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Всемирный День охраны окружающей среды: Православие учит уважению и воспевает творение Господа

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Репортаж Натальи Дандолу Всемирный День охраны окружающей среды ежегодно отмечается 5 июня и является основным мероприятием ООН с 1972 года...

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Sin’s in fashion now (Saint Paisios the Athonite)

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Elder, did you tell anybody that war’s coming? That’s what we’ve heard. Is it true? I haven’t said anything, but people say what they want. Even if I knew something, who would I tell it to? It’s a barbaric thing, war, Elder. If people didn’t have this … ‘benign’ attitude as regards sin, they wouldn’t get as far as this barbaric thing. Even more barbaric is our moral turpitude. People are being destroyed, spiritually and bodily. Somebody told me: ‘They say Athens has become a jungle’, but nobody leaves. They call it a jungle but they all crowd in there together. What have people become? They’re like animals. You know what animals do? First, they go into the stable, and they produce dung ...

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Deliverance from Thoughts (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast) (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Many other people received miraculous  help from Elder Joseph. Father Prokopios, a disciple of harsh Papa-Nikiphoros, once was strongly tempted to abandon his elder. So Papa-Ephraim (who was also a disciple of Papa-Nikiphoros) advised him: “Go over to Elder Joseph, do a prostration at his grave, and you will feel relief from your thoughts.” Father Prokopios did as he said, and he later described what had happened as follows: When I set off from Katounakia, a fragrance enveloped me. When I reached Geronda’s grave, I did a prostration. I told him my thought, prayed, and then returned to Katounakia. On my way back, the same fragrance surrounded me. When I entered my cell that fragrance was gone, but the temptation also disappeared. I was at ...

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East and West (Saint Nicholas Velimirovich)

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The West is in the throes of turmoil while the East sits in resignation and submission to fate. The West is continually feasting on the Tree of Knowledge and increasingly feels a hunger for knowledge. The East is seated under the Tree of Life but can’t reach the fruit. The West has a mania for organization. The East has a mania for the organism. The West is ceaselessly arranging external things, while its inner values are disappearing one after the other. The East ceaselessly cultivates its inner value, while the external ones are falling and being lost. The West is building monstrous Towers of Babel, but since these towers are built from unhewn stone, they tend to lean to one side and quickly collapse. ...

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