Making Sense of Suffering.
Suffering is an indication of another Kingdom which we look to. If being Christian meant being “happy” in this life, we wouldn’t need...
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- Nov 22, 2022
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God, I'm Sick.
I leave my illness in Your Holy Hands, whenever You - Who love me so much - want to heal me, I will also want it then. I only ask Your...
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- Nov 18, 2022
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The Attentive Life.
If you wish, you can be a slave of the passions, and if you wish, you can remain free, and choose not to submit to their soul crushing...
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- Nov 7, 2022
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Hardships are Necessary.
We must be prepared to accept the will of God. The Lord permits all sorts of things to happen to us contrary to our will, for if we...
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- Nov 2, 2022
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Do be Still.
Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...
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- Oct 31, 2022
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Do not React.
Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...
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- Oct 24, 2022
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Anti-Anxiety.
The answer to our anxiety is not drugs, alcohol, tranquilizers or psychiatric treatment. The anxieties of modern life are only symptoms...
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- Oct 11, 2022
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Blind. Deaf. Dumb. Dead.
What's the point? Why this effort? Why the aggregating? The curating? The posting? Why publish Orthodox Wisdom for all who suffer?...
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- Oct 9, 2022
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The Work of Perfection.
The contemporary debate concerning physician-assisted suicide is predicated, from the traditional Christian standpoint, first, on a...
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- Sep 30, 2022
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"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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- Sep 23, 2022
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Death to the World.
No wonder then that it is hard to be a Christian. It is not hard, it is impossible. No one can knowingly accept a way of life which,...
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- Sep 20, 2022
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The Death of Fear.
Be at peace. Put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. Do not look forward in fear to those changes and struggles in life, rather...
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- Sep 2, 2022
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Illness and the Work of Perfection.
Even if we are bedridden, we are to continue the struggle against the passions, producing fruits worthy of repentance. This work of...
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- Aug 31, 2022
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God is Not Vindictive.
Another reason why human suffering is a mystery to an unbeliever is because his very idea of God is false. Father Seraphim (Rose) Modern...
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- Aug 19, 2022
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Candles Disperse Darkness.
One such candle was Romanian priest Fr. George Calciu. He and his family lived quietly until the communist government renewed its...
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- Aug 17, 2022
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Immortal Medicine.
In the Eucharist, the baptized person receives Christ Who, in His Body and Blood, gives Himself entirely, not just as man, but also as...
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- Aug 15, 2022
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He (still) Makes House Calls.
Christ visits us. He is with us. He is in us. He heals us. We pray in the Trisagion prayers, “Holy One visit and heal our infirmities...
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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 5, 2022
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Suffering as Gift.
But suffering, as the crowning of a man bearing his cross, gives birth in his heart to great Divine joy. As a mother grieves during the...
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