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The mystery of the Holy Unction: Miracles

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
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Apr 08 2020
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Holy Unction during pandemic is one of the most necessary services, however it seems that it is performed much less than it should. Below you will read some miracles tied to the mystery of Holy Unction.

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When will the trial we go through be over?

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • New Testament
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint Dorotheos of Gaza
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Apr 07 2020
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When will the trial we go through be over? When will the good news come? The answer is in us.

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Saint Mary of Egypt and the Holy Communion

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  • New Testament
  • Vices and virtues
Apr 05 2020
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Saint Mary of Egypt struggled in desert for forty-seven years without receiving Holy Communion. As it is known, the saint retired to the wilderness to repent of her very desolate life.

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The types of sadness – photo journal from the Akathist Hymn

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Apr 04 2020
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The Akathist Hymn is the most widely used hymn to honor the Virgin Mary. The word “Rejoice” is the most widely used word in the akathist hymn and this, according to the spiritual law, is due to the fact that sadness was the most present in the life of the Virgin.

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The Akathist Hymn: ode to the Invincible General

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory the Theologian
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Victory over death
Apr 02 2020
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Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom to celebrate Kontakia (a type of hymn) during the Pannychis (festive night vigil celebrated at the Blachernae chapel), the Akathist had also the function to celebrate military victories or to ask, during wars, for divine protection intermediated by prayers of the Mother of God, the Invincible General.

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Which is the Beginning of the Gospel?

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  • New Testament
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
Apr 01 2020
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Do not think that knowing the beginning of the gospel is a minor thing. God is perfect and does not leave to chance a thing like the beginning of the gospel.

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Prophecies about the pandemic – Photo journal with a great schema service

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Elder Ilarion Argatu
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina
Mar 31 2020
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In times of trial, people draw closer to God, which is why God also has to allow such trials, in times when mankind settles onto the wrong path.

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Fear: how to deal with it

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  • Abba Isaiah
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Saint Makarios
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
  • Saint Symeon the New Theologian
  • Victory over death
Mar 30 2020
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The demon of fear that tempts you, saying „Where can you flee? You have no repentance; you have no escape”, belongs to the enemy who is trying to make you lose self-control, whereas godly sadness does not attack you, but says, „Do not be afraid; try again”, for it knows that humanity is weak, and strengthens us.

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Saint Nikephoros the Leper appears in Bulgaria and gives the cure for Coronavirus

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Saint Nikephoros the Leper
  • Sleep and vigil
Mar 29 2020
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“…… I learned from the internet that the journalist Angel Bonchev was preparing a book about the unknown for us Saint Nikephoros the Leper, at a critical moment when the world was covered by the coronavirus pandemic and thousands died, killed by this new plague.

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What is normal? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Ken Kesey
  • Tradition, learning and education
Mar 27 2020
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In fact, what is normal in a world in which one flies East, another flies West and another flies over the cuckoo’s nest?

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The types of prayer

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  • Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Mar 26 2020
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There are many ways in which we can categorize the types of prayer. A simple one is the following:

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The Silence of the Children – Photo journal from Annunciation (Great Saturday) – Part 2: The Liturgy (Audio)

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 25 2020
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The Archangel Gabriel said to the Virgin Mary, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you amongst women.” Hidden meanings in the words of the Mother of God

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How to start the spiritual life

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Obedience
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Mar 21 2020
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Those of us who wish to start the spiritual life, to go out of the wordly things, to go out of Egypt and to fly from Pharaoh, certainly need some Moses as a mediator with God and from God, who, standing between action and contemplation, will raise hands of prayer for us to God, so that guided by Him we may cross the sea of sin and rout the Amalek of the passions.

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Embrace the change

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Saint Anthony the Great
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 19 2020
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We must embrace the change. It is pointless to continuously resist. We must cut off our will in front of others.

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Enjoy the Silence

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Mar 16 2020
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Many times I regretted that I spoke; I have never regretted keeping silent. Enjoy the Silence!

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The carnal thought: how to fight it

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  • Dispassion
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  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
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Mar 14 2020
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He who drives away the carnal thought by prayer is like someone fighting with a lion; he who subdues him by his resistance is someone still pursuing his enemy; but he who has once for all reduced its appeal to nothing, even though he is still in the flesh, is as one who has already risen from his coffin.

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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
  • Victory over death
Mar 13 2020
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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil. A sensible man knows that suffering is not evil but only the manifestation of evil and healing from evil. Only sin in a man is a real evil, and there is no evil outside sin.

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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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Mar 12 2020
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How did Saint Joseph the Hesychast live his life and reach holiness? Read a fragment from one of his letters:

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Amphilochios of Montenegro: We forgot the God-Man

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  • Metropolitan Amphilochios of Montenegro
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Mar 10 2020
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The essence of the church is synodicity (synergy). The biggest problem of mankind today is that they have forgotten the Jesus which is God-Man, and therefore our heavenly purpose.

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Sin and repentance

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  • Repentance
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 07 2020
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Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said? Satan upsets the order; he gives the courage to sin and the shame to repentance.

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Koliva: Definition and the Miracle of Saint Theodor Tyron – Photo Journal with Koliva

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Mar 06 2020
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Koliva: Definition Koliva is a dish, consisting of boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead.

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What is true fasting

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  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
Mar 05 2020
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True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows.

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About mind – the noetic part (aspect) of the soul

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  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 03 2020
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The mind (νους) is the finest attention, the human focus, the eye of the soul. If someone is focused on God and His rays – that is on God’s uncreated energy called grace, then the human mind has the property to receive light, to be enlightened like a pure parabolic mirror on which these rays fall.

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The fountain of tears is greater than baptism – photo journal from the Vespers of Forgiveness

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
Mar 02 2020
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Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but we cleanse it anew with tears. And if God in His love for mankind had not given us tears, few indeed and hard to find would be those in a state of grace.

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The ones who learn to die will be free

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  • Victory over death
Feb 29 2020
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A nation without faith in God does not become free, neither advances further as a civilization. Only in this way we can assure for our children the heavenly inheritance, the only one true inheritance which truly remains even after death.

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We forget that the Last Judgement is based on mercy

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  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Victory over death
Feb 28 2020
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One should not think about the doings of God when one’s stomach is full; on a full stomach there can be no vision of the Divine mysteries.

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About sickness, demons and fasting

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  • Saint John the Prophet from Gaza
  • Sleep and vigil
Feb 27 2020
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The disciple’s question Father, I suffer terribly from rheumatism, and I am afraid that it is from demons. Tell me if this is so. What is it, then, that I see in dreams, on the wall, some wild beasts? I am very upset because I cannot fast and I am forced to eat a lot. What should I do? The answer of the Elder

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How a monk begins, lives and succeeds – photo journal from a tonsure at a cell

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  • Renunciation of the world
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Victory over death
Feb 25 2020
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The man who has come to hate the world has escaped sorrow. But he who has an attachment to anything visible is not yet delivered from grief. For how is it possible not to be sad at the loss of something we love?

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Operation mindcrime

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  • Dispassion
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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
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Feb 22 2020
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The nous (mind, intellect) which has rebelled against God becomes either bestial or demonic and, after having rebelled against the laws of nature, lusts after what belongs to others.

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How to preach to others

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  • Elder Thaddeos of Vitovnica
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  • Saint Ignatios of Antioch
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Feb 21 2020
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You ask, will the others be saved… Why do you worry about them? They have a Savior Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such a concern. Study yourself and your own sins and not so much how to preach to others.

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