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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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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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Do not spend the Day without Prayer, for You Will Be Vulnerable

Do not leave your mind free so that it be kept busy with prayer or contemplation because otherwise, the enemy uses all his power in order to destroy your watchfulness. Say this prayer: “Lord Jesus…
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Don’t Think Highly of Yourself

If you are fought by anger, maybe because you were insulted by someone who challenged you to insult back even more fiercely than they did, look down to the ground and remember you were fashioned of…
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Calling the Name of Jesus Is Life Changing

When we pray, God does not only ask from us to be vigilant over our body but also to watch over prayer.
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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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God Suffers With Those Who Suffer

When I was in prison and I saw people who died in prayer, people who were suffering and prayed for those who made them suffer, people who were in prison together with their children and their parents…
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How Far Goes the Care of Parents for their Children?

Speak to the children as if they were adults but adapt your word to their level of understanding.
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God Accepts Our Prayers Only If They Help Us

He throws away useless requests, and the ones in truth and Spirit, which are good and liked by God, He arranges them in a beautiful bouquet and puts them on His altar, in front of His throne.
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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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How do we manage the fear of death?

Every true prayer is a fight with the death and a denial of it. Every true prayer is a fight for life and an admission of it.
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In case of illness one needs both medication and prayer

‘I, a poor hermit, grew old in the wilderness and I wanted to become healthy again only by faith. But now I’ve learned that there is need for both medicine and Grace.’
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Walking in Church is walking in Heaven

Walking in church with a pure heart will bring you salvation. 
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Spiritual peace – why some have it and others don’t

Money, fortune and all pleasure cannot give you peace and true joy, because they don’t offer anything to the soul. The peace of the soul can be brought only by its Creator. The true peace can be…
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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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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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Please God, watch my mouth!

Learn how to keep quiet even when it’s not bad to talk just to get used to this.
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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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Learn how not to judge your neighbour

Take the example of the Almighty God, who forgave the sins of so many murderers and enemies. 
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