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The protection of heaven (Saint Nicholas Velimirovich)

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There’s a cataclysm worse than that of water: the inundation of the passions. When the passions begin to burn, when they start to smoke and blacken, when they exude their stench and spread it everywhere, where we will flee and who will save us? Only under the hand of God, only under His protection, in the refuge from on high. The cataclysm of the passions almost engulfed David, but he escaped and found refuge in the strong arm of the Lord Most High. He escaped the fire, the smoke and the stench of the passions consuming him and found shelter in heavenly protection.

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Zacchaeus, a Moving Example of Repentance (Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian)

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In today’s Gospel reading, we hear that Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town. There was a man there called Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus was a chief tax-collector by profession. This was a job identified in people’s minds with deceit, theft and lies. At that time, the chief tax-collectors were reliable servants of the Roman state. In the pursuance of their duty of ensuring that taxes were paid, they managed to enrich themselves in a number of permissible and impermissible ways, at the expense of Jews who were poor. By this method, Zacchaeus became rich and acquired a great many material goods. He wasn’t a person for whom other people felt admiration, love and respect. He was someone who exploited his ...

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