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The canon set by your spiritual father is not a punishment but a treatment

The passions nurtured for years needs to be surmounted through tears and sufferance, through a constant, self-conscious and serious effort, otherwise the recovery of man and his religious life are…
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Confess your sins having faith in God’s love and forgiveness

Our confession should be done trusting in God’s forgiveness, and not in despair as that of Cain who said “My punishment is greater than I can bear” (Genesis 4: 13). In a similar way, Judas confessed…
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Oh, Heaven, how beautiful you are!

What is Heaven? It is a place filled with evergreen flowers, full of spiritual scents, the joy of angels, the paschal life, divine love, incessant doxology to God and eternal life! Therefore, there…
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God appreciates diligence more than the result

Everything is appreciated by God in his divine way, not in a humanly way, because God does not offer rewards for our acts but for the effort.
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Perseverance in prayer – the most useful medicine

Perseverance in sincere prayer is indeed useful and very powerful. If we had prayed to God and he listened, we should thank Him.
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All steps to God are counted by angels

While he was going to seek water day after day, the old man wondered “why should I do this painful effort every day? I’d rather move my shelter close to the stream of water, so I spare myself the…
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How can a man become firm and to know what he has to do?

He should ask God what to do and he should also ask for determination. There is no other way. Otherwise he will be firm for a month and then he will fall even lower that before.
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Offer bread and receive heaven

Give to the poor and in the hour of your death you will be silent numerous mouths will defend you; for your alms will be there and testify for your salvation.
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The parents have to train the child for the real life

The child is for his parents both the gift and the blessing of God. Parents can fashion from this raw dough a man of the good or through indolence, can jeopardize the child’s future, who will have a…
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Let us accustom our children with doing good deeds

The child, from a young age, learns quickly what he is being told and what he hears imprints on his soul as the stamp in wax. By this, his life starts to balance either to sin or to virtue. 
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The two glasses of water – Queen Maria and the story of fidelity

Beauty belongs to the woman that her man loves, the one whom he married. Another woman that delights him has nothing extra to offer physically. Only that she is another heart, she has another…
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The trap of ‘trial marriage’

The mutilated life of their parents scare the children and they try not to repeat their parents’ sad experience. To this effect, they invented the following scheme: ‘We try and if we succeed in…
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With Christ, we are not afraid of the evil!

Why are you afraid of? Will it be more frightening than the devil? He is a man. Saint Marina defeated the devil and Saint Justina banished so many. As a matter of fact, we did not come to have fun in…
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How can you know who’s your ‘soul mate’

That feeling of ‘rest’ or ‘peace’ is not restrained only for the body, but concerns the soul in particular, thus covering the entire human existence.
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Can we do harm even when we only want to help?

If he gives you his arm and you cannot pull him out, he will drag you down and both of you will die. 
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Making the sign of the Holy Cross – a reason to be ashamed of in modern society?

God says that we cannot serve two lords, God and the world, and Apostle Jacob shows that the one who wants to be the friend of the world, is the enemy of God. We cannot serve the world, i.e. the…
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Saint Paraskevi, thank you for everything!

I am grateful to her for every time she hastened to help me when I cried my trouble before her Holy relics.
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Are we really paying attention to what our soul is missing?

In order to clean itself, the soul has the baptismal water and repentance, the divine meal of the Holy Communion as food and force, it has in this life Church and its holy ministers, and as payment…
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Love with all your heart and you will know what true joy is!

When you think this way, when you become one with this idea, it is impossible for you not to love God and not to be happy to abide the commandments, as you can. The same is with the love of your…
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Nourishment for our soul

The bread and water of our soul come from above, from heaven, because they are to this day nourishment for those who advance towards salvation.
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