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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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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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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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Christ, Who Are the Poor in Spirit?

What would Christ answer if we would meet Him and ask, as reporters do: What does it mean “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven?”
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The Ten Blessings of Family

Blessed is the house where love rules, because where love rules there is also blessing, and where blessing is, Jesus is present. Where Jesus is present, there is joy, peace and serenity.
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The Mystery of Marriage Is Written in Heaven

Marriage is not just an agreement recognised only by the laws of society but it also has an eternal value through the Mystery of Marriage – and becomes an eternal union in Christ.
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Having God near, Everything Goes Easy and Well

God “takes care of you” and all you necessities. He takes care of you as one of His little children. He takes in His custody your sorrows and difficulties. Everything goes easy and well.
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Taking Care of Children Is the Greatest Prayer

With kind words the abbot said to the father: “I was glad for you last night. You sang all night and prayed. You did well! But you would have had a bigger blessing to sit a half an hour next to your…
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Children Are God’s Reward for the Parents

Having babies is God’s special blessing, as it is written in the Bible “And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb” (Deuteronomy 7:13).
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Before Giving You Your Cross, God Measured Your Courage

Before sending you your cross to bear, God has measured it with His beautiful and gentle eyes, with his divine reason, checked it with His tender hands so that it will not be heavier than you can…
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Suffering – The School of Life

Suffering is a wonderful school through which God talks to the believer in a wonderful language. Suffering is, for the life of the believer, a cloud from which in the end drops of a blessed rain will…
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We Have Eaten But Have We Fed Ourselves?

The spiritual nurture is prayer, “our daily bread” of the soul. But, Jesus Christ has offered Himself as the food of our life and salvation of our soul by partaking with His Body and Blood.
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Saint Paraskevi, Give Me Patience and Teach Me How to Be a Humble Person!

Saint Paraskevi, please help me! You know the suffering and misery of my soul. Pray to God to heal my heart so I can feel pure and in peace. You know all I have been through, you know the meaning of…
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Gratitude – the light of our life

An old teaching says that gratitude is a rare flower. If we would consider these words, we would no longer wonder that our soul is sick and that the world is suffering. We are often unsatisfied by…
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How should you act with those who lie but accuse you of not trusting them?

Accept what they say without believing them, without judging them, without saying anything. Just pray “Lord have mercy, make her (him) understand that what he says is not true”. But do this without…
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Behind every pain there is a blessing

Pain is a bad thing, but behind it, behind the suffering and the test lies the blessing of God, the rebirth and the refashion of man and of family. Almost everyone owes their return to this aspect.…
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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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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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Make your heart a house of God

He wants to make your house and heart ‘a house of God’ filled with grace and power, light, peace, joy, and true happiness. Oh brother, open the door for Him, open it at once, give him all the keys…
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