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How to Choose the Name of Your Child

Talking about names, I think that from the first hour after we have given a name to our child we should give him also the zeal of virtue.
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Which Are the Paths Leading to the Kingdom of Heaven?

Starting from different actions, different places, we heed to reach a common shelter: the Kingdom of Heaven.
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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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You Should Fast with Discernment

Fasting is an adjustment of our life, as the water boiling in a pot. If the pot is empty, you add more water so that it does not crack from the intensity of the fire, and if it is full, you take off…
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Byzantine Music Heals Depression

Byzantine music is very easy when the soul loves it. Great is the peace that it brings to the soul. The one who knows music and is humble has the Grace of God. He is ready to be angry but he fears…
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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.
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Love Declaration to Your Wife

Be kind with everybody but especially with your wife. Avoid considering whether her complaints are true or not. Care only about one thing: avoid making her sad, maintain peace in your home so that…
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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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When Your Soul Is Full but Your Life Is Hollow

Do not worry, go on with the improvement of yourself and pray as much as possible to our Lord Jesus Christ. Do not be cheap with anyone in showing them your love – one of the most important things…
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We Love Each Other Because Together We Bloom

Do not be scared! True love has nothing to do with this. We are not loved for our qualities and hated for our flaws but for how we “manage” them. Our talents are our qualities and flaws.
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Seek God in Your Heart, Not outside of It

Seek God every day in your heart, not outside of it. But in order to find God, be humble, because He despises the proud ones and loves those humble in their heart.
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People That Never Die

I find the expression “dead man” unsuitable.
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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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When we chat, it is not just the time that we are losing

Wisdom lies not in the fact of not speaking, but in that of knowing when to talk. In the science of knowing to be silent and to speak!
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The two types of saving love

When a man doesn’t have longsuffering, kindness, this indicates that it does not have love inside him. Again, when he is not able to bear for long, has no kindness or generosity in all aspects he is…
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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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God’s grace and not our virtues will save us

You’d better search our Lord’s mercy and not reward for our struggle. Thus, you will get to salvation faster than the unwise strugglers.
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Learn how not to judge your neighbour

Take the example of the Almighty God, who forgave the sins of so many murderers and enemies. 
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Admitting our shortcomings, our prayer is filled with honesty

Let’s make the effort of using our shortcomings in order to acquire the humble reasoning, because this is the enemy of pride that we don’t even take in consideration ourselves. You worry because you…
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Prepare your soul for eternity, don’t leave it for tomorrow

Sit and wonder whether you loved justice and hated transgression as something ugly, pointless, that keeps you away from God and leads you into perdition.
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