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A sublime virtue (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

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Integrity is simplicity, innocence and the unsullied purity of the soul. It is a virtue of the highest value, because it is the fruit of Christian perfection. People who have integrity study God’s will day and night, what is good, pleasing and perfect, in order to pursue it. They examine their life and investigate the depths of their heart. They tolerate nothing within it, but remove every wicked desire, expel every passion.

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The Greatest Failure of Modernism (Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.)

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George Orwell’s dictum, expressed in his novel Animal Farm, that ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’ is both proverbial and perennially true. In this allegorical and political novella, the animals on a farm decide to revolt against their boss, a man. Once they’re free of human domination, however, they realize that their new leader, a stout pig called Napoleon, has seized power and has become a worse tyrant than the previous boss. Their new boss was very quickly corrupted by power, then, and imposed an even harsher slavery on the other animals, since he considered himself and his collaborators superior to them. Hence the characteristic phrase ‘All animals are equal but some animals (obviously those ...

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