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828 (FAITH/ SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE/ GREAT LENT/ RESURRECTION) My brethren, we must carry on with our struggle lying before us with faith! With faith we must go ahead with our struggle in order to get the celestial prize! We, Christians have and follow the Christian Faith! The Christian faith, not the

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827 (PRAYER/ MIND - ‘NOUS’/ FAITH) Try always during prayer (whether you are praying alone or in church) to think of nothing but the words of prayer. Just believe that everything you say is being fulfilled by the Benevolent God. Feel as though you are in another world, in another

826 (FALL/REPENTANCE/SORROW/JOY/ 'RESET') It is customary for our enemy the devil, after a fall (and in particular a fall into something which we decided not to do again), to beat us up with the hammer of sadness and disappointment. He disrupts our fighting spirit and does not let us get

825 (SIMPLICITY/ HUMILITY/ PURE HEART/ LOVE) Abba Poimen and Abba Anub had five more brothers; they were all biological brothers and lived together as monks in the wilderness. The youngest of all had a very simple heart and his behaviour made it difficult for the others; he could not understand

824 (DAILY ACCOUNT/ STRUGGLE/ CONSCIOUSNESS/ SALVATION) My brother, I can assure you that if you try to apply what you advise yourself to do in your evening account of the day, Christ - through His infinite condescension - will never ask for anything more and will save you and let

823 (EPIPHANY/ BAPTISM/ REGENERATION/ REBIRTH) Please allow me to add to our Paternal Advices a troparion of the office of the Feast of the Epiphany, which impressed me a lot and goes like that: «He who wears light like a garment, .... without fire he melts and purifies, and regenerates

: 822 (JUDGEMENT/ NEIGHBOUR/ LOVE/ KINDNESS/ WEAKNESSES) : Do you want not to criticize? Avoid any comments or involvement with other people. Experience will show you that even praising somebody is not far from condemnation... Also note this: Be indulgent to the other person's weakness and comfort him by doing

: 821 (CARNAL MATTERS/ GOOD INDIFFERENCE/ GOOD ANGER/ GOOD HATRED) : When an obscene imagination appears to you, for example a carnal memory of a person (of the other sex, that is) and, while you try to push it away, it persists and comes back, please do exactly what I

: 820 (SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE/ ABSTINENCE) : “Athletes exercise control in all things” (1 Cor. 9, 25), says Saint Paul. That is, everyone who fights exercises self-control in everything.. Learn, therefore, to have restraint and self-control, so that you may overcome the traps of the enemy and of your passions. Extremely