March 2013
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A Lament for Sin
St. Basil the Great
Weep over your sin: it is a spiritual ailment; it is death to your immortal soul; it deserves ceaseless, unending weeping and crying; let all tears flow for it, and sighing come forth without ceasing from the depths of your heart.
In profound humility I weep for all my sins, voluntary and involuntary, conscious and unconscious, covert and overt, great and little, committed by...
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January 2013
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December 2012
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There is no third option
simplyorthodox:
A man in this world must solve a problem: to be with Christ, or to be against Him. And every man decides this, whether he wants to or not. He will either be a lover of Christ or a fighter of Christ. There is no third option.
- St. Justing Popovich
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The person who loves spiritually...
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The person who loves spiritually, feels prayerful, that he can be found within God and his brother. He is saddened when his brother is not advancing well and prays for his progress. Whoever has Christian love never changes.
- Elder Amphilochios Makris
November 2012
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On the importance of the Nativity Fast
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…By our fasting we are reminded that this is not simply the birth of a baby, but God being united with man. It is the moment when the unchangeable is joined with the changeable, eternal life with mortal life, He who holds the universe in His hand and who created all comes in the flesh for our salvation.
- An excerpt from the “Nativity Fast” article
The most blessed of all...
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The most blessed of all people are those who exhibited the greatest repentance, with pain and inner contrition, and, in this way, extinguished the proud enemy. They humbled their unruly flesh with asceticism - subdued it to the spirit - and granted the greatest joy to Heaven with their repentance (their return to God).
- Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos
September 2012
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February 2012
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“For the mystery of human being does not solely rest in the desire to live, but...”
– By Fyodor Dostoevsky in the chapter entitled “The Grand Inquisitor,” from his book The Brothers Karamazov. The chapter focuses on the three temptations of Jesus Christ and tries to explain what ultimately it was that Christ rejected from the devil.
Anyone who is interested in learning...
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