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Prayer and good state
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
28 August 2018
Say the prayer, say the Jesus prayer and that’ll bring you into such a good state that however much you think about it, you can’t think about it.
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The ashes and the spark
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
27 August 2018
The passions cover Divine Grace, just as ash covers the spark.
With asceticism and prayer, however, the heart is cleansed of the passions, the spark of divine grace is rekindled and the faithful fee...
The Grace and the sea of life
Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
26 August 2018
We find ourselves on the sea of life – sometimes it’s a storm, other times it’s a mill-pond.
God’s Grace doesn't desert us.
If things were otherwise, we’d never realize how Grace sustains us.
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Hang on
Saint Paisios the Athonite
25 August 2018
– Father, how can I be saved?
– Hang on to Our Lady’s skirt, in complete confidence, such as a little child has in its mother.
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The soul is like a tank of water
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
24 August 2018
Our soul’s like a tank full of water. If you pour water from it onto flowers, that is, the virtues, the part of goodness, you’ll feel real joy, and your sins, the thorns, will atrophy.
But if you pou...
Away from the old and unredeemed
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
23 August 2018
When marriage becomes a ‘sacrament’ it removes the couple and their physical marriage away from the old world, unredeemed and without God, the world of egotism of decay and death and places them in th...
Humility solves many issues
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
22 August 2018
All the bad sentiments, insecurity, despair, frustration that attempt to take over the soul, flee away if you’re humble.
If you don’t have humility, if you’re an egotist, you don’t want your will to ...
