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Self love is the cause of all impassioned thoughts

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
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  • Dispassion
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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
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Jan 31 2020
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Self love, as has often been said, is the cause of all impassioned thoughts. For from it are produced the three principal thoughts of desire; those of gluttony, avarice and self-esteem. From gluttony is born the thought of unchastity; from avarice, the thought of greed; from self-esteem, the thought of pride.

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Accept your falls

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Makarios
  • Saint Nektarios of Aegina
Jan 30 2020
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Patiently accept your falls and, having stood up, immediately run to God, not remaining in that place where you have fallen.

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The last words of Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo on Mount Athos – photo journal from his last Divine Liturgy

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  • Love
  • Victory over death
Jan 29 2020
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From the last words of Metropolitan Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo on the Holy Mountain: Love is not measured among virtues. Love does not count together with fasting, prayer, etc. Love is the purpose and the driving force of all virtues. The virtues build a new person, radiating love to the world. So, as Saint John Chrysostom says, you do not have to be among people to be the true friend of people. True friendship is love—not spatial or temporal closeness. Look at the monks: everybody looks for them, and the pilgrims come from far away to see them, because they […]

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Philokalia: Definition, History, and Source

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Informational
Jan 28 2020
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Many believe that the Philokalia is a book written by Saint Nicodemus the Athonite. In fact, this book—as that understand of the book—does not actually exist.

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The path of God

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Ephraim of Arizona
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Jan 27 2020
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Grief will succeed joy, and joy, grief, just as night follows day. This is how the Father of lights has established the path of God for those who are being saved. Just have patience and hope: engrave these in the depths of your heart and all adversities will be faced.

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Karyes, Mount Athos

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  • Mount Athos
Jan 26 2020
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The town of Karyes is the administrative center for the monastic republic of Mount Athos. The town is located in the middle of the peninsula at an elevation of a little over 1,000 feet (370 meters). The town is the seat of the governing body of Mount Athos and of the protos (primate) of the monastic community.

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How the many became sinners

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Cyril of Alexandria
  • Victory over death
Jan 25 2020
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After Adam fell by sin and sank into corruption, at once impure pleasures rushed in, and the law of the jungle sprang up in our members. So nature became sick with sin through the disobedience of one, Adam. Then the many became sinners, not as fellow transgressors with Adam, for they did not even exist, but as being of that nature which had fallen under the law of sin. Human nature in Adam became sick through the corruption of disobedience, and thus the passions entered into it.

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How to clean out our heart before praying

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  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Saint John Cassian
Jan 24 2020
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The science on how to clean out our heart before praying is very important because of the importance of prayer in our life.

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Cremation: Why not?

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Victory over death
Jan 23 2020
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Many people think that cremation is an easy solution and wonder, ‘Why not?’

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Children’s rights – photo journal from library

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  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 22 2020
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In the last 3 decades, the concept of ‘Children’s Rights’ has emerged to define their interests in international law. Although the intention is, theoretically, to be praised, ‘Children’s Rights’ is an abstract, meaningless notion, in a world separate from God.

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How to find a good spouse?

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  • Slander
Jan 21 2020
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Note: „How to find a good spouse?” is a question which is often asked by women. That’s why this text was written for women, but can equally be applied by men. First of all, pray to find a good spouse. Our Lord and His holy Mother are the primary source of aid for such matters. It is best to…

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: self-justification and humility exclude one another

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  • Dispassion
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  • Obedience
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  • Repentance
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
Jan 20 2020
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He who secretly mingles his own wishes with obedience is an adulterer, as the Book of Proverbs indicates (cf. Prov. 6:32-33); and because of his stupidity he suffers pain and dishonor.

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The multiple meanings of the baptism of Saint John – Photo journal from Theophany

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  • Love
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  • Saint Theophylactos of Ochrid
Jan 19 2020
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The baptism of Saint John had not remission of sins, but only brought men to penitence. He preached therefore the baptism of repentance, that is, he preached that to which the baptism of penitence led, namely, remission of sins, that they who in penitence received Christ, might receive Him to the remission of their sins.

