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Elder Ephraim of Arizona: We must be always careful

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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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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 love of husband and wife

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Dec 02 2019
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The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love. St. Paul would not speak so earnestly about this subject without serious reason; why else would he say, “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord?”

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What is unity? Our resurrection

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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 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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How to gain our true liberty

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Nov 21 2019
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With God’s grace, you will gain your true liberty: you will have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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The golden rule of fasting

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Nov 20 2019
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They also found that the eating of greens or pulse did not agree with everyone, and that not everyone could live on dry bread. One man, they said, could eat two pounds of dry bread and still be hungry, while another might eat a pound, or only six ounces, and be satisfied.

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About the abortions on TV

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Nov 19 2019
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A few years ago, at an hour of maximum audience on the Greek national television station (ERT), a debate was held, at the highest level, on the topic of abortions.

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How we should approach the Holy Communion

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Nov 14 2019
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Him we must seek in every way in order that we may feed on Him and ward off hunger by constantly attending this banquet. Nor should we unnecessarily abstain from the holy table and thus greatly weaken our souls on the pretext that we are not really worthy of the Mysteries. Rather, we must resort to the priests for Confession on account of our sins so that we may drink of the cleansing Blood.

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Saint Paisios of Mount Athos about the scandals in Church

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Nov 11 2019
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Some people tell me that they are scandalized because they see many things wrong in the Church. I tell them that if you ask a fly, “Are there any flowers in this area?” it will say, “I don’t know about flowers, but over there in that heap of rubbish you can find all the filth you want.” And it will go on to list all the unclean things it has been to.

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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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We have always the leaders which we deserve

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Nov 07 2019
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Saint Paul says that „Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” because our first aim is to perfection ourselves and not to fight with others, so for this we need to have a stable and peaceful environment.

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How to behave in communities, corporations

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Oct 28 2019
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When you dispute a problem with someone, remember that it isn’t you and the problem against the other but you and the other against the problem.

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

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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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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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We need to respect the small things because paradise isn’t for the sinless

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Oct 16 2019
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When there’s respect for small things, there’ll be even greater respect towards the bigger ones. When there’s no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

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What thoughts we should confess?

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Oct 15 2019
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What thoughts we should confess? This question appears again and again. Here is a simple way to look at it:

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Orthodox survival guide – photo journal from a waterfall

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Oct 09 2019
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The day-by-day spiritual life of an orthodox layman should be settled between him and his priest, in accordance with the Holy Tradition of the Church. This is the norm and the best way to do so.

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Avoid the negative people but do not judge them

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Oct 07 2019
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When we focus on good, good grows. When we focus on bad, bad grows.

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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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Anxiety, fear and cowardice: causes and treatment

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Sep 27 2019
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If you pursue virtue in a monastery or community, you are not likely to be attacked much by fear. But the man who spends his time in more solitary places should make every effort to avoid being overcome by that offspring of vainglory, that daughter of unbelief: cowardice.

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How to keep a gift you have

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Sep 26 2019
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If a man has some spiritual gift and feels compassion for those who do not have it, he preserves the gift because of his compassion. But a boastful man will lose it through succumbing to temptations of boastfulness.

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What is the Uncreated Light and how can we experience it?

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Sep 25 2019
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We must know that the divine light is not a natural phenomenon, like when we hit our head or other causes which generate electrical signals through the nervous system which our brain (more exactly our visual cortex) interprets as light.

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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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Bible, politics and elections

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Sep 12 2019
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Once, the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, “Reign over us!” But the olive tree said to them, “Shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?”

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What Does ‘To Speak With Great Power’ Mean? – 8 years of jail

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Sep 11 2019
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There are some people who impress us more and help us more than others do, even if they say almost the same things as the others.

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God transcends everything. How can we approach Him?

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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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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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The role of courage and of the conscience in the war against the passions

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Sep 06 2019
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There is among the passions an anger of the intellect (mind), and this anger is in accordance with nature – that is courage . Without this anger a person cannot attain purity: we have to feel angry with all that is sown in us by the enemy. When Job felt this anger he reviled his enemies, calling them ‘dishonorable men of no repute, lacking everything good, whom I would not consider fit to live with the dogs that guard my flocks’ (cf. Job 30:1, 4). If we wish to acquire the anger that is in accordance with nature we must […]

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