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  755 (NEW YEAR'S DAY/ WISHES/ THOUGHTS/ PRAYER/ SANCTIFICATION)  Since we were for the last couple of days in the twilight of 2023, and also since we were in the dawn of the New Year 2024, all kinds of wishes were exchanged between us...  From our monastery, on the evening

  754 (CHRIST-ANTICHRIST/ VIRTUE-PASSIONS/ GOOD-EVILTHOUGHT (LOGISMOI)  In our previous Paternal Advice, on the Feast of Christmas, we ended with the following phrase:   “Let us not therefore, my brethren, waste our time in sin, but let us pursue goodness, virtue, and holiness; and let us henceforth have no further dealings

  752 (ANGER/ MEEKNESS/ TRIPARTITE SOUL)  The human soul is tripartite. The three parts are rationale, intentive (irascibility)and desire.  The rationale is that which gives us us the power to think, to pray, to compose speeches, to talk… And the principal part of the reason is the mind (nous).  The

  751 (CROSS/ SORROWS/ TRIALS/ STRENGTH)  «Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will

  749 (‘NOUS’-MIND/ BRAIN/ SOBRIETY/ PRAYER/ PHILOKALIA)   We should be aware, my brethren, that as man is a dual entity (comprising soul and body), we do have both ‘nous’ (mind) and brain. ‘Nous’ belongs to the soul and the brain to the body.  We should also be aware that

  748 (GOOD SELF-CONFIDENCE)  Today's weekly Paternal Advice is about GOOD SELF-CONFIDENCE.   (GOOD SELF-CONFIDENCE/SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE/ SPIRITUAL ZEAL/ EXERCISE/ THOUGHTS)  It is common for believers, when they read about the lives or teachings of saints and their physical or spiritual exploits, to record - with the collaboration of the evil

  747 (ETHOS/ NEIGHBOUR/ SINCERITY/ NATURALNESS/ DOWN TO EARTHNESS)   Try to be restrained in your relationships with people...; both in words and in behaviour.   Your careful and measured life will endear you to people, but most of all, to God!   Speak with simplicity, naturalness, honesty, in a

  746 (PRESENT TIME/ SANCTIFICATION)   Live in the present time and at the same time sanctify it! Unfortunately, most people live in the past and/or in the future... But the past has already gone and the future belongs to God.   So, what exclusively belongs to us is the

  745 (THE ALL-POWERFUL JESUS PRAYER)  - Who can say that problems do not fall upon him? - Who can say he has not hit a dead end? - Who can say that he does not have moments when he feels powerless to achieve something? - Who can say he