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The mystery of the Holy Unction: Miracles

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • New Testament
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
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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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 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 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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Serious Illness: A Revelation from God?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • 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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We forget that the Last Judgement is based on mercy

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • 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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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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Avarice: A Lack of Faith

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • father Dumitru Staniloae
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Feb 08 2020
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Avarice (“the love of money”) is the worship of idols, the daughter of unbelief, a lying excuse for illness, a foreboder of old age, a harbinger of drought, and a herald of hunger. The lover of money sneers at the Gospel and is a willful transgressor. He who has attained love scatters his money. But he who says that he lives for love and for money has deceived himself.

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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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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Love
  • 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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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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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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The irrationality of war

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 13 2020
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Someone which isn’t warmed by the love of others, will start a fire around him in order to warm himself. This is the irrationality of war in a society without God.

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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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About Irrational Anger and Lust

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Love
  • 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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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 God became man? – Photo journal with the restoration of an icon

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  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Victory over death
Dec 25 2019
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The law of death, which followed from the Transgression, prevailed upon us, and from it there was no escape.

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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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What is unity? Our resurrection

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • 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 Paisios of Mount Athos: Not everyone will be saved

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Sleep and vigil
Nov 25 2019
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Struggle with all your power to gain Paradise. And do not listen to those who say that everyone will be saved. This is trap of Satan so that we would not struggle.

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The unknown saints are more in number than the known saints in Mount Athos – photo journal with such ones

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Miracles
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Victory over death
Oct 30 2019
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Skete of Saint Anne (Major) a monk wanted to extend a wall in the garden of his cell and for this purpose he started late in the evening to dig into the forest. Suddenly he found the holy relics of a big saint: they were incorrupt, with a marvelous yellow color and having a very intense fragrance.

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How can God exist when the universe seem so cruel and unjust?

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Victory over death
Oct 26 2019
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My argument against the existence of God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?

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Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew II: Elder Sophronios of Essex will enter into the Official Calendar of the Church, and other gifts

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  • Informational
  • Love
  • Remembrance of death
  • Victory over death
Oct 23 2019
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on the 23rd of October, 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew II, proclaimed the entry into the Official Calendar of the Church of yet another Athonite saint: Elder Sophronios (Sacharov) from Essex. The announcement was made in the conference of the Holy Council of Mount Athos by His All-Holiness with a lot of emotion.

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The warrior is not someone who fights

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • 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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The vanity and vainglory – our restless enemies

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Vices and virtues
Oct 14 2019
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All vices grow feeble when conquered, and when beaten are day by day made weaker, and lessen and subside both in place and time—or at any rate, as they are unlike the opposite virtues, are more easily shunned and avoided.

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Forgetfulness: the spiritual immunodeficiency virus

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Slander
Oct 10 2019
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Forgetfulness in and of itself has no power, but acquires embodiment in proportion to our negligence.

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How to overcome sin

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Oct 04 2019
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If God sees that the intellect has entirely submitted to Him and puts its hope in Him alone, He strengthens it, saying: ‘Have no fear Jacob my son, my little Israel’ (Isa. 41:14), and: ‘Have no fear: for I have delivered you, I have called you by My name; you are Mine. If you pass through water, I shall be with you, and the rivers will not drown you. If you go through fire, you will not be burnt, and the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who saves […]

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You seek liberty and happiness where they aren’t

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Oct 03 2019
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The whole planet wants the freedom of eternal happiness, but most people seek it where it is not and seek it in an inappropriate way.

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