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The real victory comes through pain

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Victory over death
Aug 17 2019
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If you want to serve God, prepare your heart not for food, not for drink, not for rest, not for ease, but for suffering, so that you may endure all temptations, trouble and sorrow.

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At the approach of the great festivals you must be especially watchful

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Aug 15 2019
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At the approach of the great feasts, you must be especially watchful over yourself.

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How to protect yourself from demons

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Prayer
Aug 12 2019
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Jesus said “This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

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Freedom in Christ

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  • Dispassion
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  • Remembrance of wrongs
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  • Victory over death
Aug 10 2019
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

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Healthy food: healthy life – Photo Journal from the Kitchen

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  • Informational
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  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
Aug 07 2019
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Many wonder why and how monks can live a longer and healthier life, compared with the people of the world outside of Mount Athos.

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Having food and clothing let us be with these things content

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
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Jul 19 2019
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Let us now speak in particular about the interior man. A wheel, as you know, rests upon the ground with a very slight base. Nor does it merely rest; it rolls along; it does not stand still but barely touches the ground and passes on.

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Smile and be happy, but don’t laugh

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  • Prayer
May 21 2019
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Let us consider two sentences: 1. I am very happy when I see you. 2. I laugh a lot when I see you. Are these two sentences equal?

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Escaping from Pharaoh

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
May 07 2019
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Fasting is a means and not an end. It is “a tool for training those who desire self-restraint.” Without fasting, it is almost impossible to conquer the passions and attain dispassion.

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The easiest passions in communities

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
Apr 16 2019
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While struggling against all passions, let us who are in communities struggle every hour, especially against these two:

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Why we fast and mourn? – Photo journal from Vespers of Forgiveness

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
Mar 01 2017
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Mourning, according to God, is sadness of soul, and the disposition of a sorrowing heart, which ever madly seeks that for which it thirsts; and when it

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The blindness of the intellect

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  • Saint Hesychius the Priest
Jan 29 2017
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The intellect is made blind by these three passions:

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Why we eat?

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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Dec 29 2016
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Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not

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Fight with determination

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  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Vices and virtues
Apr 27 2016
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Love of pleasure opens the door of our soul to the enemy. If you fight this with firm resolve, then it will be very difficult for any passion to overcome you. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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Strong eyes

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Apr 13 2016
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Just as a healthy eye desires the light, so, if fasting’s undertaken with discretion, it’s followed by a desire for prayer. “Saint Isaac the Syrian”

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It’s not food

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  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Mar 14 2016
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It’s not food or favourable living conditions that ensure our health. It’s a holy life, the life of Christ. I know ascetics who fasted very strictly and never had anything wrong with them. Nobody risks getting ill from fasting. Nobody’s ever done so. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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A fast such as that is useless

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  • Repentance
Dec 10 2015
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Bodily fasting needs to be accompanied by a spiritual fast. There is, for example, no point in abstaining from certain foods, on the one hand, but, on the other, reviling people. A saintly ascetic once said: ‘It’s better to eat meat and drink wine than to eat the flesh of your brothers and sisters with whispers and censure’. Fasting also loses its meaning when it’s separated from love. Lots of people fast meticulously, they observe the letter of the rules for fasting, but retain hatred for their brothers and sisters in their hearts. They won’t even wish them “Good day” […]

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The fasting as a knife

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 08 2015
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Fasting isn’t an end, but rather a means for purification from the passions. This is why the Fathers liken it to a sword or a knife which cuts off the passions.  

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The Cross as a Means of Sanctification and Transformation of the World

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  • father Dumitru Staniloae
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  • Love
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  • Victory over death
Sep 14 2015
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Through the Cross, Christ sanctified His body- the link with the world. He rejected the temptations sent to Him by the world, that is to taste the pleasures, to satisfy His needs unrestrained or to avoid pain and death. If we, in the same way, ward off the temptations of sin and patiently suffer the pain of death, sanctity can spread from His body to all bodies and throughout the world. The Orthodox Church doesn’t say that, through the Cross, Christ left the creation, but that He restored it to paradise- the paradise of virtue for those who, out of […]

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The span of a raven

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
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  • Victory over death
Aug 28 2015
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God didn’t send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal life that awaits us.

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Restraint in all things

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  • Saint Isidore of Pelusium
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Aug 20 2015
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No fasting from food is of any benefit to those who don’t fast from their other feelings,

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“What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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Jun 04 2015
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An the word of Lord came to Elijah: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He replied,…

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Skete of Saint Demetrios: a view of a typical monastic settlement on Mount Athos

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Mar 08 2015
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View of a typical monastic settlement on Mount Athos. It is hidden away in a dense forest, in a peaceful area conducive to prayer and spiritual development. A person must live like an exile from this world in order to…

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Why we perform the virtues?

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  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
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Feb 28 2015
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The self-controlled refrain from gluttony; those who have renounced possessions, from greed; the tranquil, from loquacity; the pure, from…

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Learn to Know and Deal with Your Masters

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Gregory of Nyssa
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Feb 21 2015
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For the whole array of passions: wrath, fear, cowardice, impudence, depression as well as pleasure, hatred, strife and merciless cruelty, envy as well as flattery, brutality together with brooding over injuries — they are all many despotic masters…

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The Divine Liturgy of St James – Full Photo Essay with Descriptions

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Feb 18 2015
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God’s action in creation and creation’s role in our journey towards God culminate in the…

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How to Make Major Decisions

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Feb 05 2015
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It is a shame to cut down or destroy a tree recklessly, but…

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Avoid pride: it will make your virtues stink

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
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  • Obedience
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Feb 02 2015
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People who work for Christ, but with pride, make their virtues smell bad.  It’s like if you’re…

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Raising Young Ones

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Jan 18 2015
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In truth there is only one freedom…

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How to Become the First One

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  • Dispassion
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  • New Testament
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  • Saint Silouan the Athonite
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Jan 17 2015
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With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God

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The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one

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Jan 11 2015
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“The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one”. Material things with their

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