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How Do We Feel When We Miss God?

What is the wise state of the heart, the Holy Spirit’s calling and the state of the man, of the son who loves his Father and can call His name and is ready for His Kingdom?
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How should you act with those who lie but accuse you of not trusting them?

Accept what they say without believing them, without judging them, without saying anything. Just pray “Lord have mercy, make her (him) understand that what he says is not true”. But do this without…
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If we do not hear ourselves during prayer, why do we ask God to hear us?

Those who speak words of prayer automatically and with their mind completely scattered won’t receive from God the gifts they ask. For, when they are asked what they prayed for, they do not remember…
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Prayer - Fight for Salvation

Our guardian angel is always saying to us “Pray and watch incessantly! Keep and fructify through prayer what you have conquered!”  In a moment of spiritual zeal you may embrace the height of…
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God appreciates diligence more than the result

Everything is appreciated by God in his divine way, not in a humanly way, because God does not offer rewards for our acts but for the effort.
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Perseverance in prayer – the most useful medicine

Perseverance in sincere prayer is indeed useful and very powerful. If we had prayed to God and he listened, we should thank Him.
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Saint Paraskevi, thank you for everything!

I am grateful to her for every time she hastened to help me when I cried my trouble before her Holy relics.
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God wants us to talk to Him as much as possible

We as Christians should always pray to God, anytime, anywhere. And even if our wishes are fulfilled or not, we should still thank Him. Sometimes He listens, sometimes He doesn’t, because He knows…
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If you make silence in your soul, you will hear the answer to your prayer

Jesus Christ himself, in order to show us the use and need of a silent life, from time to time he let aside public sermon and went to silent places, so that he find peace and pray.
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Don’t work without prayer!

There’s no other treasure more honest than prayer in our lives. This is why you should never let it aside, but as our Lord said, pray so that our struggle will not be in vain.
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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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How should we behave towards those who have fallen from faith?

Be careful so that you don’t hate those who don’t believe. Pray to God for them. You will be a missionary. Your first rule should be: pray to God for those who have fallen from faith. The grace of…
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Love is present in the smallest things

Love is present in all the bodily gestures, when, serving God the body is filled with spiritual fruits, when man raises his hands towards God for charity and partaking, when he directs his steps…
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You don’t get to heaven on your own but living in communion

Loneliness isolates you, makes you helpless, and prevents your spirit to enjoy the good things of this world, especially those of the spiritual world, while life in community saves you from many…
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Pray together for a tight knit family!

When your children will say “Holy God” they will hear the chants of the angels, who were once seen by a child in Constantinople in the time of the patriarch Proclus. When they will read “It is truly…
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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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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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God appreciates more the effort than the result

There all appreciated by God in His divine way – not a human one – for God rewards your struggle and not the deed and its result.
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Perseverance in prayer – the most useful treatment

Perseverance in the prayer in truth and spirit is very useful and has a great power. If we prayed and God listened, we should be grateful to Him.
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Let’s be grateful both for blessings and for trials

Let’s be grateful for the blessings given by God, and also for the evils the He allowed in our life. Why? For these ones are helpful, too.
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