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The ‘Fool’ and the Clever Ones (Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis †)

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It often happens that the internal beauty of the life of repentance and the staunch battle against sin and the passions are not immediately obvious. One such instance was the case of the nun Isidora, who lived in a monastery in Egypt and whose story we read in the Lavsaïkon (Lausaic History)*. Isidora loved humility and simplicity and tried to live in obscurity, as far as this was possible. Alas, as often happens, the more she tried to be humble, the more the reprobates of this world saw her as a tool of exploitation. They found her laughable. The magnificence of internal and spiritual beauty depends on the extent to which you’re able to bear up under the mockery of others. Of ...

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Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias (II) (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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Question: How is unity acquired in a community? Answer: We must have all the brethren in our heart, no one should be absent, even those that may wrong us. Unfortunately we do not allow ourselves to be transformed by grace, but we always justify ourselves and harbour resentment, and so there is no outcome, there is no victory. The real victory was in the Blood of the Lamb of God and we find real victory in forgiving from our hearts. That is why before Lent we are asked to forgive from our heart, because if we do not the labour of Lent is annulled. You can pray, you can cry, but the heart simply does not open. And we need the ...

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