Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc
 

“You Should Marry for Good or Don’t Marry At All”

There is no security, perspective, meaning or goal if there is no God. If love doesn’t grow in the bosom of the Church, then it doesn’t exist at all.

The Best Prayer Program – Recommended by Father Arsenie Papacioc

When you have a job, either you are a doctor or a student, teacher, do your duty as a Christian and thus you fulfil the word of God! And when you finish your work there, you can say your prayers in peace.

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 they were Christ then you will no longer see their flaws, what they did and said.

How to protect yourself from gossips?

The other obstacle is raised by the devil in our soul through the love of self – “the devil’s first offspring.” There are three tools against the devil: The name of God, the name of Theotokos and the Holy Cross.

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 education, another commitment, another presence… The woman casts away all these beautiful gifts when she gets married to a silly husband. When I hear that he beat his wife I become very angry…

If you make silence in your soul, you will hear the answer to your prayer

Jesus Christ himself, in order to show us the use and need of a silent life, from time to time he let aside public sermon and went to silent places, so that he find peace and pray.

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 Christ.

Virgin Mary waits for our prayers

The prayer of the Virgin Mary is as strong as the power of God.

Don’t seek for reward and it will come on its own

Although others rightly consider themselves eagles, even if you have the power and the wings of an eagle as well, you should settle being a little merry lark flying upright heralding the dawn.

Never give up; fight!

Even if you are in Bucharest, or in a remote village, Christ is the same everywhere. God knows beforehand what you need, but he wants you to fight. Don’t give up, don’t leave your life for the upcoming challenges!