Archimandrite Teofil Părăian

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Hiding Your Sins in Confession Doubles Them

Every time you hide a sin that you carry it for many years, but you still have confessed and received communion in this time, the reality is that your sins are multiplied.
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True Love Does Not Set People Apart

The proud distance themselves from other people as the Pharisee did in the evangelical parable saying “God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are!”
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Are you or are you not a believer? A guideline to find out the answer!

Faith brings you closer to God and his ways and if you don’t believe in God nothing else can bring you closer to him.
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Evil thoughts are cast away only by good thoughts

The best way to clear your thoughts is to have a main thought that you should focus on, and ignore the coming evil thoughts and encouraging the good ones. The best method to do that is by saying this…
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The life of a Christian – is it boring?

The life of a true Christian is not boring, it is peaceful, filled with light, and it is a life of spiritual rest
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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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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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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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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.
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The evil thought is casted only with a good one

The best way to gather your thoughts is having a main one that helps you to recognise the others, and to cast the evil and support the good ones. The easiest way is this prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ,…
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First comes God and the man after!

You can know that you love God from the joy of serving to Him, the joy of following his commandments. You don’t resist to them and you take God into account!
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Are you or are you not a believer? A guideline to find out the answer!

Faith brings you closer to God and his ways and if you don’t believe in God nothing else can bring you closer to him.
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Virgin Mary, a mother for eternity

A mother is a mother for eternity. A mother will never cease to be a mother.
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How can you get over grievance?

There are two things in particular that you cannot do without faith in God: to endure a great pain and raise good children.
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