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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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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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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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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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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Serious Illness: A Revelation from God?

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Mar 11 2020
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When we have a serious illness, it does not mean that this is a revelation from God that we will die. Or, to express it more exactly, we don’t know the outcome. However, such a serious illness can be used as a revelation from God that we must prepare ourselves more intensely for death.

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The ones who learn to die will be free

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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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We forget that the Last Judgement is based on mercy

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Feb 28 2020
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One should not think about the doings of God when one’s stomach is full; on a full stomach there can be no vision of the Divine mysteries.

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How a monk begins, lives and succeeds – photo journal from a tonsure at a cell

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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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How to preach to others

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Feb 21 2020
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You ask, will the others be saved… Why do you worry about them? They have a Savior Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such a concern. Study yourself and your own sins and not so much how to preach to others.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Reality is our game

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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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Avarice: A Lack of Faith

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Feb 08 2020
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Avarice (“the love of money”) is the worship of idols, the daughter of unbelief, a lying excuse for illness, a foreboder of old age, a harbinger of drought, and a herald of hunger. The lover of money sneers at the Gospel and is a willful transgressor. He who has attained love scatters his money. But he who says that he lives for love and for money has deceived himself.

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The Temptation of a Sinful Life

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Feb 06 2020
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As enticing as is the temptation of a sinful life, it ultimately leads to the disgust of sin, and then we seek the true path which we find in faith.

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How the many became sinners

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Jan 25 2020
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After Adam fell by sin and sank into corruption, at once impure pleasures rushed in, and the law of the jungle sprang up in our members. So nature became sick with sin through the disobedience of one, Adam. Then the many became sinners, not as fellow transgressors with Adam, for they did not even exist, but as being of that nature which had fallen under the law of sin. Human nature in Adam became sick through the corruption of disobedience, and thus the passions entered into it.

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The woodcutter – A photo journal from the woods

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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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast was anti-medicines then later opened up to them

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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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Saint Nicholas’ user guide on how to protect our houses – Photo Journal from his chapel

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Dec 04 2019
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Someone asked me if he could use a gun to protect his house. Well… I don’t know about guns. But I know about locks to protect the houses: A very old hermit monk here had a kelli dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Even though he was alone in the wilderness, he not only didn’t have a lock at his cell, but he left the door largely open even if he went some distance away (Karyes, a monastery etc.). In the many years he behaved like this, no unfortunate accident occurred. This went on for years till once a group of pilgrims […]

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Saint Porphyrios: he just needed a taxi

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Dec 03 2019
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The delicacy and the knowledge of the saints is above anything we can concieve. In fact, without God’s grace, we are just barbarians—without God’s grace, we humans are wolves among other humans.

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Saint Arsenios Boca, Paisios, Porphyrios: Who is saint? – Photo Journal from the feast of Saint John Chrysostom

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Nov 26 2019
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Many say Father Arsenios Boca is holy, while others say that man was not normal. The same thing happened with Saint Porphyrios, Saint Paisios, and other saints in the past – for example Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Symeon the Stylite or Saint Symeon the New Theologian. In fact, both opinions are true, but an explanation is needed to understand.

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