Κατηγορία

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In the end, we’re all the same (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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Love everyone, indiscriminately. Don’t think about whether they’re weak or sinful. Don’t think about sin, but about where people come from, which is the image of God Himself. Don’t get upset over the weaknesses of others, their badness, pride, envy, avarice or gluttony. You yourself aren’t without sins. In the end, if we’re talking about sin, everybody’s in the same boat.

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‘This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is a fruit of Divine indignation’ (Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery)

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This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is a fruit of Divine indignation, as man is doing not what is natural, what is reasonable, but what is absurd and abnormal. Imagine how dismayed the Holy Spirit is, and how God the Father, again in His paternal role – because we should never forget that any tribulation allowed by God is not as executioner, or as an avenger, but allowed as a didactic motivated by love, precisely in order to bring man – the wanderer, the obscured – to bring him, through affliction and misfortune, through this lesson, closer to Him; and for him (man) to comprehend, not through the study ...

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