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a time of spiritual effort…
“Our life does not flow smoothly and regularly. It moves like every living process in the life of nature, being marked by moments of downfall and exaltation. Lent is a time of spiritual effort. If we...
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the passions…
The passions spur us on like cruel drivers, daily urging us, through our love for earthly things, to act in opposition to the Lord and our own true welfare, and to do what is pleasing to that...
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Fire and water do not mix…
“Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment...
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Lord, I am Thine, save me…
Yelena Cherkasova- The Righteous Soul Enters Heaven -undated I knew a sixty-year old Cypriot lady who had cancer. She came to the monastery, and told me, “I have cancer. The doctors told me that in...
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The last enemy…
“The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Corinthians 15:26). Man’s first enemy is the devil, the second is sin and the third is death. The Lord Jesus conquered all three of these enemies of the...
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Why we honor the Cross…
Why do we honor the Cross with such reverence that we make mention of its power in our prayers after asking for the intercession of the Mother of God and the Heavenly Powers, before asking for that of...
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he cared for the dead…
Venerable Daniel of Pereyaslavl (Come and See Icons) from the OCA: Saint Daniel of Pereslavl (in the world Demetrius) was born around 1460 in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessk. His parents were the pious...
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Help me to see my own transgressions … and not to judge my brother!
Ilya Repin’s Two Peasant Women (1878). “We should look upon all the faithful as one person and consider that Christ is in each one of them. We should have such love for them that we are ready to...
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the slaying of death in us…
St Mary the Egyptian- icon Asceticism is the slaying of death in us, to liberate our nature from its bondage, as Saint Maximos the Confessor points out. There are really two deaths: The first is...
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our souls will burn…
(The Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi, commemorated on April 10th.) In the 14th century, Timur (Tamerlane) invaded Georgia inflicting irreparable damage, at which time he and his army forced their way into the...
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The Lord has created me…
Pascha Still Life (artist unknown) The Lord has created me, has brought me from nonentity into being, and after I had fallen, has restored me through His sufferings and death; He has cleansed me, a...
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a virtuous life…
Do not say that it is impossible to achieve a virtuous life, but say that it is not easy. Those who have achieved the virtuous life find it is not easy to maintain. Those who are devout, and whose...
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Walls…
St Jovan Kaneo Monastery overlooking Lake Ohrid excerpt: Prayer LVI The walls that stand between you and truth and loom up before you like colossal mountains, which you have been trying to cross by...
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a divine institution…
Praying by the prayer of Jesus is a divine institution. It was instituted not by means of an Apostle or by means of an Angel; it was instituted by the Son of God and God Himself. After the mystical...
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Quantity & Quality of Prayer…
Vladimir Yeshtokin- A Joyful Place (2012) ~St. John Climacus Being enslaved by passions, let us persevere in praying to the Lord: for all those who have reached the state of passionlessness did so with...
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Prayers for Boston…
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Thou hast honored…
Russian Orthodox Church ~ Interior I gaze upon the icons in the temple – upon Thy Holy icon, my Lord, and upon that of Thy Most Pure Mother and of the Angels and all Thy saints, all adorned and...
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the Kingdom of God within…
We can keep guard over the whole world by keeping guard over the atmosphere of heaven within us, for if we lose the Kingdom of Heaven, we will save neither ourselves nor others. He who has the Kingdom...
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But give rather the spirit of… humility…
When you are slandered, and therefore grow disturbed and sick at heart, it shows that pride is in you, and that it must be wounded and driven out by outward dishonor. Therefore do not be irritated by...
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Holy Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer…
Click to view slideshow. Commemorated on April 23 The Holy Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer, was a native of Cappadocia (a district in Asia Minor), and he grew up in a deeply believing Christian...
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