Wounded by Love.
I feel illness as the love of Christ. I often say to Him: ‘My Christ, Your love knows no limits!’ How I am alive is a miracle. (Offered...
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- Dec 28, 2022
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Death My Friend.
Terrible is the approach of death to people who are passionate, sinful and weak, who have not tried to live blamelessly in this vain...
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- Dec 15, 2022
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Memento mori.
Remember, O man, that thou art dust. And unto dust shalt thou return. Riches do not remain. Glory does not accompany one to the other...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Big Brothers.
Do not fear, for we have before us our big brothers - the angels - who fight together with us. December 7, 2019. Memory eternal! For...
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- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
Light as Cork.
Everyone has a cross to carry. Elder Ephraim of Katounakia Every single person has a cross to carry. Why? Since the leader of our...
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- Oct 26, 2022
- 4 min
Pain is Here. Where is God?
Is God absent or present? Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn? It’s a matter of how you look at it. Archimandrite Aimilianos of...
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- Oct 10, 2022
- 4 min
Sickness Can Save Us.
We benefit greatly from our illnesses, as long as we endure them without complaint and glorify God, asking for His mercy. Saint...
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- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
"You Don't Want to Suffer?"
Then don't expect to ascend. Whoever does not endure sufferings should not expect grace from Him. Elder Joseph the Hesychast When can...
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- Aug 10, 2022
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"Lord, where are You?"
Is God absent or present? Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn? It’s a matter of how you look at it. Elder Aimilianos of...
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- Aug 8, 2022
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Yes, Lord.
God never gives you a Cross without first weighing and measuring it very carefully to make sure that the Cross will result in your...
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
Grace and Medicines are Necessary.
I am just a poor ascetic, who has grown old in the wilderness, and I wanted to heal only through faith. But I, too, am learning that...
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- Jul 25, 2022
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The Angelic Life.
Oh, if man would only lift his mind above this earthly realm to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the inconceivable beauty of paradise where...
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- Jul 11, 2022
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Paradise Present.
The Lord gave us the Holy Spirit, and the man in whom the Holy Spirit lives feels that he has paradise within him. Saint Silouan the...
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- Jul 1, 2022
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On The Will of God
It is a great good to give oneself up to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul. No other thought can enter in, and the soul...
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- Jun 29, 2022
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Will The Soul Accept or Reject Suffering?
The soul has to make a choice, and the outcome will either break it into pieces or enable it to sail to its destination in God....
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- Jun 24, 2022
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Antidote for Anxiety. (part two)
It is impossible to escape tribulation in this world but the man who is given over to the will of God bears tribulation easily, seeing it...
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- Jun 22, 2022
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Antidote for Anxiety. (part one)
How are you to know if you are living according to the will of God? He who lives according to God's will has no cares. The soul given...
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- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
Leave it All to God.
Say, "My God, I leave my illness in Your holy Hands, and whenever You - Who love me so much - want to heal me, I will also want it then."...
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