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Which is the Beginning of the Gospel?

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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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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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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • 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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The types of prayer

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  • Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra
  • 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 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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How to start the spiritual life

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • 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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Saint Gregory Palamas: how he started?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Informational
  • Miracles
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
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
  • 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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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
  • Victory over death
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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Sin and repentance

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Repentance
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 07 2020
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Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said? Satan upsets the order; he gives the courage to sin and the shame to repentance.

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What is true fasting

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  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
Mar 05 2020
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True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows.

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Great Lent: Why Does It Hold Forty Days?

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  • Informational
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Repentance
Mar 01 2020
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Many wonder why Great Lent holds forty days. To be very accurate, Great Lent does not last forty days but thirty-six days. However, people generally think it holds forty days.

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We forget that the Last Judgement is based on mercy

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

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  • Obedience
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  • 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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Operation mindcrime

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  • Dispassion
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
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  • 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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How to preach to others

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  • Elder Thaddeos of Vitovnica
  • Love
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Ignatios of Antioch
  • Saint Porphyrios the Athonite
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Tradition, learning and education
Feb 21 2020
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You ask, will the others be saved… Why do you worry about them? They have a Savior Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such a concern. Study yourself and your own sins and not so much how to preach to others.

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The bodily prayer

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  • Saint John of the Ladder
Feb 14 2020
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Those who have not yet obtained true prayer of the heart, can find help in violence in bodily prayer—I mean stretching out the hands, beating the breast, sincere raising of the eyes to heaven, deep sighing, and frequent prostrations. But often they cannot do this owing to the presence of other people, and so the demons especially choose to attack them just at this very time.

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The Temptation of a Sinful Life

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  • 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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The mind naturally clings to its own thoughts

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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Feb 03 2020
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Just as parents have a special affection for the children who are the fruit of their own bodies, so the mind naturally clings to its own thoughts.

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Self love is the cause of all impassioned thoughts

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  • Dispassion
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  • Repentance
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
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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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Accept your falls

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

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  • Dispassion
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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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The multiple meanings of the baptism of Saint John – Photo journal from Theophany

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  • Saint Theophylactos of Ochrid
Jan 19 2020
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The baptism of Saint John had not remission of sins, but only brought men to penitence. He preached therefore the baptism of repentance, that is, he preached that to which the baptism of penitence led, namely, remission of sins, that they who in penitence received Christ, might receive Him to the remission of their sins.

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The kondakion of Nativity is of divine inspiration – photo report from Nativity

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  • Informational
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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 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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Why we say “Mother of God, save us”?

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Dec 24 2019
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Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary in order to save our souls. He came as our life giver but we embraced Him as His death givers.

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A prayer to Holy Spirit for our unity

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  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
Dec 19 2019
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O, Holy Spirit that made all races, look kindly at the whole human family and take away the arrogance and hatred which separates us from our brothers.

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Elder Ephraim of Arizona: We must be always careful

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  • Dispassion
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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
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  • Tradition, learning and education
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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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Saint Mark the Ascetic: The greatest passions

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Repentance
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 10 2019
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All vice is caused by self-esteem and sensual pleasure; you cannot overcome passion without hating them.

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

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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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The Push-Button civilization

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  • Repentance
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 07 2019
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We learnt enough in order to have confidence in what we think we know but we did not learnt enough in order to accept something else which might contradict our narrow views.

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