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It’s a custom of his (Saint Isaac the Syrian)

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When you want to make a start on a good task, first prepare yourself against the temptations that’ll face you. Because when the enemy sees people starting something good, in fervent faith, it’s one of his habits to confound them with a variety of terrible temptations, in order to frighten them and separate them from their good intentions.

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The Neo-Pagans and Saint Paul (Protopresbyter Vasileios Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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A basic element among the various neo-pagan groupings is their hostile, dismissive attitude towards the person of the Lord, the Prophets, the Holy Apostles and the Holy Fathers, which is fanatical to the point of egregiousness. It is, however, Saint Paul who is singled out for incredible malice and fanaticism, with all sorts of fabrications being levelled against him. These are motivated by spite, involve the misrepresentation of the historical record and have become an obsession. We shall now proceed to mention a cross-section of the neo-pagan claims about Saint Paul and comment on them briefly to reveal in a clear manner the hatred of contemporary pagans towards the person and work of Saint Paul. Among the unfounded and defamatory claims of ...

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