Lucian Filip

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Children, always bear God in your thoughts!

Even from infancy, children will get accustomed to pray before and after a meal, before and after finishing lessons, leaving or getting into the house, or before anything else that they do.
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Parents, rejoice your children!

May that the serene and pure joy of a happy infancy be with our children, even from their cradle. May that love incessantly comfort and tender warm their hearts.
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Love, cornerstone of family

Kids know everything, and they feel the absence of divine grace in their family. It remains only form without content, the salt that has lost its taste. Let us therefore strive to keep the love and…
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When a child learns how to pray, he learns what joy is

From the rhythm of our breathing we can guess the healthiness of our body. How big is the parents’ fear when their child is hardly breathing and in danger of suffocating. But we should fear more the…
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Learn how not to judge your neighbour

Take the example of the Almighty God, who forgave the sins of so many murderers and enemies. 
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Humble yourself so God won’t humble you

„Brother, for the sake of the great gift God has given to you that through your sins so much you’ve damaged consider this: think of yourself as the most unworthy and faultiest of them all. Be…
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Prayer- conversation and reconciliation with God

Prayer is the conversation and union of man with God, strength of the world, mother of tears, cleansing of sins.
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The cross of marriage

Family means bearing a cross, because in a time when less and less children are born, Christian parents, and especially mothers, are taking the responsibility of bearing in their wombs babies, as a…
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Make out of your soul a welcoming house for our Lord!

The light of God, given to us in abundance through the Holy Mysteries and services, personal prayer, Jesus’ prayer and the study of patristic books, they all aim towards the same target: to make out…
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The light of Christ - the gift of our life

The most precious gift for our spiritual life is the light of Christ, the light of life. But for this gift we need to have spiritual eyes and spiritual sight. Without them, the light of Christ has no…
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If God wants you to become a wife, you will. Don’t insist for nothing!

If God wants you to be the wife of that man, you will no matter what.
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The mutual prayer of spouses has great power before God

The mutual prayer of spouses is pleasant to God and is very powerful. Maybe for this reason, the devil tries to prevent you from praying together. 
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Can we understand the power of each event in our life?

Life is like a book. Its pages are the events in our life… There’s nothing in our life that wasn’t important, but often we just don’t understand it. Only the bright minds, enlighten by the grace of…
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We receive meekness and humbleness only when we truly wish for it

Nothing is more pleasant and gracious before God than meekness and humbleness.
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Youth’s habits are the joy and guard of life

Young man! Be wise and cautious: pay attention from the years of your youth towards creating good habits! Habits have a similar power with that of natural characteristics: whoever is following the…
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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.”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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