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The mystery of the Holy Unction: Miracles

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
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Apr 08 2020
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Holy Unction during pandemic is one of the most necessary services, however it seems that it is performed much less than it should. Below you will read some miracles tied to the mystery of Holy Unction.

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When will the trial we go through be over?

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • New Testament
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint Dorotheos of Gaza
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Apr 07 2020
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When will the trial we go through be over? When will the good news come? The answer is in us.

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What Does the Bible Say About Doctors?

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  • Love
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  • 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 types of sadness – photo journal from the Akathist Hymn

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  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Apr 04 2020
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The Akathist Hymn is the most widely used hymn to honor the Virgin Mary. The word “Rejoice” is the most widely used word in the akathist hymn and this, according to the spiritual law, is due to the fact that sadness was the most present in the life of the Virgin.

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Who are the patron saints? (St. Charalampos, St. Corona, St. Nikephoros)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Prayer
Apr 03 2020
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First of all, we must understand that the idea of patron saints or protectors is not fixed or predetermined. Over time, people have seen that certain saints have helped, either during their life or after death, in a certain area of interest and, therefore, based on this experience, people again seek the help of that saint.

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The Akathist Hymn: ode to the Invincible General

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  • 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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Which is the Beginning of the Gospel?

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  • New Testament
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
Apr 01 2020
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Do not think that knowing the beginning of the gospel is a minor thing. God is perfect and does not leave to chance a thing like the beginning of the gospel.

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Prophecies about the pandemic – Photo journal with a great schema service

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Elder Ilarion Argatu
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina
Mar 31 2020
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In times of trial, people draw closer to God, which is why God also has to allow such trials, in times when mankind settles onto the wrong path.

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Fear: how to deal with it

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  • 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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Saint Nikephoros the Leper appears in Bulgaria and gives the cure for Coronavirus

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  • Saint Nikephoros the Leper
  • Sleep and vigil
Mar 29 2020
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“…… I learned from the internet that the journalist Angel Bonchev was preparing a book about the unknown for us Saint Nikephoros the Leper, at a critical moment when the world was covered by the coronavirus pandemic and thousands died, killed by this new plague.

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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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  • 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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What is normal? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Ken Kesey
  • Tradition, learning and education
Mar 27 2020
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In fact, what is normal in a world in which one flies East, another flies West and another flies over the cuckoo’s nest?

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The types of prayer

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Mar 26 2020
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There are many ways in which we can categorize the types of prayer. A simple one is the following:

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The Silence of the Children – Photo journal from Annunciation (Great Saturday) – Part 2: The Liturgy (Audio)

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 25 2020
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The Archangel Gabriel said to the Virgin Mary, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you amongst women.” Hidden meanings in the words of the Mother of God

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

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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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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 Causes of the Pandemic – photo journal from the Sunday of the Cross (Audio)

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
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  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 22 2020
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Many ask us what the causes of the pandemic COVID-19 are, if it is a natural phenomenon, or if there are state-level actors who generated this epidemic.

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How to start the spiritual life

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  • 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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Christians during pandemic

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  • Love
Mar 20 2020
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In the 3rd Century, a pandemic swept across Italy, Africa, and the Western Roman Empire. In retrospective examination, some scholars believe it was the Ebola virus. At its height, this pandemic killed more than 5,000 people every day in Rome. Some cities had their population wiped out by more than 60 percent.

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Embrace the change

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  • Saint Anthony the Great
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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 19 2020
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We must embrace the change. It is pointless to continuously resist. We must cut off our will in front of others.

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The services are not held for the saints – photo journal from the Chapel of Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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Mar 18 2020
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The services are not held for the saints and the churches are not raised for them.

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The stages of our eternal life

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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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Enjoy the Silence

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  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Soren Kierkegaard
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Mar 16 2020
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Many times I regretted that I spoke; I have never regretted keeping silent. Enjoy the Silence!

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Saint Gregory Palamas: how he started?

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Mar 15 2020
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There was a child who was somewhat illiterate and could not learn his lessons and keep up with his classmates.

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The carnal thought: how to fight it

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  • Dispassion
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  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
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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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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
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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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  • Obedience
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  • 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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  • Renunciation of the world
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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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Amphilochios of Montenegro: We forgot the God-Man

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
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  • Metropolitan Amphilochios of Montenegro
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Mar 10 2020
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The essence of the church is synodicity (synergy). The biggest problem of mankind today is that they have forgotten the Jesus which is God-Man, and therefore our heavenly purpose.

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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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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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