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How to become a monk on Mount Athos

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  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 18 2020
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First of all, if you want to come to Mount Athos and become a monk, you must be sure that you are free of legal bindings. One of the most common bindings, is of one’s debts in this world, which you must to pay yourself. Another binding is that of marriage.

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What you want to know about despondency

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jan 17 2020
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As we have already frequently said, this—we mean despondency—is very often one of the branches of talkativeness, and its first child.

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My apocalypse

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Jan 16 2020
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Generally speaking, by “apocalypse” (ἀποκάλυψις) the people understand “revelation” or, more literally, “uncovering”. The term is tied, mainly, with Saint John Theologian’s work – Book of Revelation – from the New Testament which describes using pseudonymity and symbolic imagery for the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom.

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The woodcutter – A photo journal from the woods

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Jan 15 2020
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In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain.

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Distinguishing the work of grace and the work of deception – photo journal from the New Year

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Jan 14 2020
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In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work is of grace and the other work is of the deception of demons. Yet still, we can divide the twofold work into three, if we also consider the body—thus, there is a triple warmth of this energy which burns in people: one of grace, a second of deception or sin, and a third of a surplus of blood, from natural causes—of which, this latter can be quenched and brought to order through measured restraint and abstinence. Work of grace First, […]

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The irrationality of war

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  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 13 2020
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Someone which isn’t warmed by the love of others, will start a fire around him in order to warm himself. This is the irrationality of war in a society without God.

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The church of Protaton, Karyes, Mount Athos

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Jan 12 2020
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Karyes has been the seat of the self-governing body of Mount Athos and the seat of the ‘protos’ since the 10th century. At that time the settlement comprised some small older monasteries and the residences of representatives of distant ones.

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How should a husband speak to his wife

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  • Victory over death
Jan 11 2020
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A husband full of grace should speak to his wife like this:

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What is death in the Bible

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  • Saint Gregory Palamas
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Jan 10 2020
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Many ask what is death in the Bible. According with the Bible, as the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.

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Defeat is a state of mind

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  • Saint Ambrose of Optina
Jan 09 2020
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Boredom is the grandson of depression, and laziness is the daughter. To send her away, labor actively – do not be lazy in prayer, then boredom will pass and zeal will come. And if you add to this zeal day by day with patience and humility, then you will escape much evil.

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Saint Joseph the Hesychast was anti-medicines then later opened up to them

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Jan 08 2020
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My child, I hope you are well. Just recently, I got somewhat better too. This is how my life has passed, with pain and illnesses. Now I have approached death once again for your sake. I said, “Let me die, only let my spiritual children live.” And I didn’t eat at all.

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The kondakion of Nativity is of divine inspiration – photo report from Nativity

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Jan 07 2020
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During the reign of Emperor Anastasios I (491-518), a young deacon moved to Constantinople. He led an ascetic life of prayer and fasting, but in his humility he thought of himself as being rather worldly.

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Why the baptism of Jesus is so important?

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
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  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
Jan 06 2020
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The Baptism of the Jesus is a very important feast because, in fact, the Holy Trinity presented themselves to humanity at the baptism of the Lord.

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The flag of Mount Athos: the double-headed eagle flag

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Jan 05 2020
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The modern double-headed eagle flag for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and of Mount Athos, features the eagle with an orb with a cross in the right claw symbolizing spiritual authority, and a sword in the left symbolizing secular authority.

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About Irrational Anger and Lust

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  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of death
  • Saint Gregory the Sinaite
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 04 2020
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The soul, being created rational and understandable by the life-giving breath of God, was not created at once with irrational anger and lust, but with the power of desire and, along with that, with the force of love.

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Why God gave us spacetime continuum

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  • Victory over death
Jan 03 2020
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Our good God gave us Time to draw us closer to Him, and space to draw us closer to each other. However, we can’t approach God without approaching ourselves, and vice versa, because of this, we have the notion of a spacetime continuum.

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I don’t enjoy church, does that mean I’m going to Hell?

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Jan 02 2020
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Many put this question: If I don’t enjoy church, does that mean that I’m going to Hell?

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