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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 commandments and you shall save your soul.

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?”

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 Christ, have mercy on me!” because it sanctifies the man and the place where it is said.

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 it and cast out the anger from your soul.

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.

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.”

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 which cometh out of the mouth”. Because what comes out, comes from the heart. From the heart come adulteries, crimes, pride, insults. As in hell, they come out of our heart, and when they do, we are tempted from the inside.

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 suffered and prayed for all, I understood that truly, Christ suffers with us.

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.

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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