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Wage Increase (Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos)

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It’s a common phenomenon all over the world that people try, by any means they can, to increase their share of wealth. Some are moved by a sense of justice, others are motivated by their own greed, some want to create equal social conditions, others struggle against those whom they deem to be ‘privileged’, while yet others want to manipulate the masses in order to exploit them later for their own purposes. These latter talk about ‘the justice of the struggle’, they stir up people’s feelings, clash with each other in an attempt to acquire and protect economic rights and perks, rarely for everyone, but usually for those defined as ‘one of us’, ‘ours’, ‘fighters’, ‘useful’ and so on. It is, ...

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Humility is the most attractive virtue (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Angels in heaven, in glory and hymns. People in their joys and their palaces. God the Creator in a cave, in a manger, as if He were the poorest of the poor. What humility on the part of Jesus. You should acquire this humility, my children. Humility is the most attractive of the virtues, a robe woven from gold thread. Blessed are they who clothe themselves in it; they’ll be given inexpressible spiritual comeliness. Pride and egotism, on the other hand, are the vilest of the passions.

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Indifference to those who are Sinning is a Sin in Itself (Christos Karadimos)

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Should we not care about those who are sinning? The answer given by Saint Basil the Great is negative, since he says that we shouldn’t be indifferent to our fellow human beings who are sinning. He bases his opinion on Holy Scripture. Saint Basil says that the Lord has given a clear commandment, both in the Old and New testaments regarding this matter. Indeed, in Leviticus, the Lord commands: ‘Rebuke your neighbor frankly, so that you do not share in their guilt’ (19, 17). And, again, in the Gospel, the Lord commands: If your relative sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they ...

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