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Charity lifts the Prayer (Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos)

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If you want to pray, you have to become a charitable person. Charitable in every sense of the word… When you say a good word to somebody else or you offer something or give alms, then this action moves your soul to prayer. It’s well-established that when charitable people stands in prayer, their prayer goes up to God and is accepted. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol

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Millennialists and the Precious Cross of the Lord (Protopresbyter Vasileios Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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For all Christians, the Lord’s precious Cross is a manifestation of God’s unfailing love for His creation, (Jn. 3, 14-15; 12, 32-33; Col. 1, 20). It is the boast of Christ’s ordeal (Gal. 6, 4) and the invincible weapon against diabolical attacks. With his characteristic clarity, Saint John the Damascan declares that: ‘Every act and miraculous enterprise of Christ is mighty, and divine and wonderful, but the most wonderful of all is His Precious Cross’ (Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 4, 11, PG, 94, 1128D). And Fotios the Great adds: ‘Christ’s Cross is a trophy raised against the devil; and is the most glorious of all trophies’ (Amfilochia, Question 24, 9, PG 101, 185 D). But the enemies of Christ’s Cross ...

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They don’t know this (Elder Tadej Vitovničk)

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Parents should teach their children absolute obedience before they’re five years old. When a parent says something, the answer should be: ‘Yes, of course’. Unfortunately, parents today don’t know this. They teach their children exactly the opposite and, so, bring them up like that.

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Over the least thing (Elder Tadej Vitovničk)

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Parents blame their children for the slightest reason. It’s as though they don’t know how to talk to them calmly and gently. When it’s necessary for a parent to set boundaries for a child to obey, the child should feel that there’s love behind the strictness. It’s a great mistake to punish children at the moment they’re doing something wrong, because you won’t achieve anything by it.

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