Spiritual father
 

How Can I Love God more than my Child?

In other words, here we find the palpable proof of how much we love God – by loving our brothers! But mind that this love for our brothers (children, parents, husband or wife) does not reach the level of idolatry! What does idolatry mean? To put the ones whom you love above everything, above God. God should always be on the first place.

Our Egoism Determines Us to Ignore our Spiritual Father

How can we advance from a spiritual point of view when we despise our spiritual father, the delegate of Christ? When we trust only in our egoism?

Haste to Your Spiritual Father and You Will Win the Heaven

God bestowed us the Gospel and wishes that we follow its word, but He also teaches us through His grace.

Hiding Your Sins in Confession Doubles Them

Every time you hide a sin that you carry it for many years, but you still have confessed and received communion in this time, the reality is that your sins are multiplied.

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.

What Is True Repentance?

The repentance of those who think that through a day of fast they will redeem the sin of their repeated intoxication with food and alcohol will be in vain!

If you don’t know the will of God seek for yourself a good spiritual father!

Any Christian has the right of choosing his own spiritual father, he doesn’t have to go to the priest who baptised him, or the parish priest or the institution to which he belongs. Ce can choose whoever he wants or he trusts.

The canon set by your spiritual father is not a punishment but a treatment

The passions nurtured for years needs to be surmounted through tears and sufferance, through a constant, self-conscious and serious effort, otherwise the recovery of man and his religious life are just an illusion, and the suffering (disease, anxiety) will not be cured.

Put your future in the hands of God’s will!

Neither a stone can be moved nor can a leaf fall without the will of God.