When you are seeking for a wife, ask God

If you are looking for a wife, don’t seek the help of people, but ask God. Tell him “Whoever you want, that one send her to me, through your Grace.”

Admitting our shortcomings, our prayer is filled with honesty

Let’s make the effort of using our shortcomings in order to acquire the humble reasoning, because this is the enemy of pride that we don’t even take in consideration ourselves. You worry because you judge your neighbour: if we will be humble, we will no longer judge our neighbour. Let’s pray with humbleness, as the tax collector did, and God will hear our prayer- because God hears the prayer of the humble.

Prayer is not a rule, it’s a necessity

Saint Teophan the Recluse advises the parents not to force their children to read prayers from books but to pray from the heart: “God have mercy”, “Thank you God”, “Praise to you, O, Lord” every time he recalls God.

Hour of spiritual questions - confronting the Holy Cross

Each time you see the sign of the Holy Cross you should wonder: “Did I do my prayer in the morning?” “Or I didn’t?” When you see the sign of the Holy Cross, wonder: “Have I been to church last Sunday? Or I haven’t?” When it’s Wednesday and you see the sign of the Holy Cross, ask yourself: “Have I fasten today or I haven’t?”

How can we “win” the grace of God?

Do you know what it means to be serious? To be accomplished. Have faith in God and you will always be cheerful, happy and serious.

How can we fight against selfishness?

First of all, we should start by realising that we are selfish, and after to pray to the Lord to soften our heart, to make ourselves better and be ashamed of our selfishness.

You cannot pray?

When you are too tired to follow your canon, especially at night, after a long, tiring day, here’s how you should pray.

Have you sinned? Tell God and don’t despair!

Tell God: ‘I have sinned!’ Is it really so hard to confess your sin? If you do not judge yourself, you will have as judge the devil.

Through prayer and faith, we cast from our life the work of the enemy

Let us not be shacked by temptations and neither be amazed of the courage of the cursed, but dwelling in faith and fervent prayer and receiving help from above, cast the work of the enemy from our life.

Through repentance, we start a new life from scratch

The purification of the heart starts with this profound cry. In this moment we receive a new power and we end up by seeing the light.

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