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Good investments (Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos)

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You give what God’s given you. If God wants, He will take it all away from you in a couple of minutes. What God’s given to you, in His providence, you pass it on. It’s not yours; God gave it to you; and you won’t take it with you. You’re managing it, you can’t have it with you in eternity. So make sure you make good investments. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol

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How Saint Ieronymos Disarmed a Potential Murderer

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The Elder (Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis) related a story of something that happened to him at that time (about 1928, when he was still Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras): When I was in Thessaloniki the father of one of my spiritual children was moved by action of the devil and took it badly that his son wanted the follow the path of God. The man considered that I was responsible and decided to kill me. As I was going down a sloping street, I was warned not to continue, because I would be killed. But I said: ‘If that’s God’s will, so be it’. And, indeed, I saw the man who had threatened me aiming and shouting at me. I stopped ...

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Abundant life (Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery)

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‘I came that they might have life and have it abundantly’. Saint Gregory Palamas interprets ‘abundant life’ as the life of sanctity, our adoption by God through Grace. Those who keep God’s commandments live the virtuous life in accordance with His commandments. They receive Divine Grace from Him and this becomes their inalienable possession. They acquire the divine predicates: love, wisdom, the uncreated light, ontological autonomy, and immortality. All of this is nothing other than a life of sanctity. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi

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