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

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • 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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The stages of our eternal life

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • 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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The carnal thought: how to fight it

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  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Sleep and vigil
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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Saint Joseph the Hesychast – Photo Journal with his Life

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • 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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About mind – the noetic part (aspect) of the soul

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Informational
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 03 2020
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The mind (νους) is the finest attention, the human focus, the eye of the soul. If someone is focused on God and His rays – that is on God’s uncreated energy called grace, then the human mind has the property to receive light, to be enlightened like a pure parabolic mirror on which these rays fall.

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The Greatest Doctor in China – a photo journal from the Guest House

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
Feb 26 2020
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The state leadership called the greatest doctor in China and asked, “Are you the greatest doctor in China?“

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

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • 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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Why does our Lord separate the goats from the sheep at the Last Judgment?

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
Feb 24 2020
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The parable of the Last Judgment begins by saying that Jesus will separate us “as the shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.” Okay, but what is the connection between sheep and goats with the Fearful Judgment?

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Operation mindcrime

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Repentance
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 22 2020
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The nous (mind, intellect) which has rebelled against God becomes either bestial or demonic and, after having rebelled against the laws of nature, lusts after what belongs to others.

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The distinction between the essence of God and His energies

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • 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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Resist the devil – a photo journal from a Holy Water service

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Informational
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 19 2020
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A complete guide on how to resist the devil, especially if you are under demonic attacks and there is a danger of demonization is outlined below. We must be always aware of this danger and must take the precautionary measures, especially if we have grave sins or we are targets of concentrated demonic attacks because of Spells or curses cast against us.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Reality is our game

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • 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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What is asceticism – photo journal from a blood donation

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • father Dumitru Staniloae
  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Apostle Paul
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 12 2020
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Asceticism is the branch of medicine that aims at healing the human soul which is eternal and reaching eternal personal perfection.

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The dignified behavior – it is worth it?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Elder Arsenie Papacioc
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
Feb 07 2020
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An ordinary Christian who has a morally dignified behavior becomes a symbol of the Truth manifested on earth and is a censor for the consciences of others. Honest souls will seek him to share his wisdom. The dishonest soul will bypass him and mock him or slander him. Through this treatment, he resembles the Crucified One.

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He who busies himself with the sins of others

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Feb 01 2020
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins, which are truly heavier than a great lump of lead; nor does he know why a man becomes heavy-hearted when he loves vanity and chases after falsehood

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Self love is the cause of all impassioned thoughts

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Repentance
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 31 2020
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Self love, as has often been said, is the cause of all impassioned thoughts. For from it are produced the three principal thoughts of desire; those of gluttony, avarice and self-esteem. From gluttony is born the thought of unchastity; from avarice, the thought of greed; from self-esteem, the thought of pride.

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How the many became sinners

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  • Dispassion
  • 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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How to clean out our heart before praying

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  • Dispassion
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Prayer
  • Saint John Cassian
Jan 24 2020
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The science on how to clean out our heart before praying is very important because of the importance of prayer in our life.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: self-justification and humility exclude one another

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
Jan 20 2020
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He who secretly mingles his own wishes with obedience is an adulterer, as the Book of Proverbs indicates (cf. Prov. 6:32-33); and because of his stupidity he suffers pain and dishonor.

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

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • 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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The kondakion of Nativity is of divine inspiration – photo report from Nativity

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  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Informational
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
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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Why God gave us spacetime continuum

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

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  • Dispassion
  • 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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Fr. George Metallinos has reposed …in this world – small photo journal

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Love
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Dec 20 2019
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The Resurrection of Christ is the most significant event to take place in History. It is the event that differentiates Christianity from every other religion. Other religions have mortal leaders, whereas the Head of the Church is the Resurrected Christ. “Resurrection of Christ” implies the deification and the resurrection of human nature, and the hope for deification and resurrection of our own hypostasis. Since the medicine has been discovered, there is hope for life.

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A Christmas gift – Photo journal from Bethlehem

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Dec 18 2019
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The greatest gift God has made to people is the possibility of union with Him. This gift has become concrete through the incarnation of God, through the birth of Jesus Christ.

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Elder Ephraim of Arizona: We must be always careful

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 12 2019
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My child, always be careful, both when you are happy and when you are sad. When you are happy you should not lose control through vivacity and laughter, nor when you are sad should you be so gloomy that it shows.

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Elder Ephraim (Moraitis) of Philoteou, Arizona – Photo Journal with his life

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Repentance
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 08 2019
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Elder Archimandrite Ephraim (Ioannis Moraitis – June 24, 1927) was an archimandrite and former abbot of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos, spiritual guide of four monasteries on Mount Athos and of eight women’s convents in Greece, as well as the founder of 19 monasteries in the United States and Canada. He resided in Arizona at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery until his repose (December 7, 2019).

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Saint Porphyrios: he just needed a taxi

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Dispassion
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
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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  • Dispassion
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
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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Beware the life of ease

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Nov 23 2019
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Wait a minute! Is it not possible, they say, to enjoy ease both here and hereafter?

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