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The Holy Communion does not make people sick – photo journal from the Chapel of Holy Unmercenary Healers

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Victory over death
Mar 23 2020
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Holy Communion does not make people sick because the Holy Communion is truly the real Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the giver of life. Let us not forget that this teaching is basic in the Church which has passed through the history of pandemics much harsher than the one which we pass today.

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How to start the spiritual life

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • 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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The carnal thought: how to fight it

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  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Sleep and vigil
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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
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  • Prayer
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  • 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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Elder Joseph Hesycast, Elders Daniil and Ephraim of Katounakia officially entered today in the Church’s Calendar

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  • Victory over death
Mar 09 2020
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Today, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate officially included in the calendar of the Church the Saints Joseph the Hesychast (Elder Joseph), Ephraim of Katounakia and Daniil of Katounakia.

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Great Lent: Why Does It Hold Forty Days?

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Repentance
Mar 01 2020
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Many wonder why Great Lent holds forty days. To be very accurate, Great Lent does not last forty days but thirty-six days. However, people generally think it holds forty days.

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The ones who learn to die will be free

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patra
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Seneca
  • Theodoros Kolokotronis
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • 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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How a monk begins, lives and succeeds – photo journal from a tonsure at a cell

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  • Despair and Discouragement
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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
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  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • 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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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Reality is our game

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • Victory over death
Feb 13 2020
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We must never forget that reality is our game. Do not say: ‘I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.’ For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you, as if you were passing through a house from one room to another. It is not helpful to know what comes later before you have done what comes first. For knowledge without action ‘puffs up’, but ‘love edifies’, because it ‘patiently accepts all things’ (1 Cor. […]

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The eight evil thoughts – Photo Journal from the feast of Saint Ephraim the Syrian (Audio)

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ephraim the Syrian
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 10 2020
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Know that there are eight evil thoughts that bring about all that is vile: those of sensuality, lechery, love of money, anger, inappropriate grief, despondency, vainglory and pride. All these wage warfare against every person.

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What you want to know about despondency

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jan 17 2020
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As we have already frequently said, this—we mean despondency—is very often one of the branches of talkativeness, and its first child.

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The woodcutter – A photo journal from the woods

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Miracles
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 15 2020
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In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain.

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Defeat is a state of mind

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Ambrose of Optina
Jan 09 2020
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Boredom is the grandson of depression, and laziness is the daughter. To send her away, labor actively – do not be lazy in prayer, then boredom will pass and zeal will come. And if you add to this zeal day by day with patience and humility, then you will escape much evil.

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How to approach the New Testament

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 13 2019
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If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge, then every good thing will be yours. You will fill your mind with the divine light. Then, when you apply that light to the doctrines of the Church, you will very easily recognize everything that is true and unadulterated, and lay it up in the hidden treasures of your soul.

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Elder Ephraim (Moraitis) of Philoteou, Arizona – Photo Journal with his life

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
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  • Obedience
  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 08 2019
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Elder Archimandrite Ephraim (Ioannis Moraitis – June 24, 1927) was an archimandrite and former abbot of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos, spiritual guide of four monasteries on Mount Athos and of eight women’s convents in Greece, as well as the founder of 19 monasteries in the United States and Canada. He resided in Arizona at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery until his repose (December 7, 2019).

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The testament of Saint Porphyriros: a proof of his humbleness

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 05 2019
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My dear spiritual Children, While I’m still în charge of my faculties, I’d like to give you some advice.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Every vice leads in the end to forbidden pleasure and every virtue to blessing

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
Nov 28 2019
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God is the source of every virtue, as the sun is of daylight. So, when you have done something good, remember the words ‘without Me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5).

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Why Saint Andrew is the First-Called – Photo journal from his chapel

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
Nov 27 2019
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We say that Saint Andrew together with Saint John the Theologian were the first apostles of Christ, as the Gospel according to John teaches us:

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Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: Not everyone will be saved

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  • Sleep and vigil
Nov 25 2019
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Struggle with all your power to gain Paradise. And do not listen to those who say that everyone will be saved. This is trap of Satan so that we would not struggle.

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How to gain our true liberty

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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Nov 21 2019
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With God’s grace, you will gain your true liberty: you will have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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How to use loneliness – a photo journal from a Divine Liturgy

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  • Dispassion
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  • Miracles
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Nov 13 2019
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Loneliness – voluntarily or not – is your time for prayer and knowing God better. This knowledge comes mainly via prayer because prayer is the union of the mind with God.

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Saint Daniel of Katounakia: The power of blessing

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
Nov 05 2019
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There was a young monk/brother who was puffed up with pride about his abilities. He was very strong, with a lot of dexterity and, hence, he could work a lot and, also, do a lot of prostrations.

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Saint Eprhaim of Katounakia: Everyone has a cross to carry

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Nov 02 2019
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Everyone has a cross to carry. Why? Since the leader of our faith endured the cross, we will also endure it.

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It is necessary for us to forget our good actions

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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Oct 25 2019
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Why do you constantly recall what you’ve done, and bring it up to us? Don’t you know that if you praise yourself, God won’t praise you anymore? And in the same way, if you deplore yourself, he will never stop proclaiming you in front of everyone.

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How the saints heal their brothers – Photo journal from fishing

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Oct 24 2019
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How can we put up with these things unless it is because we have no true love? If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor’s shortcomings.

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The warrior is not someone who fights

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Oct 19 2019
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The warrior is not someone who fights, For no one has the right to take another life.

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Hi, Jesus! I am Yannis!

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  • Renunciation of the world
Oct 17 2019
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There was once a simple man named Yannis who loved Jesus greatly. Because of his medical condition, however, he couldn’t do anything in order to find a job. Finally, an Elder took pity on him and brought him to his monastery.

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We need to respect the small things because paradise isn’t for the sinless

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
Oct 16 2019
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When there’s respect for small things, there’ll be even greater respect towards the bigger ones. When there’s no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

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The vanity and vainglory – our restless enemies

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Vices and virtues
Oct 14 2019
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All vices grow feeble when conquered, and when beaten are day by day made weaker, and lessen and subside both in place and time—or at any rate, as they are unlike the opposite virtues, are more easily shunned and avoided.

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Orthodox survival guide – photo journal from a waterfall

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
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  • Obedience
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  • Prayer
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  • Vices and virtues
Oct 09 2019
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The day-by-day spiritual life of an orthodox layman should be settled between him and his priest, in accordance with the Holy Tradition of the Church. This is the norm and the best way to do so.

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