Author Archives: Administrator

On fire with the love of God

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Administrator

A fly will not go near a pot when it is on the fire, but once it has cooled the fly will alight on it Continue reading →

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Many kinds of fasting

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Administrator

There is one kind of fasting which is from habit, and another from desire, and another from compulsion… Continue reading →

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How should we spend our time

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Administrator

Our intellect often finds it hard to endure praying because of the straightness and concentration which this involves;… Continue reading →

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True Purity

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Administrator

Humility of soul helps more than everything else, however, and without it no one can overcome unchastity or any other sin. Continue reading →

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Withdrawal from the world

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Administrator

All who have willingly left the things of the world, have certainly done so either for the sake of the future Kingdom, or …. Continue reading →

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Like a pilot

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Administrator

A monk should consider the purpose of each text in Scripture…. Like a pilot steering a boat through the waves, …. guided by grace. Keeping his attention fixed within himself…. Continue reading →

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A Director, A Helper, A Physician

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Administrator

That is why those who have surrendered themselves to God deceive themselves if they suppose that they have no need of a director… Continue reading →

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About a robber who repented

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Administrator

That true physician replied: ‘For two reasons: firstly, in order to deliver the penitent himself from future shame by present shame; and it really did that, … Continue reading →

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Anger

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Administrator

Anyone who is harmed or injured and forgives has the nature of Christ. Anyone who does nobody any harm and therefore suffers no harm has the nature of Adam. But whoever harms others or injures them …… Continue reading →

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Blessed are they that have not seen

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Administrator

but faith is a grace which from what is indemonstrable conducts to what is universal and simple, what is neither with matter, nor matter, nor under matter. Continue reading →

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