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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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Embrace the change

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • 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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Victory over death
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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast was anti-medicines then later opened up to them

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Victory over death
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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God always helps, but take care…

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Prayer
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Dec 23 2016
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God always helps. He always comes in time, but

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Avoid with all your power negligence

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Vices and virtues
Sep 29 2016
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Avoid with all your power negligence! Self-esteem corrupts treasures that have been amassed, while negligence

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We do need competitors

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Slander
Aug 19 2016
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The one who says that the righteous man should not have sorrows is like he is saying that…

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We need patience

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Aug 08 2016
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The Lord sends his enlightenment only to them whose hearts with all their strength endure and thirst for the truth. That’s why…

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How the Church acts upon us

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Prayer
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Jul 29 2016
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The Church, through the church and Divine service, acts upon the entire man, educates him wholly; acts upon his…

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Don’t foster sorrows

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Apr 02 2016
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Don’t foster sorrows in your heart because the joy of the evil one is sorrow and despondency, which beget many things which fill the soul with bitterness. “Saint Joseph the Hesychast”

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The fire of thoughts

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Jan 15 2016
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Avoid bad thoughts as if they were flames pay absolutely no attention to them so that they don’t consume you “Saint Joseph the Hesychast”

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Attracting the Grace

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Oct 27 2015
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Grace is attracted by warmth and zeal, but is lost through indifference and laxity.

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Saddening temptations

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Slander
Oct 10 2015
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Temptations in their various forms sadden people, so that they seek divine assistance all the more, and with tears. This is a dispensation of Divine Providence, in order to strip us bare. “Saint Joseph the Hesychast”

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When prayer turns into deception

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Sep 24 2015
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There are many ways of praying. They’re all good, if people don’t know how to pray with simplicity. But if somebody else is leading them, and they disobey, then their prayer turns and becomes deception. based on Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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Everything towards God

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Sep 17 2015
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Knowledge, sensation, understanding, contemplation, insight and every movement of the intellect, everything in all things, should be directed towards God. based on Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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What we Need to Wash the Dishes

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 03 2015
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Washing dishes is a lowly task, both in the world and in the monastery. It may be seen either as a chore to be done (or even avoided, if possible) or as one more opportunity for spiritual progress. In order for such tasks to be…

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