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What Does the Bible Say About Doctors?

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Victory over death
Apr 06 2020
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Give doctors the honor they deserve, for the Lord gave them their work to do. Their skill came from the Most High, and kings reward them for it. Their knowledge gives them a position of importance, and powerful people hold them in high regard.

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The Akathist Hymn: ode to the Invincible General

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory the Theologian
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Victory over death
Apr 02 2020
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Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom to celebrate Kontakia (a type of hymn) during the Pannychis (festive night vigil celebrated at the Blachernae chapel), the Akathist had also the function to celebrate military victories or to ask, during wars, for divine protection intermediated by prayers of the Mother of God, the Invincible General.

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Fear: how to deal with it

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  • Abba Isaiah
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Saint Makarios
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
  • Saint Symeon the New Theologian
  • Victory over death
Mar 30 2020
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The demon of fear that tempts you, saying „Where can you flee? You have no repentance; you have no escape”, belongs to the enemy who is trying to make you lose self-control, whereas godly sadness does not attack you, but says, „Do not be afraid; try again”, for it knows that humanity is weak, and strengthens us.

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Why do we need to pray to God when He says He knows more about what we need? – photo journal from the vigil against the pandemic

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Victory over death
Mar 28 2020
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Why do we need to pray? For this, we need to understand that the first thing we need is the healing of the distortion of our will and, connected to this, the healing of our loneliness.

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The Gift of Shyness – photo journal from Annunciation (Good Friday) – part 1: Vigil (Audio)

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Mar 24 2020
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The Mother of God was the purest being created as all the holy fathers confess together. Her basic virtue was and is virginity, the gift of shyness – the full purity of her entire existence, not only from the bodily but also from spiritual (mental) point of view.

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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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The stages of our eternal life

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  • Dispassion
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Victory over death
Mar 17 2020
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We must consciously realize that we are eternal. Here you have all the stages of eternal life with a short description of each one.

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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
  • Victory over death
Mar 13 2020
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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil. A sensible man knows that suffering is not evil but only the manifestation of evil and healing from evil. Only sin in a man is a real evil, and there is no evil outside sin.

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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • 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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Serious Illness: A Revelation from God?

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Victory over death
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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Elder Joseph Hesycast, Elders Daniil and Ephraim of Katounakia officially entered today in the Church’s Calendar

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  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • 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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Koliva: Definition and the Miracle of Saint Theodor Tyron – Photo Journal with Koliva

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Miracles
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Mar 06 2020
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Koliva: Definition Koliva is a dish, consisting of boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead.

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Jesus does not want the sinner’s death but to return and be alive. – Photo journal from the Chapel of the Holy Unmercenary Healers

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Victory over death
Mar 04 2020
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In any society there are richer people and poorer people. People who find a job, people who can’t find a job for a variety of reasons. All of this God has left on earth in order to need each other and to learn to love one another and not to judge too much why. In any case, Jesus does not want the sinner’s death but to return and be alive.

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The ones who learn to die will be free

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patra
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  • 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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We forget that the Last Judgement is based on mercy

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Victory over death
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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  • Obedience
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  • Renunciation of the world
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
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  • 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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The distinction between the essence of God and His energies

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  • Dispassion
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Feb 20 2020
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One of the most delicate—yet important—issues in the Church is the distinction between the essence of God and His energies.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Reality is our game

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • 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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Saint Paisios the Athonite: How Jesus Christ looked like?

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  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Victory over death
Feb 04 2020
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While praying to Christ, I felt a certain difficulty. The Mother of God – She was just like my own Mother to me. The same was with St. Euphemia. “My dear Saint Euphemia”, I addressed to her… But it was difficult to pray to Christ. I venerated His icons with fear. When during the Jesus Prayer my mind began to distract from prayer, I did not upset me at all. “Who am I to constantly keep Christ in my poor mind?” – I said to myself. And then something happened what I want to tell you about.

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The last words of Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo on Mount Athos – photo journal from his last Divine Liturgy

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  • Victory over death
Jan 29 2020
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From the last words of Metropolitan Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo on the Holy Mountain: Love is not measured among virtues. Love does not count together with fasting, prayer, etc. Love is the purpose and the driving force of all virtues. The virtues build a new person, radiating love to the world. So, as Saint John Chrysostom says, you do not have to be among people to be the true friend of people. True friendship is love—not spatial or temporal closeness. Look at the monks: everybody looks for them, and the pilgrims come from far away to see them, because they […]

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How the many became sinners

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Cyril of Alexandria
  • Victory over death
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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Cremation: Why not?

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Remembrance of death
  • Victory over death
Jan 23 2020
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Many people think that cremation is an easy solution and wonder, ‘Why not?’

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How should a husband speak to his wife

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Victory over death
Jan 11 2020
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A husband full of grace should speak to his wife like this:

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What is death in the Bible

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  • Obedience
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
  • Victory over death
Jan 10 2020
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Many ask what is death in the Bible. According with the Bible, as the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.

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

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Victory over death
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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About Irrational Anger and Lust

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of death
  • Saint Gregory the Sinaite
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 04 2020
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The soul, being created rational and understandable by the life-giving breath of God, was not created at once with irrational anger and lust, but with the power of desire and, along with that, with the force of love.

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Why God gave us spacetime continuum

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  • Love
  • Victory over death
Jan 03 2020
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Our good God gave us Time to draw us closer to Him, and space to draw us closer to each other. However, we can’t approach God without approaching ourselves, and vice versa, because of this, we have the notion of a spacetime continuum.

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I don’t enjoy church, does that mean I’m going to Hell?

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 02 2020
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Many put this question: If I don’t enjoy church, does that mean that I’m going to Hell?

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The meaning of time – a photo journal with an old clock

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  • father Dumitru Staniloae
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Victory over death
Jan 01 2020
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Eternity cannot simply be an unchangeable substance, it cannot be like eternal self-sustaining law. Such eternity cannot be inexhaustible and creative.

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Why is necessary to say “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”?

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Dec 30 2019
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“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” I stop, struck with admiration at this thought. What shall I say first? Shall I demonstrate the vanity of the Gentiles? Shall I praise the truth of our faith?

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