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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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“Repentance and Humbleness Complete the Deeds you Have Not done” – Father Ilie Cleopa

For instance you do prostrations. When I was young I would compete with my brothers and see who can do more prostrations in an hour. I could do 500, but now I can’t do even one.
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Our Egoism Determines Us to Ignore our Spiritual Father

How can we advance from a spiritual point of view when we despise our spiritual father, the delegate of Christ? When we trust only in our egoism?
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Hiding Your Sins in Confession Doubles Them

Every time you hide a sin that you carry it for many years, but you still have confessed and received communion in this time, the reality is that your sins are multiplied.
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If We Ask, God Will Help Us

Miracles were bestowed upon many sinners, and returned to the path of the Truth, of salvation. Thus, what shall we do? We will all write letters to Heaven? Yes we will. As every Christian did since…
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Are you or are you not a believer? A guideline to find out the answer!

Faith brings you closer to God and his ways and if you don’t believe in God nothing else can bring you closer to him.
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What Is True Repentance?

The repentance of those who think that through a day of fast they will redeem the sin of their repeated intoxication with food and alcohol will be in vain!
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Do not Stay Away from Our Saviour’s Body and Blood

The most beautiful and sacred invitation is the one made by the priest: ‘With fear of God, faith, and Love, draw near!’ He doesn’t say ‘go away!’ We receive the Crucified and Resurrected Christ and…
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The canon set by your spiritual father is not a punishment but a treatment

The passions nurtured for years needs to be surmounted through tears and sufferance, through a constant, self-conscious and serious effort, otherwise the recovery of man and his religious life are…
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Confess your sins having faith in God’s love and forgiveness

Our confession should be done trusting in God’s forgiveness, and not in despair as that of Cain who said “My punishment is greater than I can bear” (Genesis 4: 13). In a similar way, Judas confessed…
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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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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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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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Have you sinned? Tell God and don’t despair!

Tell God: ‘I have sinned!’ Is it really so hard to confess your sin? If you do not judge yourself, you will have as judge the devil.
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Are you or are you not a believer? A guideline to find out the answer!

Faith brings you closer to God and his ways and if you don’t believe in God nothing else can bring you closer to him.
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“You should go light a big candle!”

“My Saint Ephraim, I don’t know who you are. It is the first time I’ve heard your name…” I entreated him with a lot of faith, me the sinner, to make my husband well. After two hours, as I was in…
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