Κατηγορία

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An ever-flowing torrent (Saint John Maximovich)

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If we turn our attention to our mind, we’ll see a torrent of successive thoughts and ideas. This torrent is unrelenting, it tumbles quickly in every direction and at every moment- at home, in church, at work, when we’re reading, when we’re talking. Saint Theophan the Recluse writes that we usually call it ‘thought’, but in reality it’s a turbulence within the mind, a scattering, a lack of concentration and attention.

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The Holy Apostle Andrew († Dionysios, Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani)

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Today the Church celebrates and honors the sacred memory of the holy Αpostle Andrew, the First-called. Saint Andrew was from Bethsaida in Galilee, a small town on the shores of Lake Gennesaret. He was the son of Jonah and the brother of Simon, whom Jesus Christ later re-named Peter. Andrew was first a disciple of John the Baptist and is called the First-Called because he was the first to be invited by Christ to the ranks of the apostles. Like his father and brother, he was a fisherman. He heard John the Baptist pointing out Christ and saying: ‘Behold the Lamb of God’. Andrew and another disciple approached Christ , Who turned to them and asked: ‘What do you want?’ ...

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