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The real victory comes through pain

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • 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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Do not envy if the wicked are joyful

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
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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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Victory over death
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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About using images during prayer

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
Jun 22 2019
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Some people, especially when they feel very down or hopeless, mentally look during prayer at an image of Our Lord on the cross or some other images.

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How to pray during services

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  • Sleep and vigil
Jun 11 2019
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We should unceasingly pray especially during the services, even if we do something concrete during them because the prayer should help us to be more aware, more attentive if we, also, want this.

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What means ‘He will reward every man according to his works’?

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
May 06 2019
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When Scripture says ‘He will reward every man according to his works’ (Mt 16:27), do not imagine that works in themselves merit either hell or the kingdom. On the contrary, Christ rewards each man according to whether his works are done with faith or without faith in Him; and He is not a dealer bound by contract, but God our Creator and Redeemer.

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The demons of vainglory prophesy in dreams

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Sleep and vigil
Nov 26 2016
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The demons of vainglory prophesy in dreams. Being unscrupulous, they guess the future and foretell it to us. When these visions come true, we are amazed; and we are indeed

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

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Sleep and vigil
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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The Church without Saints isn’t the Church

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  • Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis
  • Dispassion
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
Nov 27 2015
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The Church exists to save souls. To make saints. If you take saints out of its life, its theology and its worship, it ceases to be the Church. You could call it what you like, but it wouldn’t be the Church. And Christ Himself indicates that the Orthodox Church is His Church, the one of which He is the Head, and it holds the treasure of the Grace of the Holy Spirit, Who leads it to ‘all the truth’. He does so, in accordance with His incontrovertible promise, by granting Grace, by manifesting and glorifying His saints in this Church […]

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People as Liturgical Beings

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Sep 21 2015
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People who offer ‘your own from your own, in all things and for all things’ serve God truly and pleasingly. That is, people who recognize that whatever they have is a gift from God. They believe that they’ve got nothing of their own to offer. Everything’s from God and they take from that and offer it to God, together with themselves, their world and their relations with the world. They keep nothing selfishly for themselves. They offer themselves without reservation. They give everything in order to receive everything. They die in order to live. And they offer everything in Christ […]

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Restraint in all things

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Isidore of Pelusium
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
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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  • Repentance
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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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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
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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  • Prayer
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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
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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Elder, why are you happy all day long?

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  • Dispassion
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Feb 27 2015
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A disciple asked an elder, “Elder, why are you happy all day long?” The elder replied,…

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World War III: why and when?

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  • Victory over death
Feb 26 2015
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World War III: why and when? A pilgrim asked a monk, “When will the Third World War happen, and why?” The monk replied,…

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Learn to Know and Deal with Your Masters

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  • Prayer
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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Gregory of Nyssa
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
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 Seraphim and Angels

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  • Dispassion
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  • Obedience
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of Damascus
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  • Vices and virtues
Feb 07 2015
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The first group of angels consists of those who are in God’s presence and are said to be directly and immediately one with Him: the…

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Where Spiritual Progress is Found

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 20 2015
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A person who strives for a long time but doesn’t see spiritual progress has pride and egotism. Spiritual progress is found where there is…

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St Isaac: How to behave at Christmas

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  • Dispassion
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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 25 2014
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Please read on: This poem has more than 1300 years.   This Nativity night bestowed peace on the whole world; So let no one threaten; This is the night of the Most Gentle One – Let no one be cruel; This is the night of the Humble One – Let no one be proud. Now is the day of joy – Let us not revenge; Now is the day of Good Will – Let us not be mean. In this Day of Peace – Let us not be conquered by anger. Today the…

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How to avoid the wandering of the mind

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
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Dec 22 2014
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First of all you cannot stop the wandering of the mind. But you can fight to…

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