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The Silence of the Children – Photo journal from Annunciation (Great Saturday) – Part 2: The Liturgy (Audio)

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  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Obedience
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  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Mar 25 2020
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The Archangel Gabriel said to the Virgin Mary, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you amongst women.” Hidden meanings in the words of the Mother of God

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The Gift of Shyness – photo journal from Annunciation (Good Friday) – part 1: Vigil (Audio)

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  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Mar 24 2020
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The Mother of God was the purest being created as all the holy fathers confess together. Her basic virtue was and is virginity, the gift of shyness – the full purity of her entire existence, not only from the bodily but also from spiritual (mental) point of view.

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The Causes of the Pandemic – photo journal from the Sunday of the Cross (Audio)

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
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  • 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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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • 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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Embrace the change

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  • Saint Anthony the Great
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 19 2020
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We must embrace the change. It is pointless to continuously resist. We must cut off our will in front of others.

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

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  • 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 eight evil thoughts – Photo Journal from the feast of Saint Ephraim the Syrian (Audio)

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ephraim the Syrian
  • Vices and virtues
Feb 10 2020
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Know that there are eight evil thoughts that bring about all that is vile: those of sensuality, lechery, love of money, anger, inappropriate grief, despondency, vainglory and pride. All these wage warfare against every person.

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Self love is the cause of all impassioned thoughts

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Repentance
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
  • Vices and virtues
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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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • 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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How to find a good spouse?

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  • Love
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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Slander
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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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • 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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My apocalypse

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  • Love
  • Miracles
  • Obedience
  • Sleep and vigil
Jan 16 2020
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Generally speaking, by “apocalypse” (ἀποκάλυψις) the people understand “revelation” or, more literally, “uncovering”. The term is tied, mainly, with Saint John Theologian’s work – Book of Revelation – from the New Testament which describes using pseudonymity and symbolic imagery for the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom.

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The woodcutter – A photo journal from the woods

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 15 2020
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In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain.

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The irrationality of war

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  • 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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Defeat is a state of mind

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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Saint Ambrose of Optina
Jan 09 2020
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Boredom is the grandson of depression, and laziness is the daughter. To send her away, labor actively – do not be lazy in prayer, then boredom will pass and zeal will come. And if you add to this zeal day by day with patience and humility, then you will escape much evil.

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Saint Joseph the Hesychast was anti-medicines then later opened up to them

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
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  • Love
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  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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  • Victory over death
Jan 08 2020
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My child, I hope you are well. Just recently, I got somewhat better too. This is how my life has passed, with pain and illnesses. Now I have approached death once again for your sake. I said, “Let me die, only let my spiritual children live.” And I didn’t eat at all.

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

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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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Strategy and Geopolitics

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  • 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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Saint Mark the Ascetic: The greatest passions

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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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The Push-Button civilization

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  • Love
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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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The testament of Saint Porphyriros: a proof of his humbleness

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Dec 05 2019
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My dear spiritual Children, While I’m still în charge of my faculties, I’d like to give you some advice.

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What is unity? Our resurrection

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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 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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  • Vices and virtues
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 illusion of wealth

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  • Renunciation of the world
Nov 18 2019
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But wealth, someone may say, bring honor to those who possess them, and give them the power to take vengeance on their enemies easily.

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How we should approach the Holy Communion

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  • Vices and virtues
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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We have always the leaders which we deserve

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  • Miracles
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  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
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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Saint Daniel of Katounakia: The power of blessing

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  • Obedience
Nov 05 2019
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There was a young monk/brother who was puffed up with pride about his abilities. He was very strong, with a lot of dexterity and, hence, he could work a lot and, also, do a lot of prostrations.

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

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
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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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