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The Easy and Righteous Fast

The first step of fasting is abstinence from expensive and hearty food. This will ease the belly and body from the burden coming from abundant food. Also, the imagination is clean, because the…
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Through Sorrows We Achieve Salvation

Endure with patience all illness and sorrow that were bestowed upon you, so that you may remain on the right path.
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How to Benefit from Fasting?

If you see a poor man have mercy on him. If you see a beautiful woman, do not taint your heart with this thought. Not only your mouth should be fasting but also your eyes and ears, feet, hands and…
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You Are a Fighter? Then Be a Winner!

You, my dear, are one of these fighters! You are part of God’s soldiers on earth, fighting together with the heavenly host, for the Gospel’s victory.
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Parents and Spiritual Fathers Are to Teach the Child How to Pray

Prayer is necessary for all people in order to achieve their salvation and eternal happiness. Thus Christians need to learn how to pray to God since their infancy.
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Christ Loves More than the Devil Hates

Have you started to love your enemy yet? Do not isolate yourself. Your little finger may not seem very important but it plays a huge part in the anatomy of the human body. If you loved people as if…
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Fasting Is the Crown of Those Who Refrain Themselves

Fasting protects all virtues. It is the beginning of spiritual struggle, the crown of those who refrain themselves, the beauty of virginity and purity, the brilliance of wisdom, the beginning of the…
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Our Only Duty Is Love

Concerning money, we praise people who do not owe anything to anyone, but in the case of love we admire those who are always in debt. And, as in the first case it is a sign of lack of gratitude, in…
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Taking Care of Children Is the Greatest Prayer

With kind words the abbot said to the father: “I was glad for you last night. You sang all night and prayed. You did well! But you would have had a bigger blessing to sit a half an hour next to your…
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Letter to Your Heart

May I turn on the lights in your soul? I want to see all your wounds and cure them. I do not want to step on them and hurt you even more. It is cold in here, light the fire of love! Your heart is a…
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Give not Only What You Have but also What You Are – This Is How You Learn to Love

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich -Therefore, all Christians should know that there are three types of spirits: The Holy Spirit of God, the natural spirit and the demonic spirits. I repeat: man is as his…
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Temptations Attack from Outside and Inside

From the inside, that is from the heart come all our sins. For Christ has said to the Apostles: “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man” because it would mean to wash your hands “but that…
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Marriage is for Life

There are few exceptions when the Church allows the separation of spouses.
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Why are Some Good Deeds Useless?

When people restrain themselves from food but are gossiping and envy someone, it is considered a sin. What is the use of the bodily fasting if we ignore the spiritual fasting? What is the use of…
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Children Are God’s Reward for the Parents

Having babies is God’s special blessing, as it is written in the Bible “And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb” (Deuteronomy 7:13).
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Plant in Your Children’s Heart the Love of Nature!

From the cradle, children need to be surrounded by beauty. They need to be taught to see the beauty of the flowers, of the trees and of the butterflies around them.
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If You Love Your Child, manifest your love!

If you truly love your child, manifest your love and you shall be rewarded for it. Listen again the teaching of the Holy Apostle Paul: “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they…
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The Might of the People Who Fear God

Those who fear God are as a giant among dwarfs or as a lion roaring among dogs and foxes, entrusting their faith in the Lord.
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God Suffers With Those Who Suffer

When I was in prison and I saw people who died in prayer, people who were suffering and prayed for those who made them suffer, people who were in prison together with their children and their parents…
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How Far Goes the Care of Parents for their Children?

Speak to the children as if they were adults but adapt your word to their level of understanding.
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