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A guarded heart

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Administrator

104. The heart which is constantly guarded, and is not allowed to receive the forms, images and fantasies of the dark and evil spirits, is conditioned by nature to give birth from within itself to thoughts filled with light. For … Continue reading →

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Before baptism

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Administrator

Before holy baptism, grace encourages the soul towards good from the outside, while Satan lurks in its depths, trying to block all the intellect’s ways of approach to the divine. But from the moment that we are reborn through baptism, … Continue reading →

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Two Gifts of Baptism

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Administrator

And St Diadochos writes: ‘Divine grace confers on us two gifts through the baptism of regeneration, one being infinitely superior to the other. The first gift is given to us at once, when grace renews us in the actual waters … Continue reading →

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Prayer is a vow

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Administrator

PRAYERS are those by which we offer or vow something to God, what the Greeks call evki, i.e., a vow…… We pray, when we renounce this world and promise that being dead to all worldly actions and the life of … Continue reading →

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The Three Virtues

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Administrator

17. The three most comprehensive virtues of the soul are prayer, silence and fasting. Thus you should refresh yourself with the contemplation of created realities when you relax from prayer; with conversation about the life of virtue when you relax … Continue reading →

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Paesius fought with his brother

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Administrator

‘Why have you let the brothers fight without saying anything to them?’ Abba Poemen said to him, Try and think that inwardly I was not here to see it.’
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Not to ask for other things

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Administrator

HOW WE OUGHT NOT TO ASK FOR OTHER THINGS, EXCEPT ONLY THOSE WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THE LIMITS OF THE LORD’S PRAYER YOU see then what is the method and form of prayer proposed to us by the Judge Himself, … Continue reading →

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A high degree of purity

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Administrator

60. Someone told me of an extraordinarily high degree of purity. He said: ‘A certain man (St. Nonnus bishop of Heliopolis) on seeing a beautiful body, thereupon glorified the Creator, and from that one look he was moved to the … Continue reading →

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Dislike of Self-display

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Administrator

seeing that he could speak eloquently with as much ease as others displayed when speaking in a normal way? But it was due to his long habit of silence and his dislike of self-display. Continue reading →

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How to conquer pride?

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Administrator

whatever you do, say not that you do it by your own labours, or with your own strength. Continue reading →

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