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Faith and determination can make wonders – a photo journal from the Cell of Saint Joseph of Timisoara

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
Jan 31 2017
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Some undertake a particular duty, but for a brother’s peace of mind, at his request they leave it; and some leave their work through laziness; and some do not leave it out of vainglory; and some do not leave it out of zeal. Faith and determination can make wonders. Just

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Elder Arsenie Boca: A prayer

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  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Love
  • Prayer
Jan 30 2017
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Lord, You who among people come in secret, have mercy on us and put fire to the prison,

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The blindness of the intellect

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Saint Hesychius the Priest
Jan 29 2017
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The intellect is made blind by these three passions:

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The advantage of praying during the night

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  • Prayer
Jan 28 2017
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This is the advantage of praying during the night; night is a shield against thoughts, against images and feelings. Try to be

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Why God gave us time?

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  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
Jan 27 2017
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Do not forget these words: God has given you time to build

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Evil does not exist

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Saint John of Damascus
  • Victory over death
Jan 26 2017
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The Holy Fathers say that evil in and of itself does not exist. Evil is a distortion of reality. Evil is the desperate attempt of a thought

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How to deal with your talents – Photo journal from Theophany – part 2: Liturgy (Audio)

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Jan 25 2017
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Be humble about your talents. Be thankful for your gifts. Be giving in your

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St. Paisios: Why we don’t have miracles anymore? – Photo report from Theophany – part 1: The Vigil

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Miracles
Jan 24 2017
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Today, increased knowledge and trust in logic has, unfortunately, shaken our faith to its foundations and filled our souls with

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About thoughts, discrimination and real knowledge

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
Jan 23 2017
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One man received a thought and accepted it without examination. Another received a thought and

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How and when is manifested the Grace of the Holy Spirit

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Prayer
  • Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
Jan 22 2017
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The grace of the Holy Spirit which is given mystically to every Christian when he is baptized acts and is manifested in proportion to

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Which are the differences between God’s voice and devil’s voice

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Prayer
Jan 21 2017
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God’s voice fills you with peace, leads you, reassures you, enlightens you, encourages you, comforts you, calms you and convicts you. Satan’s voice rushes you, pushes you, frightens you,

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What is wrong with us?

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Prayer
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 20 2017
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What is wrong with us? We believe that we will correct God with our inventions. We turn night into day so that

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The categories of men in Church

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Jan 19 2017
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In the Church there is human-divine cooperation through history for deification. The real, charismatic Church is

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Do not judge. You don’t know from what storm the other comes – an amazing photo journal

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Obedience
Jan 18 2017
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Do not judge. You don’t know from what storm the other person has come. You don’t know

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Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness?

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  • Father Seraphim Rose
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Repentance
Jan 17 2017
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Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because

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Which is the difference between who you are and who you want to be

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  • Love
Jan 16 2017
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The difference between who you are and who you want to be is

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A horse alone

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jan 15 2017
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A horse when alone often imagines that it is galloping, but when

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Who sees the divine care?

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Jan 14 2017
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Divine care surrounds all human beings all the time, but it is only seen by those who

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Where does the knowledge of created things come from?

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  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Prayer
Jan 13 2017
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Saint Gregory Palamas teaches that knowledge of created things comes from doing virtuous deeds. And when asked what the aim of virtuous deeds is, he writes:

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Faith, hope and love

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jan 12 2017
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And now, finally, after all that we have said, there remain these three that bind and secure the union of all, faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love, for God Himself is so called. And (as far as I can make out) I see the one as

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Unity heals, separation wounds – Photo Journal from the service of Holy Unction (Audio)

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Love
Jan 11 2017
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Unity heals, separation wounds. This is true both in the Church and in the family. That’s why we

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Now we suffer from civilization

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Jan 10 2017
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What have we achieved in this century with our ‘civilization’? We have driven people mad and have polluted the atmosphere and the environment. When

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Who is intelligent?

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Anthony the Great
Jan 09 2017
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Men are often called intelligent wrongly. Intelligent men are not those who are erudite in the sayings and books of the wise men of old, but those who

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How to reach the perfect peace of love

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  • Love
Jan 08 2017
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In order to reach to perfect peace of love you must struggle to

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The one who disobeys the Church doesn’t believe in Christ

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
Jan 07 2017
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The one who disobeys the Church, in fact doesn’t believe in Christ because

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Patient endurance kills the despair

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Peter of Damaskos
Jan 06 2017
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Patient endurance kills the despair that kills the soul; it teaches the soul to

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Humility is obtained by obedience

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jan 05 2017
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I once asked one of the most experienced fathers and pressed him to tell me how humility is obtained by obedience. He said:

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The pride of our academy are our saints – Photo Journal from the Feast of Holy Founders. Part 2: The Liturgy (Audio)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Prayer
Jan 04 2017
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The pride of our academy are our saints. This gives us the reason to continue. From Saint Philaret of Moscow and Saint Theopan the Recluse till

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Prayer: our source of happiness – Photo Journal from the Feast of Holy Founders – Part 1: The Vigil

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  • Prayer
Jan 03 2017
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all, because

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What is “the mind of the Church”?

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Prayer
Jan 02 2017
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A great deal is being said today about acquiring the mind of the Church. Sometimes, however, we do not know just what the mind of the Church is. We identify it with a blind obedience to some general laws or

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