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Pray together for a tight knit family!

When your children will say “Holy God” they will hear the chants of the angels, who were once seen by a child in Constantinople in the time of the patriarch Proclus. When they will read “It is truly…
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How can we know if someone is a true friend?

First of all, you need to see if he or she is willing to make sacrifices. Not for you, but in general, for everybody. If you will see that this person is not willing to make sacrifices, that is…
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Don’t boast when you help someone!

It happened to be here and to be able to help you. But if it wasn’t for me, God would have sent somebody else! Because God said “I can rise the sons of Abraham even from the stones”. Unfortunately,…
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The Mother of God is also our mother

We should thank God that we have Virgin Mary as intercessor, as our help. We should not forget and trust that: “what God can do in his might, the Mother of God can do through her payer”.
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If you don’t love everybody you don’t love enough

In love we need to love everybody, same as God loves us the way we are, despite our sinful condition.
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It’s good to know how to ask for forgiveness

It’s not hard to forgive but to obtain forgiveness – and not through a meaningless sentence of conventional use, but through something that comes from the bottom of your soul.
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While in trouble we should put our trust in God

Anyone who is in trouble asks God in his prayers to cast the problem away from his life, and they rightly do so. Nevertheless, we need to entrust ourselves in the will of God, because He knows better…
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In church we pray better than in any other place

In church we will find even more peace and redeeming joy and there we prepare our soul to receive worthily, as much as we can the Holy Communion.
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Love without Christ fades quickly

The bride that enters as a virgin in Church to the Sacrament of Marriage, remains a virgin all her life – even after she will give birth to children – and the groom as well, of course if they live in…
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Blessed are they that have not seen but have believed!

God resources to wonders in order to convince us only in special cases, and calls in a mystical way each one of us. Which means that our heart is lit by His light, we understand Him, we feel His call…
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Oh, Heaven, how beautiful you are!

What does Heaven represent? It is a place with unfaded flowers, filled with spiritual fragrances, it is the angels’ joy, the Easter life, divine love, ceaseless prayer raised to God and an eternal…
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God appreciates more the effort than the result

There all appreciated by God in His divine way – not a human one – for God rewards your struggle and not the deed and its result.
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Perseverance in prayer – the most useful treatment

Perseverance in the prayer in truth and spirit is very useful and has a great power. If we prayed and God listened, we should be grateful to Him.
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Each step towards God is counted by the angels

An old man was living in the desert, about 12 miles from any water source. Each day walking to bring water, very tired and upset the man said: ‘Why do I need this daily tiredness? Rather, I should…
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How can man decide, know what to do?

He should ask God what to do. There is no other way. Otherwise, we would have a one month decision and afterwards fall much worse than would before.
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The fulfilment of all wishes

Has something happened as you wanted, be grateful; if not, don’t be sad for nothing is eternal here and all things are temporal in this world. One care alone you are to have, don’t be a stranger to…
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Without self-sacrifice there is no salvation

Usually, when it comes about himself, man is always unfair and changes the scale; he is more rightful towards himself, he chooses the better, the biggest, and the most beautiful part: he cries and…
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The Mother of God, our hope

The Mother of God is hope: ‘All my hope I place in thee, O Mother of God: keep me under thy protection!’
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Let’s be grateful both for blessings and for trials

Let’s be grateful for the blessings given by God, and also for the evils the He allowed in our life. Why? For these ones are helpful, too.
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God’s saints can greatly sanctify, but none as the Holy Mother of God

Brethren, you should have much piety towards Virgin Mary, for joyful is the family and the house that has inside it an icon of Our Lady and every morning reads her Akatist and Paraklesis, and all…
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