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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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Let’s be grateful both for blessings and for trials

Let’s be grateful for the blessings given by God, and also for the evils the He allowed in our life. Why? For these ones are helpful, too.
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God’s saints can greatly sanctify, but none as the Holy Mother of God

Brethren, you should have much piety towards Virgin Mary, for joyful is the family and the house that has inside it an icon of Our Lady and every morning reads her Akatist and Paraklesis, and all…
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Children need well dosed freedom in order to grow up in harmony

If we hold them too tight as in a chain, saying always “no” to them, children may rebel and you will lose all authority. Actually, from his point of view you will become a negative influence.…
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Please God, watch my mouth!

Learn how to keep quiet even when it’s not bad to talk just to get used to this.
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Let the children come to world!

“Why should we start with children from the first year of our marriage, let’s live a while our life, we still have time for children later.” If you think like this, you open the path to sin and all…
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The only thing that God is asking from man

Man always asks God to make wonders. But what about God? He asks man to recover the holiness he had lost.
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Morning Prayer - heart’s dew

When you wake up in the morning, think that God gives you the day that you wouldn’t have been able to give it yourself and save one hour or a quarter of an hour from the day He gave you as sacrifice…
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God’s grace and not our virtues will save us

You’d better search our Lord’s mercy and not reward for our struggle. Thus, you will get to salvation faster than the unwise strugglers.
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How should I make myself loved and pleasant to my husband?

Not so golden ornaments make you loved and pleasant to your husband as the sense of measure, care for him and the readiness to give even your life for him. Know and be certain that if you were the…
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Be diligent in the work of salvation!

Therefore, you need to be diligent and watchful, don’t waste in vain the time of your life, because it is a gift in raising the soul towards the achievement of the eternal goods. Bear in mind and…
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Love casts out curious inquiry as a useless spy.

Love casts out curious inquiry as a useless spy.
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Here the true happiness: to love and be loved!

Love is not genetically transmitted from your ancestors such as beauty, eye colour, strength and talent are. It cannot be inherited as the fortune of your rich uncle. I cannot be bought with money,…
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The legacy of parents to their sons: the guard and help of God

Do you want God to love you? Then make him your debtor, lending him the aims given to the poor. Don’t entrust people with your money. Do you want your children to be rich? Then live them the…
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The Holy Cross - direct link between earth and heaven

The image of a cross is made up from a vertical and horizontal line. The vertical line reminds us that we come from heaven and we’ll go to heaven.
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Is the love of money a deal with the devil?

The devil doesn’t have much trouble with the wealthy. He easily fetters them through luxury and leads them into perdition. This is why, our Lord said: “Children, how hard is it for them that trust in…
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God, forgive me! Why is repentance so important?

To repent means knowing your sins, washing them in the tears of your repentance and deciding to start a new life
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There’s no bigger joy than loving God

But when our soul knows the love of God through the Holy Spirit, then he feels that God is like a Father for us, the closest, the dearest and kindest.
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Through prayer we ask for God’s advice

Prayer makes people brothers with the angels. Prayer, made in Spirit and truth, has the power of raising Christians who do it, to their highest rank, wisdom, honour and level of life.
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Mothers, teach your children pray!

As “mother” and “father” are the first words in children’s vocabulary, in a similar way his first conversations with God should start with “Theotokos” and “our Father”.
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