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The Temptation of a Sinful Life

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  • Alexandru Mironescu
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Ioan Ianolide
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Anthony the Great
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Saint John Jacob of Hozeva
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 06 2020
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As enticing as is the temptation of a sinful life, it ultimately leads to the disgust of sin, and then we seek the true path which we find in faith.

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Paramythia – Photo journal with the miracle-working icon

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  • Informational
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  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
Feb 05 2020
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The tradition tells us that on the icon of Paramythia, the original expression on the faces of the figures and the position of the bodies of Christ and the Blessed Virgin changed when the following strange miracle occurred, January 21, 1321 in front of the Abbot – Saint Ghennadios of Vatopedi – which went there to take the keys of the Monastery’s main gate which were at the icon in order to give them to the monk which was responsible in opening the gates:

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Accept your falls

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Makarios
  • Saint Nektarios of Aegina
Jan 30 2020
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Patiently accept your falls and, having stood up, immediately run to God, not remaining in that place where you have fallen.

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The path of God

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  • Elder Ephraim of Arizona
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Jan 27 2020
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Grief will succeed joy, and joy, grief, just as night follows day. This is how the Father of lights has established the path of God for those who are being saved. Just have patience and hope: engrave these in the depths of your heart and all adversities will be faced.

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What you want to know about despondency

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jan 17 2020
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As we have already frequently said, this—we mean despondency—is very often one of the branches of talkativeness, and its first child.

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The woodcutter – A photo journal from the woods

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 15 2020
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In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain.

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Defeat is a state of mind

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint Ambrose of Optina
Jan 09 2020
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Boredom is the grandson of depression, and laziness is the daughter. To send her away, labor actively – do not be lazy in prayer, then boredom will pass and zeal will come. And if you add to this zeal day by day with patience and humility, then you will escape much evil.

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

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  • Dispassion
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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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Why the baptism of Jesus is so important?

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
Jan 06 2020
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The Baptism of the Jesus is a very important feast because, in fact, the Holy Trinity presented themselves to humanity at the baptism of the Lord.

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

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  • 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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Strategy and Geopolitics

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Victory over death
Dec 17 2019
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The only strategy that succeeds today is prayer, counsel and attention. Through these three we come into full harmony with the universe.

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How to balance providing for one’s family and charity?

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
Dec 16 2019
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Like most things, it’s not the outward actions and situation that matter most, it’s our inner state.

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

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  • 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 Nicholas’ user guide on how to protect our houses – Photo Journal from his chapel

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
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  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Victory over death
Dec 04 2019
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Someone asked me if he could use a gun to protect his house. Well… I don’t know about guns. But I know about locks to protect the houses: A very old hermit monk here had a kelli dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Even though he was alone in the wilderness, he not only didn’t have a lock at his cell, but he left the door largely open even if he went some distance away (Karyes, a monastery etc.). In the many years he behaved like this, no unfortunate accident occurred. This went on for years till once a group of pilgrims […]

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What is unity? Our resurrection

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Victory over death
Nov 29 2019
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And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female, he created them. (Genesis 1: 26-27)

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Every vice leads in the end to forbidden pleasure and every virtue to blessing

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
Nov 28 2019
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God is the source of every virtue, as the sun is of daylight. So, when you have done something good, remember the words ‘without Me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5).

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Why Saint Andrew is the First-Called – Photo journal from his chapel

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
Nov 27 2019
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We say that Saint Andrew together with Saint John the Theologian were the first apostles of Christ, as the Gospel according to John teaches us:

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Aggressive behavior management

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  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
Nov 22 2019
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Many today are wondering how to behave in the case of aggressive behavior, starting with those at school or playing between children ending with aggression at national level.

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How to gain our true liberty

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
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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About the abortions on TV

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  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
Nov 19 2019
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A few years ago, at an hour of maximum audience on the Greek national television station (ERT), a debate was held, at the highest level, on the topic of abortions.

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How we should approach the Holy Communion

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  • Vices and virtues
Nov 14 2019
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Him we must seek in every way in order that we may feed on Him and ward off hunger by constantly attending this banquet. Nor should we unnecessarily abstain from the holy table and thus greatly weaken our souls on the pretext that we are not really worthy of the Mysteries. Rather, we must resort to the priests for Confession on account of our sins so that we may drink of the cleansing Blood.

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How to use loneliness – a photo journal from a Divine Liturgy

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  • Dispassion
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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
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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Saint Mark the Ascetic: The Spiritual Law – Photo journal from the Skete of Saint Demetrios

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  • Prayer
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Nov 08 2019
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After fulfilling a commandment expect to be tempted: for love of Christ is tested by adversity. So, never belittle the significance of your thoughts, for not one escapes God’s notice.

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We have always the leaders which we deserve

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
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  • Miracles
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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Nov 07 2019
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Saint Paul says that „Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” because our first aim is to perfection ourselves and not to fight with others, so for this we need to have a stable and peaceful environment.

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Saint Nektarios giving birth to a baby

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  • Victory over death
Nov 06 2019
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We shouldn’t think, judge, and act, having faith in our way of seeing things—but on God.

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God: The physician is not to be praised only when he leads the patient into gardens and meadows

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Nov 01 2019
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The physician is not to be praised only when he leads the patient into gardens and meadows, or baths and pools of water, or when he sets a well-furnished table before him.

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It is necessary for us to forget our good actions

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Renunciation of the world
Oct 25 2019
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Why do you constantly recall what you’ve done, and bring it up to us? Don’t you know that if you praise yourself, God won’t praise you anymore? And in the same way, if you deplore yourself, he will never stop proclaiming you in front of everyone.

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The warrior is not someone who fights

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Remembrance of death
  • Tradition, learning and education
Oct 19 2019
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The warrior is not someone who fights, For no one has the right to take another life.

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Hi, Jesus! I am Yannis!

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
Oct 17 2019
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There was once a simple man named Yannis who loved Jesus greatly. Because of his medical condition, however, he couldn’t do anything in order to find a job. Finally, an Elder took pity on him and brought him to his monastery.

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