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If it’s useful for your salvation, God will allow for your marriage as well!

If this proposal to marriage will be useful for you, God will send His help and blessing, and if it isn’t then through His judgement he will undo this plan. Being at God’s mercy, at not seeking to…
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How do we plant the seed of prayer in our children’s heart?

While children are young, in our home there should be some rules that, as soon as our children grow up, should be reduced little by little, in order to give them some freedom.  
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How should we behave towards those who have fallen from faith?

Be careful so that you don’t hate those who don’t believe. Pray to God for them. You will be a missionary. Your first rule should be: pray to God for those who have fallen from faith. The grace of…
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Without love, life is torment

God’s commandments are easy only when there’s love, because if it weren’t for love, then everything became a torment. 
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What’s the use of being pale and weakened from fasting if our heart is filled with hatred?

What’s the use for our body to be deprived of food if our soul is filled with sins? What’s the use of being pale and weakened from fasting if our heart is filled with hatred?
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My dears, after you sit the conscience exam, which one of you will pass it?

Let’s be humans in the whole meaning of the word, to bear humanity in oneself. Humbleness is similar with humanity. Unfortunately, in today’s world there’s little humanity. Each one is thinking about…
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Love is present in the smallest things

Love is present in all the bodily gestures, when, serving God the body is filled with spiritual fruits, when man raises his hands towards God for charity and partaking, when he directs his steps…
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You don’t get to heaven on your own but living in communion

Loneliness isolates you, makes you helpless, and prevents your spirit to enjoy the good things of this world, especially those of the spiritual world, while life in community saves you from many…
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Show your wife plenty of love

 “I chose you because I like your behaviour, cleverness, wisdom, kindness and purity. Because I have learned to undervalue fortune as something fruitless.”
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Women should listen to the man, if the head of man is Christ

“Women should fear men”, if the head of men is Christ, but if his head is sin and his god is his stomach, then she hasn’t any salvation advice to learn from him. Without Christ he is dead and the…
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The most important tears are those on our cheeks

In our everyday life we shed tears when we miss our mother, father, children, and wife and so on. But out of all tears, the most important ones are the tears shed when the man meets God and the tears…
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Pray together for a tight knit family!

When your children will say “Holy God” they will hear the chants of the angels, who were once seen by a child in Constantinople in the time of the patriarch Proclus. When they will read “It is truly…
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How can we know if someone is a true friend?

First of all, you need to see if he or she is willing to make sacrifices. Not for you, but in general, for everybody. If you will see that this person is not willing to make sacrifices, that is…
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Don’t boast when you help someone!

It happened to be here and to be able to help you. But if it wasn’t for me, God would have sent somebody else! Because God said “I can rise the sons of Abraham even from the stones”. Unfortunately,…
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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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If you don’t love everybody you don’t love enough

In love we need to love everybody, same as God loves us the way we are, despite our sinful condition.
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It’s good to know how to ask for forgiveness

It’s not hard to forgive but to obtain forgiveness – and not through a meaningless sentence of conventional use, but through something that comes from the bottom of your soul.
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While in trouble we should put our trust in God

Anyone who is in trouble asks God in his prayers to cast the problem away from his life, and they rightly do so. Nevertheless, we need to entrust ourselves in the will of God, because He knows better…
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In church we pray better than in any other place

In church we will find even more peace and redeeming joy and there we prepare our soul to receive worthily, as much as we can the Holy Communion.
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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…
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