Testament
  • Prayer
Sep 10 2016
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Pray to the saint whose name you bear, and he [or she] will help you. Turn to him in times of sorrow and sickness; in difficult circumstances and in moments of joy…

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The types of prayer according to apostle

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  • Saint John Cassian
Sep 09 2016
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The apostle notes four types of prayer. ‘My advice is that first of all supplication should be offered up for everyone, prayers, pleas, and thanksgiving’ (I Tim. 2:1)…

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Technology: How we reached here

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Sep 08 2016
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God was the reason of true faith and good behavior and of the knowledge of technology among people. While people continually felt…

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The Dormition of Theotokos – Full Photo Report – Part 2: The Divine Liturgy

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  • Saint John of Damascus
Sep 07 2016
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It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she,…

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The Dormition of Theotokos – Full Photo Report – Part 1: The Vigil

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  • Saint John of Damascus
Sep 06 2016
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Thus as art can also be the fountain of true light, the inexhaustible treasury of life itself, the most fruitful source of blessing, who has won for us and brought us all good things…

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How can Christians wage war

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
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Sep 05 2016
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In the [Muslim] Saracen encampment they asked Saint Cyril [Enlightener of the Slavs]: “How can Christians wage war and at the same time keep Christ’s commandment to pray to God for their enemies?’ To this, Saint Cyril replied:

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What is Hell?

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Victory over death
Sep 04 2016
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Hell is a state of eternally being separated from God. Your very being is contingent upon God for existence, but you never cease to exist. Therefore, as you attempt to rip yourself from existence and fail for all eternity, it is the most profound suffering. It is…

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Deification: our purpose

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  • Dispassion
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  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Sep 03 2016
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What we can say about deification? Here are we who lie in the deepest pit of ignorance, in the dark passions of this body and in the shadow of death, having the temerity to begin to philosophize about heaven on earth. The firmament has the stars for its beauty, and dispassion has the virtues for its adornments; for by dispassion I mean no other than the interior heaven of the mind, which regards the tricks of the demons as mere toys. And so he is truly dispassionate, and is recognized as dispassionate, who has made his flesh incorruptible, who has […]

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How to become equal to the apostles

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  • Saint John Chrysostom
Sep 02 2016
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Wherefore, if you desire to become equal to the apostles, there is nothing to hinder you. For to have arrived at this virtue only suffices for your…

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Never confuse the person with the evil

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  • Saint John of Kronstadt
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Sep 01 2016
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Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because…

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