Lucian Filip

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Many Are the Joys of the Spouses Who Get Along!

Let us treasure marriage harmony more than anything and do our best to maintain peace and tranquillity in our home… Then, children will follow our example and our home will thrive.
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Nothing Can Overcome the Power of Prayer

Let us be humble before God and thus, attract Him towards us. Great is the power of prayer, and greatly valued by God.
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Did You Speak Badly About Someone? Bless that Person!

Were you envious? Pray for the good of the person whom you envied. Confess every sin, without hiding anything, to your spiritual father or to a faithful, pious and honest abbot; keep God’s…
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The Decalogue of Family Happiness

Marriage is a beautiful and a continuous adventure that helps us discover who we truly are, but also the spiritual world of our partner, and know God in humbleness through the small family Church.
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In Marriage, Spouses Need to Know Their Own Duties

We, as young wives, don’t know how to greet our husbands, as educated as they are – for we have chosen them – but although we love them, we don’t know how to welcome them in our home.
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Know that All that You Have Received from God, Was Given as a Loan

Buy yourself rest with struggle, the unseen face of God with watchfulness, the delight of eternal goods through fasting and thirst. Keep in your head your mind and knowledge; in your eyes the look of…
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In the Morning Don’t Forget About Your Spiritual “Breakfast”

In the morning, when your soul is not defiled by foreign impressions, pray God to give you wisdom and enter with great heed in the mystery of God’s judgement and you will understand the teaching of…
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Through Church We Receive Confidence, Strength and Joy

Those who come with zeal and faith to Church, will leave after they receive precious treasures. They only have to open their mouth and will spread fragrance and spiritual richness to those who…
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Christ Loves Courage

Being a Christian means, historically, to take some risks, to be able to confront some threats by maintaining your spiritual strength.
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Don’t Transform Your Wedding into a Bargaining, but Enjoy the Connection of Love!

What do you say man? You covet profit from your wife and you are not ashamed, nor your cheeks turn red from embarrassment and wish you disappeared in the ground?
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Spouses Become One – Do Properties Remain Divided?

You are no longer two bodies after marriage, but you have become one! And you think that you have two fortunes and not one?
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Unless We Forgive, We Won’t Be Forgiven!

Furthermore, when we say “And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive” but we do not forgive, we are indirectly asking for our punishment. “Lord, as I don’t forgive, you shouldn’t forgive me!”
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How much Dedication Can You Have in Your Marriage If You Are Already Sentimentally Exhausted?

The preparation of the bride and groom before marriage is very important, as well as their sentimental and physical condition but also the answer to the question: how much you can dedicate yourself…
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How Can I Become an Ideal Husband?

Everybody needs time to become an ideal husband.
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How to Choose the Name of Your Child

Talking about names, I think that from the first hour after we have given a name to our child we should give him also the zeal of virtue.
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The Groom I Received as a Gift of Prayer and Divine Intercession

And I remembered about the St. Porphyry Kavsokalivit who used to meet in prayer with his disciples.
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Make the Gospel a Custom in Your Life

Read the Gospel, allow its light penetrate your heart, make it a custom in your life. Filter any deeds or problems through the light of the Gospel’s teaching. This is the only light of our life.
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The Tender and Harsh Callings of God

Trials, sorrows, problems and other similar things – are also works of the Holy Spirit, meant to wake us up from the sleep of injustice. For God scolds the faithful people, from who He can fashion “…
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It Hurts, but it Heals Me

Those who do not know Golgotha, who have not truly tasted the Sacrifice of its Blood, cannot have a true Christian love.
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Faith Works only by True Love

Faith without love towards your neighbour is like the earth that absorbs the rain of the heaven but holds it in without allowing it to come outside as a spring. Faith without love is like a burning…
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