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You May Drink, But In Moderation!

Flee drunkenness as not to fall in the sin of fornication. God created wine for us, but for the joy of the heart and not for drunkenness.
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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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Who Is the Devil and How Does He Work?

The devil was, and will always be darkness, lie and perdition, with a clear purpose – to rebel against everything that comes from God and against God’s providence and man in particular.
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Fighting Thoughts – Past as Fault, Future as Fear, Sin as Constant Temptation

The devil, in order to trouble you, sends you all sorts of thoughts. About past, future, present, about the sins that you did or could do, through dreams or visions that may seem to be “from God.”
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Temptations Attack from Outside and Inside

From the inside, that is from the heart come all our sins. For Christ has said to the Apostles: “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man” because it would mean to wash your hands “but that…
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Why are Some Good Deeds Useless?

When people restrain themselves from food but are gossiping and envy someone, it is considered a sin. What is the use of the bodily fasting if we ignore the spiritual fasting? What is the use of…
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Put Your Trust into God and Tread upon Fear

Bear in mind that our Lord’s providence is upon us. God said “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means…
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God Waits For You to Return in His Loving Arms

Despite your faults, God did not cease to watch upon us, feeding and balancing our life, patiently waiting for us to repent, to return and haste to Him.
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How to control your thoughts while praying?

According to Father Porphyries all these thoughts that come into our mind while praying are like planes. First, you can hear them in the distance, as a background noise, and gradually the noise…
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Nothing else can quench the thirst of living water

We want to take a sip from the water of Christianity and never be thirsty again, to never have to go to the well again and to know the truth in Jesus Christ.
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Does God help kind people but who do not believe in Him?

God has left us all a legacy, and this is why all people are good in their heart. But the devil ruins everything. Some have kept this kindness, even if they do not live in the bosom of the Church.…
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The dark side of our imagination

St. Hesychius of Sinai teaches that imagination was the main cause of man’s fall: ‘And so it separated Adam from God, giving him visions of divine dignity. And so the liar and cunning enemy tends to…
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Man is not saved without a wilful struggle

The seed does not grow without water or earth and man is not saved without wilful struggles. Like rain does not fall without clouds, neither man cannot be pleasing to God and be saved without a clean…
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With Christ, we are not afraid of the evil!

Why are you afraid of? Will it be more frightening than the devil? He is a man. Saint Marina defeated the devil and Saint Justina banished so many. As a matter of fact, we did not come to have fun in…
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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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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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Through prayer and faith, we cast from our life the work of the enemy

Let us not be shacked by temptations and neither be amazed of the courage of the cursed, but dwelling in faith and fervent prayer and receiving help from above, cast the work of the enemy from our…
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Man’s despair, the devil’s joy

Life puts us to harsh tests - problems we’ve never thought of. So what? All of these are small compared to the sacrifice our Lord made for our salvation. He allows our struggle, but after a small…
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Two words that bring the man closer to God

This short prayer only has three words but is so strong that destroys all evil plans as soon as we say it. God left to us the prayer as one of the easiest way of salvation. In His holy glory, the…
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