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Know that All that You Have Received from God, Was Given as a Loan

Buy yourself rest with struggle, the unseen face of God with watchfulness, the delight of eternal goods through fasting and thirst. Keep in your head your mind and knowledge; in your eyes the look of…
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The Tender and Harsh Callings of God

Trials, sorrows, problems and other similar things – are also works of the Holy Spirit, meant to wake us up from the sleep of injustice. For God scolds the faithful people, from who He can fashion “…
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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.
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Father Cleopa, about the Biggest Concern on New Year

These are my thoughts for the New Year! Let us thank the Holy Trinity and Theotokos, our intercessor, because she made us worthy of living another year.
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“To See if We Match…” – As for Matching, God Will Match Us

But who can say they found the other? Under this aspect we do not match even with our brother, with whom we were raised and we developed in the same family.
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For the Mother of God, the Praise of People Is Not Inferior to that of Angels

What praise can we bring with our weak and sinful lips to the most honourable of all creations, praised more than angels and archangels, the most holy Theotokos, who became worthy to be the Mother of…
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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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Pray and You Will Find the Joy of Life

It is very good for Christians to pray incessantly, as God and the Apostle said “Pray without ceasing”, meaning all day and every minute
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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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Why are Some Good Deeds Useless?

When people restrain themselves from food but are gossiping and envy someone, it is considered a sin. What is the use of the bodily fasting if we ignore the spiritual fasting? What is the use of…
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What Happens With Those Who Do Not Pray?

People who do not pray have no power in the struggle against the temptations in life. They are like a soldier without weapons, as a bird without wings, a willow in the wind that does not seek God.
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Lack of Love Is the Cause of all Sorrows

People who love someone will not want to receive anything from their partner but will give him everything they have. And, certainly, we are happier this way than if we would be to receive something.…
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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…
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Love Covers Many Sins

God be praised through Jesus, the One Who is praised forever and ever.
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Good Deeds Without Humbleness Are of No Use!

Humbleness is as useful as the salt added in food, and can overcome the power of many sins. And if we do achieve it, we will become sons of God, allowing us to sit next to Him, even if we didn’t do…
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What Is the Use of so Much Pain?

When a doctor makes a surgical intervention and the patient, because of the pain, reacts and tears off all the bandages and hits the doctor, what will he say? That he didn’t do the surgery in order…
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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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Praying for Others Helps Us First

We shall pray and ask God help for our brethren but not as if we were some kind of saints who have the right to ask something.
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Do not Stay Away from Our Saviour’s Body and Blood

The most beautiful and sacred invitation is the one made by the priest: ‘With fear of God, faith, and Love, draw near!’ He doesn’t say ‘go away!’ We receive the Crucified and Resurrected Christ and…
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Three facts about man’s life and death

 Sin converts the living into dead; fornication converts the living into dead; abortion, curse, theft of all sorts, lack of faith, blasphemy, all this transforms the living people into death…
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