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Not even the devil can make you sin

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Sep 16 2019
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Let us now carefully consider whether God ever allows evil to be forced on his saints, either by himself or by someone else.

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God transcends everything. How can we approach Him?

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  • Dispassion
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  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
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  • Victory over death
Sep 10 2019
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Every created nature is far removed from and completely foreign to the divine nature.

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Someone who wanted to do evil, prayed

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Sep 07 2019
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Someone who wanted to do evil, prayed Someone wanted to do evil, but first prayed as usual; and finding himself prevented by God, he was then extremely thankful.

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There are two basic ways to cure our soul

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  • Dispassion
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  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Sep 03 2019
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There are two basic ways of a cure. The first is for a person to abandon “wealth” of the mind. In speaking of poverty, Saint Niketas Stethatos maintains that poverty is not only the renunciation of material goods, but is also the denial of the “wealth” of the mind.

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How Mother of God looked like? – Photo Journal from Her Tomb (Jerusalem)

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  • Dispassion
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  • Miracles
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  • Victory over death
Aug 14 2019
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Even if the rules of iconography insist that the holy image depicted (the saints) should be with black hair and black eyes, however, from tradition and from visions, we are informed from the saints which saw the Mother of God that her hair texture resembles that of ripe wheat with blue eyes.

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We know how Satan works because he works like we do

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
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  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
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Aug 09 2019
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The devil uses a similar technique with us when we want to attack something. So, we must know how to defend. It depends on us to do it.

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Christ suffered to keep you from anger

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
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  • Victory over death
Aug 08 2019
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You have a spiritual nature. The soul is the image of the Creator. Honor the image of God by being in agreement with all humanity.

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Transfiguration of Jesus: The feast of real knowledge

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  • 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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The Eve of the Nativity: The eve of purity – Photo Report from Eve of the Nativity (2015) (Audio)

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
Dec 20 2016
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It was fitting that the Giver of all holiness should enter this world by a pure and holy birth. For He it is that of old formed Adam from the virgin earth,

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About Marriage: One of the most important blessings in one’s life

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
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  • Saint John Chrysostom
Dec 11 2016
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A certain wise man, when enumerating which blessings are the most important included a wife and husband who live in harmony (Sir. 25:1). In another place he emphasized this:

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Why God allows children to stay on the Archbishop’s throne

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Dec 09 2016
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Many times, God allows children to stay on the archibishop’s throne because the grace of theosis is not made known by lessons but through innocence and purity as that of a child. Brothers and sisters, stop thinking

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What is an unforeseen affliction?

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Nov 12 2016
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If Peter had not failed to catch anything during the night’s fishing (cf. Lk 5:5), he would not have caught anything during the day. And if Paul had not suffered physical blindness (cf. Ac 9:8), he would not have been given spiritual sight. And if Stephen had not been slandered as a blasphemer, he would not have seen the heavens opened and have looked on God (cf. Ac 6:15; 7:56). As work according to God is called virtue, so unexpected affliction is called a

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How to recognize the stages of spiritual life

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Sep 15 2016
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress, freedom from

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Suffering cleanses

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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Sep 12 2016
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Suffering cleanses the soul infected with the filth of sensual pleasure and detaches it completely from material things by showing it the

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The Dormition of Theotokos – Full Photo Report – Part 2: The Divine Liturgy

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  • Saint John of Damascus
Sep 07 2016
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It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she,…

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The Dormition of Theotokos – Full Photo Report – Part 1: The Vigil

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  • Saint John of Damascus
Sep 06 2016
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Thus as art can also be the fountain of true light, the inexhaustible treasury of life itself, the most fruitful source of blessing, who has won for us and brought us all good things…

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The Eye

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Jul 06 2016
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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if…

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Two things

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  • Saint Basil the Great
Jun 10 2016
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Get rid of two things about yourself: don’t think you’re somebody important and worthy; and don’t think that anybody else is of greater value than you. “Saint Basil the Great”

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We should practice

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  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Apr 29 2016
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People should train themselves to recognize immediately, through the feeling in their heart, whether good or evil is coming towards them, in the same way as we identify savory and unsalted things, or sweet and bitter with the tongue. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”

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Fight with determination

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Apr 27 2016
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Love of pleasure opens the door of our soul to the enemy. If you fight this with firm resolve, then it will be very difficult for any passion to overcome you. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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How you see

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Apr 15 2016

Just looking at something isn’t in itself a sin. What is a sin is looking at things with envy, pride and greed. “Saint Anthony the Great”

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The Aim

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Mar 19 2016
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If you don’t want to be enslaved to the passions and the devil on a daily basis, you have to set yourself an aim that you’ll always bear in mind and that you’ll try to achieve, overcoming all obstacles through the Lord’s assistance. “Saint John of Kronstadt”

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The ashes and the spark

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Feb 26 2016
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The passions cover Divine Grace, just as ash covers the spark. With asceticism and prayer, however, the heart is cleansed of the passions, the  spark of divine grace is rekindled and the faithful feel Christ in their heart, which is the centre of their existence. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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Deeply wounded

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Feb 18 2016
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How wounded our natural love is! How deep the wound of strong passion is that it bears. When the heart is engulfed with powerful passion, it’s capable of every kind of injustice, every kind of transgression, as long as it satisfies its sick love. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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Strike them all

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Feb 02 2016
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The passions are serpents. When one of them emanates from the heart, it’s like a snake sticking its head out of a hole. Strike it in the name of Christ. It’ll withdraw at once. As soon as another one manifests itself, hit that as well. Strike them all. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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Man is the image and likeness of God

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Jan 17 2016
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In order to have the desired relationship with God, to love Him with all our heart and to remain constantly in His presence, it is necessary to have a pure and free heart. The heart becomes free when repentance uproots from within it the law of sin and all the commandments of God become the unique law of our being. Then a divine state and love is imparted to man which is made manifest in unceasing prayer and through it, love for his fellow man. This prayer shows that man is the image and likeness of God and he loves […]

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Why do people divorce?

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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
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Jan 09 2016
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People divorce because of their sensuality and their egotism. Nothing else. All the other reasons are invented afterwards to justify what they’ve done. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Children and prayer

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  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 04 2016
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We should see God in the faces of children and we should give them His love. Children, too, should learn how to pray. If they are to pray, children need to have the blood of prayerful parents. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Immaterial vs nylon

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  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Dec 25 2015
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There’s more grace in one of God’s little flowers that in a whole bunch of artificial paper ones. In the same way, the immaterial [aïlon] differs greatly from the nylon. “Venerable Païsios the Athonite”

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The ‘likeness’

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  • Saint Diadochus of Photice
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Dec 12 2015
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Everybody is made in the image of God. But the ‘likeness’ belongs only to those who, with great love, have subjected their freedom to God. Because when we cease to belong to ourselves, then we’re like Him, Who reconciled us with Himself through love. Nobody can achieve this unless they convince their soul not to be lured by the easy glory of this world. “Saint Diadochus of Photice”

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