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Prophecies about the pandemic – Photo journal with a great schema service

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
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  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Elder Ilarion Argatu
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  • Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina
Mar 31 2020
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In times of trial, people draw closer to God, which is why God also has to allow such trials, in times when mankind settles onto the wrong path.

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What is normal? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Ken Kesey
  • Tradition, learning and education
Mar 27 2020
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In fact, what is normal in a world in which one flies East, another flies West and another flies over the cuckoo’s nest?

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Enjoy the Silence

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Mar 16 2020
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Many times I regretted that I spoke; I have never regretted keeping silent. Enjoy the Silence!

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Serious Illness: A Revelation from God?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
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  • 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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Amphilochios of Montenegro: We forgot the God-Man

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Metropolitan Amphilochios of Montenegro
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Mar 10 2020
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The essence of the church is synodicity (synergy). The biggest problem of mankind today is that they have forgotten the Jesus which is God-Man, and therefore our heavenly purpose.

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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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Jesus does not want the sinner’s death but to return and be alive. – Photo journal from the Chapel of the Holy Unmercenary Healers

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Victory over death
Mar 04 2020
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In any society there are richer people and poorer people. People who find a job, people who can’t find a job for a variety of reasons. All of this God has left on earth in order to need each other and to learn to love one another and not to judge too much why. In any case, Jesus does not want the sinner’s death but to return and be alive.

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About mind – the noetic part (aspect) of the soul

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Informational
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 03 2020
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The mind (νους) is the finest attention, the human focus, the eye of the soul. If someone is focused on God and His rays – that is on God’s uncreated energy called grace, then the human mind has the property to receive light, to be enlightened like a pure parabolic mirror on which these rays fall.

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The Greatest Doctor in China – a photo journal from the Guest House

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  • Dispassion
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  • Love
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  • 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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Operation mindcrime

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
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  • Dispassion
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • 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 distinction between the essence of God and His energies

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  • Dispassion
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Feb 20 2020
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One of the most delicate—yet important—issues in the Church is the distinction between the essence of God and His energies.

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Resist the devil – a photo journal from a Holy Water service

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  • Despair and Discouragement
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  • Dispassion
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  • Informational
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  • Prayer
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  • Vices and virtues
Feb 19 2020
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A complete guide on how to resist the devil, especially if you are under demonic attacks and there is a danger of demonization is outlined below. We must be always aware of this danger and must take the precautionary measures, especially if we have grave sins or we are targets of concentrated demonic attacks because of Spells or curses cast against us.

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Saint Mark the Ascetic: Reality is our game

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
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  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • Victory over death
Feb 13 2020
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We must never forget that reality is our game. Do not say: ‘I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.’ For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you, as if you were passing through a house from one room to another. It is not helpful to know what comes later before you have done what comes first. For knowledge without action ‘puffs up’, but ‘love edifies’, because it ‘patiently accepts all things’ (1 Cor. […]

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What is asceticism – photo journal from a blood donation

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  • Dispassion
  • father Dumitru Staniloae
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  • Saint Apostle Paul
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Feb 12 2020
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Asceticism is the branch of medicine that aims at healing the human soul which is eternal and reaching eternal personal perfection.

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The dignified behavior – it is worth it?

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  • Dispassion
  • Elder Arsenie Papacioc
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  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
Feb 07 2020
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An ordinary Christian who has a morally dignified behavior becomes a symbol of the Truth manifested on earth and is a censor for the consciences of others. Honest souls will seek him to share his wisdom. The dishonest soul will bypass him and mock him or slander him. Through this treatment, he resembles the Crucified One.

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The mind naturally clings to its own thoughts

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  • Obedience
  • Repentance
  • 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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He who busies himself with the sins of others

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  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Feb 01 2020
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins, which are truly heavier than a great lump of lead; nor does he know why a man becomes heavy-hearted when he loves vanity and chases after falsehood

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Self love is the cause of all impassioned thoughts

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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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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Philokalia: Definition, History, and Source

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Informational
Jan 28 2020
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Many believe that the Philokalia is a book written by Saint Nicodemus the Athonite. In fact, this book—as that understand of the book—does not actually exist.

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Children’s rights – photo journal from library

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  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 22 2020
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In the last 3 decades, the concept of ‘Children’s Rights’ has emerged to define their interests in international law. Although the intention is, theoretically, to be praised, ‘Children’s Rights’ is an abstract, meaningless notion, in a world separate from God.

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How to find a good spouse?

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Jan 21 2020
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Note: „How to find a good spouse?” is a question which is often asked by women. That’s why this text was written for women, but can equally be applied by men. First of all, pray to find a good spouse. Our Lord and His holy Mother are the primary source of aid for such matters. It is best to…

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

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  • Dispassion
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  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
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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How to become a monk on Mount Athos

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Jan 18 2020
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First of all, if you want to come to Mount Athos and become a monk, you must be sure that you are free of legal bindings. One of the most common bindings, is of one’s debts in this world, which you must to pay yourself. Another binding is that of marriage.

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Distinguishing the work of grace and the work of deception – photo journal from the New Year

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  • Diadochos of Photiki
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  • Saint Gregory the Sinaite
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  • Saint Thalassios the Libyan
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Jan 14 2020
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In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work is of grace and the other work is of the deception of demons. Yet still, we can divide the twofold work into three, if we also consider the body—thus, there is a triple warmth of this energy which burns in people: one of grace, a second of deception or sin, and a third of a surplus of blood, from natural causes—of which, this latter can be quenched and brought to order through measured restraint and abstinence. Work of grace First, […]

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I don’t enjoy church, does that mean I’m going to Hell?

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
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  • 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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Concerning the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus – How to Give Names to Infants

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  • Informational
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 31 2019
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On the eighth day after His Nativity, our Lord Jesus Christ was circumcised, in accordance with Old Testament Law. All male infants underwent circumcision as a sign of God’s Covenant with the holy Forefather Abraham and his descendants.

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Strategy and Geopolitics

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • 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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Byzantine Chant recognized by UNESCO as part of Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Audio)

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Informational
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 14 2019
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Byzantine Chant is not just another form of music. It is a tool on which we can pray better. It is, in fact, a form of melodic prayer. If the music in general is composed to be listened to, the psaltic music is made to pray to the fullest and therefore it sounds best in the Church and not so much in the concerts.

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How to approach the New Testament

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  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 13 2019
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If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge, then every good thing will be yours. You will fill your mind with the divine light. Then, when you apply that light to the doctrines of the Church, you will very easily recognize everything that is true and unadulterated, and lay it up in the hidden treasures of your soul.

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