How to qualify for the contest of sanctification
Those who enter the contest of sanctification must renounce all things, despise all things, and shake off all things, that they may lay a firm foundation. A good foundation of three layers and three pillars is innocence, fasting and temperance. Let all babes in Christ begin with these virtues, taking as their model the natural babies. For you never find in them anything sly or deceitful. They have no insatiate appetite, no insatiable stomach, no body on fire; but perhaps as they grow, in proportion as they take more food, their natural passions also increase.
Based on Saint John of the Ladder
In this photo are to be seen some cells from Vatopaidi’s teritory: Saints Archangels (left), Saints Constantine and Helen (right) and to the top Saint Nicholas
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This lesson together with the previous one “God’s grace: The cause of leaving” are really so much helpful to begin the road of Christ and even later in time, to maintain and to increase the spiritual level.
These lessons of this website, are amazing. Thank you so much!
Have God’s protection always!
Ioan Toma
Thanks a lot! Let us pray to Christ to help us to advance further…