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

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

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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 the Skull of Saint John Chrysostom has one ear incorrupt after more than 1600 years? – A Photo Journal

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Nov 12 2019
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Saint John Chrysostom was renowned for his explanations of the Holy Scriptures. He also interpreted the Epistles of Saint Paul, whom he admired greatly. In order to assure himself that the interpretation of the Epistles were correct, he asked God to offer him a sign.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: The Spiritual Law – Photo journal from the Skete of Saint Demetrios

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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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A person cannot choose the time and the nation in which he is born – but what really matters is something else

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Oct 31 2019
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A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman, no matter his nationality nor parents.

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Someone dies when everyone is ready – a Photoshop lesson

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Oct 29 2019
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Because death is such an important moment in our life, our perfect God doesn’t leave unused any possibility of improvement for the one who is about to die and for anyone else who could be affected by that person’s death. However, here intervines our human freedom which can spoil things badly. But, if we do what we can – which is almost nothing – God will do what He can, which is everything. Don’t you believe?

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How the saints heal their brothers – Photo journal from fishing

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Oct 24 2019
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How can we put up with these things unless it is because we have no true love? If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor’s shortcomings.

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How to overcome sin

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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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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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How can we distinguish between a medical illness and a demonic activity? – photo journal from the Exaltation of the Holy True Cross

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Oct 02 2019
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First of all we should mention that our illnesses are a result of Adam’s fall. In paradise there were no illnesses. So, demonic energy is more or less involved in various degrees and because of various causes and for various purposes: to pay off for a particular sin, to stop someone from a wrong path or for one to receive a higher degree of spiritual knowledge etc.

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Addiction treatment

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Oct 01 2019
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Any addiction is a bad habit, an illness of the soul, a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, in the causes of sin, despite the adverse consequences.

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Death: Lack of comprehension

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Sep 24 2019
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God made us in His image and likeness—that is, just a single created god—a single Human in many persons of two kinds (man and woman), as He is a single God in three persons. God created a giant mind, a created god, in which all persons would cooperate flawlessly through their minds in real time to accomplish the same goal, even if each person would keep his specificity.

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We see ourselves only in the eyes of the Other – Photo journal from grapes gathering

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Sep 19 2019
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Few words, much love. To all. No matter who they are because every one of us is ‘sent’, every one of us is created with a purpose, every one of us is unique in his own way.

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The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart and our free will

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Sep 18 2019
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It’s not that God overrode Pharaoh’s free will; that is, it isn’t that Pharaoh was inclined to let the Israelites go but then God stopped him from doing so. It’s that Pharaoh was not inclined to let the Israelites go, but the miracles worked by God through Moses made him timid; God gave Pharaoh the strength of will to follow through on what he really wanted to do: keep the Israelites enslaved in Egypt. In that sense, God didn’t suspend or override Pharaoh’s free will; actually, God enhanced it, so Pharaoh could make the choice that was in his heart.

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Why we do not kill ourselves?

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Sep 14 2019
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But someone might say, “Then, if heaven is so great, why don’t you all just go and kill yourselves, and pass over to your God right away, and not bother us anymore?”

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How to speak as a true leader

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Sep 09 2019
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If someone is not under obedience to you, do not rebuke him to his face for his faults. For that would imply you have authority over him, and are not just giving advice.

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There are two basic ways to cure our soul

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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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