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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.

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!

Having God near, Everything Goes Easy and Well

God “takes care of you” and all you necessities. He takes care of you as one of His little children. He takes in His custody your sorrows and difficulties. Everything goes easy and well.

When You Find Christ, Nothing Can Distance You from Him

When you have truly found God, when you have found the sweetness and power of a life standing at His feet, then nothing and nobody can distance you from Him.

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.

Through Sorrows We Achieve Salvation

Endure with patience all illness and sorrow that were bestowed upon you, so that you may remain on the right path.

Parents and Spiritual Fathers Are to Teach the Child How to Pray

Prayer is necessary for all people in order to achieve their salvation and eternal happiness. Thus Christians need to learn how to pray to God since their infancy.

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 in peace, according to thy word” (Luke 2:29).

We Have Eaten But Have We Fed Ourselves?

The spiritual nurture is prayer, “our daily bread” of the soul. But, Jesus Christ has offered Himself as the food of our life and salvation of our soul by partaking with His Body and Blood.

Have a Conversation with Your Soul Every Morning and Evening

Although virtues are considered qualities of the soul, they are also a means for the strengthening of our body. However, passions are of a different nature: some are of the soul, because they are only loved by the soul and others are of the body, because they are the delight of the body. In other words, both in the first and second category the soul and the body are not aware of the other’s presence.

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