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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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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 Behave toward One’s wife

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 18 2020
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Often, husbands come and ask us how to behave toward their wives. Of course, this topic is, in the last analysis, a personal theme between you and your spiritual father (priest) but some general problems can be explained which, if resolved, we could avoid a lot of quarrels. The wife must know that she is loved The wife needs to be assured by first hand that she is loved dearly and for this she needs concrete evidence. When was the last time you told her you loved her? No, it is not enough for her to “guess”. You have to […]

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Why the prodigal son fed pigs?

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Informational
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • New Testament
  • Passion, purity and chastity
Feb 17 2020
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There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, “Father, give me my share of the estate.” So, the father divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and, there, squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So, he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. […]

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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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The four aspects (powers) of the soul

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Dec 03 2016
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We can divide the human soul into four aspects, three of which are formulated by Plato and, on the whole, are accepted by the Holy Fathers. We have two irrational aspects:

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“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God”: What sort of a camel is this?

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Dyonisius the Aeropagite
Oct 06 2016
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There is a debate going on among scholars whether it really said “camel” or rather “rope” – both words (κάμηλος/kámêlos for camel and κάμιλος/kamilos for rope) are very close to each other and might have been mistranslated. There are some early bible translations in

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How the sin appears

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Vices and virtues
Jul 28 2016
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Sin never appears as it really is, naked, abstract, because if it did, it wouldn’t deceive people’s minds so easily and make them give in. It always comes…

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Complete affection

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Love
Feb 10 2016
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We should always have complete affection in our souls, even though we may often be disappointed with the behaviour of other people towards us. “Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi”

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No infallible people

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Jan 30 2016
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Nobody’s infallible, especially when they’re still imperfect and full of badness. There are lots of things they don’t know, and they’re not very good at others. They lack experience and are fighting an unequal struggle, as well. “Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi”

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We were replacing a donkey

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Oct 31 2015
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Oh, our most holy and blessed elder and father, why did you leave us so soon, alone in the struggling arena, you who have been such a unique instructor? We are being overcome by your loss! Why did we meet you at such an early age, where we had not been mature enough to recognize who you really were? Why did you conceal yourself from our youthful eyes and we are now flooded with regret? Is it not possible for you to come back to us even for a week? Blessed were those days when even though we had been […]

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Humility: the comprehensive labour of love that supports all the other virtues

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Repentance
Sep 19 2015
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The incontrovertible judgment of the Fathers regarding the practical manner in which to achieve this God-pleasing quality is- in their experience- bodily labour and self-knowledge, and these are things which are present in everyday life. In general, the narrow path of all-inclusive Christian morality leads to the fear of God and He then becomes a guide to that which constitutes ‘sentience in God’ and the great virtues, which are ‘not to think highly of yourself’, ‘to censure yourself’ and ‘to withstand all temptations’.

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Legitimate Exercise

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
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  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Sep 04 2015
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Whatever movement you make, starting with its conception and following through to the implementation, you have to examine all the time what God will take from it. This is our legitimate exercise. Because that’s all that’ll remain; all the rest will be done away with.

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Elder, why are you happy all day long?

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Dispassion
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 27 2015
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A disciple asked an elder, “Elder, why are you happy all day long?” The elder replied,…

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