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What is the role of a spiritual father

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  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Nikon of Optina
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 28 2017
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A spiritual father, like a signpost, merely indicates the

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Lord is standing at the edge of your existence waiting for you

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Feb 27 2017
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At the edge of your heart the Lord is standing with a tall candle that burns without smoking or melting. The Lord is standing and waiting at your invitation, to bring the candle into your heart and

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We are perfectly different and perfectly equal

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  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
Feb 26 2017
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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. However God loves us equally and perfectly. And we should do the same: let us respect and love that we are different. Based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Self-love brings sorrow

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  • Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
Feb 25 2017
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Self-love brings sorrow and is healed by silence. That’s why

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The Church is a hospital for sinners

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  • Avva Agathon
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Prayer
Feb 24 2017
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The Church is a hospital for sinners who are fighting to become saints. That’s why I think that

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How to determine God to act

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Love
Feb 23 2017
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When you’ve done everything you can do, that’s when God

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What we need to help the others – photo journal from the Presentation of Christ – part 2: the liturgy (Audio)

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
Feb 22 2017
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Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by

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Educating children is a sacred duty – Photo Journal from the Presentation of Christ – part 1: vigil (Audio)

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  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 21 2017
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Having children is a matter of nature; but raising them and educating them in the virtues is a matter of

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Why your image of God isn’t good enough

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Robert Capa
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Feb 20 2017
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If your photos aren’t good enough then you aren’t close enough. This applies as well with regards to

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God’s commandments are beyond human limits

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 19 2017
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We can see the limits to all human “perfections” but God’s commandments are beyond that because

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Perhaps you are the most miserable person imaginable

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Feb 18 2017
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If you believe firmly that God cares for you, then you do not need to worry about the body, nor need you be concerned about

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The “I love you” of God

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  • Love
  • New Testament
  • Prayer
Feb 17 2017
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Perhaps you see yourself as a religious person. But if your tongue is out of control, you are fooling yourself. Your careless

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Elder Seraphim Rose: How God behaves with those whom He chooses?

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  • Father Seraphim Rose
  • Obedience
Feb 16 2017
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God often isolates those whom He chooses, so that we have

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The man of sorrows – Photo journal from the name day of the Abbot Ephraim – part 2: The Liturgy

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
Feb 15 2017
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their faces

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The serenity of an abbot – Photo Journal from the name day of the Abbot Ephraim – part 1: the vigil (Audio)

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Feb 14 2017
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An abbot was always very serene even if he had a big brotherhood to deal with. Once upon a time a disciple asked him: “My elder, how do you succeed in being so calm?”

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The Church is not a human organization

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  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Prayer
  • Victory over death
Feb 13 2017
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The Church is not a human organization, but a Divine-Human organism. It is not a human corporation, but the Divine-human Body of Christ. The source of the Church is

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One of the most important thing God teaches us

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
Feb 12 2017
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One of the most important things God has taught me is that I don’t need

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Creation is not an event in the past but a relationship in the present

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  • Love
  • Metropolitan of Diokleia Kallistos Ware
  • Saint Philaret of Moscow
Feb 11 2017
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Creation is not an event in the past but a relationship in the present. If God did not

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Be like a king in your heart through grace-given mourning

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 10 2017
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Be like a king in your heart, seated high in humility, and commanding laughter: Go, and it goes; and sweet weeping: Come, and it comes; and our tyrant and slave

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Don’t worry about anything

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • New Testament
  • Prayer
Feb 09 2017
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Don’t worry about anything; instead pray for everything; tell God your needs and don’t forget to thank Him for His answers. If you do this,

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God’s biggest miracle for us – photo journal from the feast of miracle-working icon of Paramythia (Audio)

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  • Love
  • Miracles
Feb 08 2017
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The miracle working icon of Paramythia (“the one who comforts”) took the name not from the big miracle which she made by escaping the monks and the monastery from pirates but from

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From death to life

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  • New Testament
  • Remembrance of death
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 07 2017
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If we live, we are living for the Lord. And if we die, we are dying for the Lord.

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What happens if we want to do something but cannot

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
Feb 06 2017
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If we want to do something but cannot, then

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The absolute renunciation of our own life: fearlessness of death

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Victory over death
Feb 05 2017
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Obedience is absolute renunciation of our own life, clearly expressed in our bodily actions. Or, conversely,

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Focus on me and not the storm

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Feb 04 2017
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In the midst of the storm, Christ tells us, “Focus on me” and not the storm; then

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Elder Seraphim Rose: Orthodoxy is life

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Father Seraphim Rose
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Feb 03 2017
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Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are

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We need to simplify our life

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Feb 02 2017
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Blessed are those who’ve managed to simplify their life and become liberated from the web of this world’s development of

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We need to learn from our ancestors – a photo report from a memorial service

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Remembrance of death
Feb 01 2017
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We need to learn about our ancestors. We need to learn from our ancestors. We need to respect our ancestors. Otherwise we will be condemned to

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