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My apocalypse

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Jan 16 2020
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Generally speaking, by “apocalypse” (ἀποκάλυψις) the people understand “revelation” or, more literally, “uncovering”. The term is tied, mainly, with Saint John Theologian’s work – Book of Revelation – from the New Testament which describes using pseudonymity and symbolic imagery for the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom.

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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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The kondakion of Nativity is of divine inspiration – photo report from Nativity

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Jan 07 2020
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During the reign of Emperor Anastasios I (491-518), a young deacon moved to Constantinople. He led an ascetic life of prayer and fasting, but in his humility he thought of himself as being rather worldly.

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How to approach the New Testament

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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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Saint John of the Ladder on sleep, prayer, and psalm-singing in church

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Nov 30 2019
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Sleep is a particular state of nature, an image of death, inactivity of the senses. Sleep is one, but, like desire, its sources and occasions are many: that is to say, it comes from nature, from food, from demons, or perhaps, sometimes, from extreme and prolonged fasting, through which the flesh is weakened and at last longs for the consolation of sleep.

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How to gain our true liberty

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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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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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The unknown saints are more in number than the known saints in Mount Athos – photo journal with such ones

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Oct 30 2019
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Skete of Saint Anne (Major) a monk wanted to extend a wall in the garden of his cell and for this purpose he started late in the evening to dig into the forest. Suddenly he found the holy relics of a big saint: they were incorrupt, with a marvelous yellow color and having a very intense fragrance.

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Someone dies when everyone is ready – a Photoshop lesson

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Oct 29 2019
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Because death is such an important moment in our life, our perfect God doesn’t leave unused any possibility of improvement for the one who is about to die and for anyone else who could be affected by that person’s death. However, here intervines our human freedom which can spoil things badly. But, if we do what we can – which is almost nothing – God will do what He can, which is everything. Don’t you believe?

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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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What is the “Jesus Prayer”, the “Prayer of the mind” and the “Prayer of the heart”?

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Oct 08 2019
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The “Jesus Prayer” is the most powerful prayer, which contains the words “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy of me.” This core original, traditional formula varied and varies slightly, depending on the historical period and the teaching school which used it. The most common additions, but not the only ones, are “Lord Jesus Christ, [son of God], have mercy on me, [the sinner].” And there are other variations.

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Addiction treatment

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Oct 01 2019
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Any addiction is a bad habit, an illness of the soul, a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, in the causes of sin, despite the adverse consequences.

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Anxiety, fear and cowardice: causes and treatment

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Sep 27 2019
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If you pursue virtue in a monastery or community, you are not likely to be attacked much by fear. But the man who spends his time in more solitary places should make every effort to avoid being overcome by that offspring of vainglory, that daughter of unbelief: cowardice.

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How to keep a gift you have

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Sep 26 2019
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If a man has some spiritual gift and feels compassion for those who do not have it, he preserves the gift because of his compassion. But a boastful man will lose it through succumbing to temptations of boastfulness.

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How can we finally rest

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Sep 21 2019
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So he who desires to come to the rest of the Lord and not be defeated by the evil one, lovingly withdraws from people in all things, so as not to criticize them or praise or justify, or bless another or to upset someone else in any respect, or to observe his downfall, and to leave no needle of enmity in his heart against him, and to submit to those who are demented.

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The role of courage and of the conscience in the war against the passions

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Sep 06 2019
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There is among the passions an anger of the intellect (mind), and this anger is in accordance with nature – that is courage . Without this anger a person cannot attain purity: we have to feel angry with all that is sown in us by the enemy. When Job felt this anger he reviled his enemies, calling them ‘dishonorable men of no repute, lacking everything good, whom I would not consider fit to live with the dogs that guard my flocks’ (cf. Job 30:1, 4). If we wish to acquire the anger that is in accordance with nature we must […]

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There are two basic ways to cure our soul

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Sep 03 2019
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There are two basic ways of a cure. The first is for a person to abandon “wealth” of the mind. In speaking of poverty, Saint Niketas Stethatos maintains that poverty is not only the renunciation of material goods, but is also the denial of the “wealth” of the mind.

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Convertitis according to Father Seraphim Rose (about the beginners’ problems)

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Aug 24 2019
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Father Seraphim Rose of Platina, himself a convert to Orthodoxy, was once asked to compose a “Manual for Orthodox Converts”. In his notes for such a manual, he jotted down the following “convert pitfalls”, or what he called “obstacles in the Orthodox mission today” – or, shortly, “convertitis”. Based on these notes we have:

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666: What the Holy Fathers say about it?

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Aug 20 2019
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There is a lot of anxiety and distress about the famous 666 in some circles, which most of the time (if not always) distracts us from our main aim in life – the salvation of our eternal soul.

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The real victory comes through pain

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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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Do not envy if the wicked are joyful

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Aug 06 2019
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Perhaps you are saying, “Why are the wicked joyful? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me?”

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Transfiguration of Jesus: The feast of real knowledge

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Aug 05 2019
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We struggle to learn various things and slowly try to understand their meanings in order to gain knowledge.

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