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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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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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Faith Works only by True Love

Faith without love towards your neighbour is like the earth that absorbs the rain of the heaven but holds it in without allowing it to come outside as a spring. Faith without love is like a burning…
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What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture. They need to be taught from a young age…
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What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture.
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Trusting People - a Manifestation of Faith

Have the faith that you can trust man, your brother, wife, husband, friends and relatives. What a great thing it is to be able to trust people and most of all, God!
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How Can I Love God more than my Child?

In other words, here we find the palpable proof of how much we love God – by loving our brothers! But mind that this love for our brothers (children, parents, husband or wife) does not reach the…
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The Thought of God Helps Us Pass through any Challenge

Inspired by the longing towards God, man is able to confront all trials. If we will not allow the flame of our heart to quench, even when God withdraws His grace from us allowing us to taste the…
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There Is no Wiser Man than the Merciful Man

Those who are obsessed by material goods are always sad and worried because they fear to lose all of it and also their soul.
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The Greatest Miracle Lived by Man

Gracious faith transports us from the land of created world to that of uncreated world, being a bridge above the abyss between God and man. And if man shows such a faith, then he will certainly will…
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For the Mother of God, the Praise of People Is Not Inferior to that of Angels

What praise can we bring with our weak and sinful lips to the most honourable of all creations, praised more than angels and archangels, the most holy Theotokos, who became worthy to be the Mother of…
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In the End, Two Things Will Help Us

Church is our mother. Through Church we enter the world, the life and through it we leave this world and enter the eternal one.
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Letter to Your Heart

May I turn on the lights in your soul? I want to see all your wounds and cure them. I do not want to step on them and hurt you even more. It is cold in here, light the fire of love! Your heart is a…
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If You Love Your Child, manifest your love!

If you truly love your child, manifest your love and you shall be rewarded for it. Listen again the teaching of the Holy Apostle Paul: “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they…
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The Might of the People Who Fear God

Those who fear God are as a giant among dwarfs or as a lion roaring among dogs and foxes, entrusting their faith in the Lord.
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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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Who Has a Clean Conscience?

The person who has a clean conscience will pass in peace the verge of eternity – bodily death. This person will be able to say, as the Rightful Simeon did “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart…
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Be as the Bee

The bee does not collect honey from a single flower. This is also the case of the person who reads the books of the holy fathers.
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Let Us Take Care for One Another

A rightful person will never fight for his own benefit but for the life of his neighbour.
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People That Never Die

I find the expression “dead man” unsuitable.
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