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The Akathist Hymn: ode to the Invincible General

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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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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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Saint Paisios the Athonite: How Jesus Christ looked like?

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Feb 04 2020
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While praying to Christ, I felt a certain difficulty. The Mother of God – She was just like my own Mother to me. The same was with St. Euphemia. “My dear Saint Euphemia”, I addressed to her… But it was difficult to pray to Christ. I venerated His icons with fear. When during the Jesus Prayer my mind began to distract from prayer, I did not upset me at all. “Who am I to constantly keep Christ in my poor mind?” – I said to myself. And then something happened what I want to tell you about.

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We need to simplify our life

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  • 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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What is wrong with us?

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 20 2017
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What is wrong with us? We believe that we will correct God with our inventions. We turn night into day so that

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Now we suffer from civilization

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Jan 10 2017
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What have we achieved in this century with our ‘civilization’? We have driven people mad and have polluted the atmosphere and the environment. When

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St. Paisios the Athonite: How to find time for everything, including prayer

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Nov 25 2016
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In order for you to have time for prayer you must not concern yourself with things that other people can do. Let’s take an example.

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St. Paisios the Athonite: Wandering of the mind is a sign of…

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Nov 13 2016
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If you notice that your mind constantly wanders off to various chores that you have to do, you must realize that

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St. Paisios’ definition of philotimo

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Oct 07 2016
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Remember the Blessed Elder’s definition of philotimo: “The reverent distillation of

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We do need competitors

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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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The feast of Saint Paisios held by his disciples (Photo Report)

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Jul 27 2016
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We must not ask God for charismatic gifts but for repentance. The one who seek repentance will find…

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God will have the last word

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Jul 08 2016
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What I see around me would drive…

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Why we must take care with children

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Jul 04 2016
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The name you scratch on the bark of a tree will…

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The main purpose of the Divine Liturgy

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Jul 03 2016
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The main purpose of the Divine Liturgy is the reception of communion by the faithful, even if only by those few who are prepared. Almost all the prayers read by the priest are for those who will receive the Holy Eucharist. That’s why at least one should receive holy communion at the Liturgy. Based on Saint Paisios the Athonite In this photo Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada is praying during the Great Entrance.

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Avoid negative thoughts at any cost

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Jun 29 2016
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We should never, even under the worst circumstances, allow a negative thought to penetrate our soul. The…

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They’re at odds with each other

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May 14 2016
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When people who are Christians in name only ask us to solve their differences (when they’re at loggerheads) we should agree, but as long as they also accept a solution from the Gospel, because any other solution is just a constant headache with aspirins. “Saint Païsios the Athonite”

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God’s providence

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Apr 03 2016
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Nothing happens without God’s providence, and wherever there’s God’s providence it’s certain that whatever happens, however bitter it may be, will bring benefit to the soul. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Give and take

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Mar 24 2016
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If you give all your love to God, you’ll receive all of His in return, to pass on to other people. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Sacrifice everything

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Mar 12 2016
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Sacrifice everything for Christ. For Christ, though, not for anything or anyone. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Why do people divorce?

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Jan 09 2016
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People divorce because of their sensuality and their egotism. Nothing else. All the other reasons are invented afterwards to justify what they’ve done. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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The liberation of Cyprus

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Jan 05 2016
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‘Cyprus will be liberated when the Cypriotes repent. Make spiritual bases and get rid of those of the Turks, the British and the Americans’. So he saw the Cyprus problem as a spiritual issue, not a political or national one. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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A truly humble person

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Jan 01 2016
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A truly humble person never behaves like a teacher; he will listen, and, whenever his opinion is requested, he responds humbly. In other words, he replies like a student. He who believes that he is capable of correcting others is filled with egotism. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”  

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A Christian must not be fanatical

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Dec 30 2015
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A Christian must not be fanatical; he must have love for and be sensitive towards all people. Those who inconsiderately toss out comments, even if they are true, can cause harm. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”  

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Immaterial vs nylon

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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Dec 25 2015
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There’s more grace in one of God’s little flowers that in a whole bunch of artificial paper ones. In the same way, the immaterial [aïlon] differs greatly from the nylon. “Venerable Païsios the Athonite”

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The path of our life

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Dec 13 2015
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The path of our life here on earth is deceptive and misleading. To those taking their first steps, it seems endless and full of activity. To those who’ve reached the end, it seems very short and full of hollow dreams. “Saint Païsios the Athonite”

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A Christian must not be fanatical

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Oct 29 2015
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A Christian must not be fanatical; he must have love for and be sensitive towards all people. Those who inconsiderately toss out comments, even if they are true, can cause harm. I once met a theologian who was extremely pious, but who had the habit of speaking to the secular people around him in a very blunt manner; his method penetrated so deeply that it shook them very severely. He told me once: “During a gathering, I said such and such a thing to a lady.” But the way that he said it, crushed her. “Look”, I said to him, […]

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Pride and envy

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Oct 29 2015
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By their nature, men have a bigger dose of pride but, if to the smaller dose that women have you add envy, then the devil becomes more intolerable than this poisonous dose of male pride. “Saint Païsios the Athonite”

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Putting yourself in the place of others

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Oct 16 2015
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Putting yourself in the place of other people is a great aid in acquiring internal kindness, because then love comes naturally, as do pain, humility, and gratitude to God through continuous hymns of praise and prayer of the heart for our neighbor. Then our prayer is both well-pleasing to God and helps our fellow human beings. “Saint Païsios the Athonite”

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The other village

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Oct 07 2015
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The great thing is for people to realize the deeper meaning of life: that we’re here temporarily and we have to get ready for the other village where will live permanently. “Saint Païsios the Athonite”

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Elder Paisios of Mount Athos: The children, their joys and their difficulties

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Oct 04 2015
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Q.: Elder, why does God give people a guardian angel, when He can protect us Himself? A.: That’s God looking after us especially carefully. The guardian angel is God’s providence. And we’re indebted to Him for that. The angels particularly protect little children. And you wouldn’t believe how! There were two children once, playing in the street. One of them aimed at the other to hit him on the head with a stone. The other one didn’t notice. At the last moment, apparently, his angel drew his attention to something else, he leapt up and got out of the way. […]

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