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The heart means life (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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In education, it’s very dangerous for us to prioritize only the development of the intellect and knowledge and to ignore the heart. We must concentrate on the heart above all else, because the heart is life, but life which has been corroded by sin. Society is corrupt precisely because it doesn’t have Christian education.

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The Miraculous Appearance of the Archdeacon, Saint Stephen, in Karyes (Monk Lazaros Dionysiatis)

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Our holy Abbot, Archimandrite Gavriil, had gone to Karyes for the Double Assembly which had been called by the Holy Community, and on his return told us about the appearance of the Holy First-Martyr Stephen, which occurred in the chapel in our representative’s house (konaki). On the previous Sunday, 14 July, the feast of our Holy Father Saint Nikodimos the Athonite, the Monastery’s representative invited the very devout Hieromonk Fr. Nikostratos to celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the konaki. He was also the representative of his own Monastery, the venerable Russian Monastery of Saint Panteleïmon. The wonder-working icon of Saint Stephen which is in the chapel of the same name in the konaki of the Monastery of Dionysiou in Karyes, on ...

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