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Love with all your heart and you will know what true joy is!

When you think this way, when you become one with this idea, it is impossible for you not to love God and not to be happy to abide the commandments, as you can. The same is with the love of your…
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You are healthy, young and strong – but don’t count on this

Don’t count on the fact that you are healthy, beautiful, rich or young! These are shadows and dreams. Our life is short. Very, very short. We need to live here for the eternal life. 
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Show your wife plenty of love

 “I chose you because I like your behaviour, cleverness, wisdom, kindness and purity. Because I have learned to undervalue fortune as something fruitless.”
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In church we pray better than in any other place

In church we will find even more peace and redeeming joy and there we prepare our soul to receive worthily, as much as we can the Holy Communion.
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Oh, Heaven, how beautiful you are!

What does Heaven represent? It is a place with unfaded flowers, filled with spiritual fragrances, it is the angels’ joy, the Easter life, divine love, ceaseless prayer raised to God and an eternal…
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The fulfilment of all wishes

Has something happened as you wanted, be grateful; if not, don’t be sad for nothing is eternal here and all things are temporal in this world. One care alone you are to have, don’t be a stranger to…
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Without self-sacrifice there is no salvation

Usually, when it comes about himself, man is always unfair and changes the scale; he is more rightful towards himself, he chooses the better, the biggest, and the most beautiful part: he cries and…
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Celebration of Saint Parascheva of Iasi - 2015

Over 30.000 pilgrims attented the The Holy Liturgy that was officiated today by an assembly of 22 hierarcs, headed by Archbishop Damaskinos Anastasios of Jaffa and Arimathea. Over 30.000 souls became…
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How can we “win” the grace of God?

Do you know what it means to be serious? To be accomplished. Have faith in God and you will always be cheerful, happy and serious.
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Make your heart a house of God

He wants to make your house and heart ‘a house of God’ filled with grace and power, light, peace, joy, and true happiness. Oh brother, open the door for Him, open it at once, give him all the keys…
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First comes God and the man after!

You can know that you love God from the joy of serving to Him, the joy of following his commandments. You don’t resist to them and you take God into account!
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Oh, what a sweet support is our Lord!

All treasures, all pleasures of this world cannot offer the peace, serenity and joy that our Lord gives to those that put their lives into His hands.
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Don’t seek for reward and it will come on its own

Although others rightly consider themselves eagles, even if you have the power and the wings of an eagle as well, you should settle being a little merry lark flying upright heralding the dawn.
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