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Translation of the Relics of Saint Efraim the New

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Saint Efraim, whose secular name was Konstantinos Morfis, was born in Trikala, on 14 September 1384 in an idyllic place near the River Lithaios. He lost his father at a young age and he and his seven siblings were brought up, with God’s help, by his mother. At the age of 14, in order to escape enforced conversion to Islam and enlistment in the corps of Janissaries, he entered the then flourishing Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God on the Mountain of the Spotless in Attica. Saint Efraim followed Christ with fervent zeal and stood out for the luminosity of his life and his ascetic efforts in the monastery, in the neighborhood of ...

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A painful feeling (Saint Maximos the Confessor)

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The wrath of God is a painful feeling for those who are being educated by Him. It hurts when we’re visited by unwelcome pain, through which God often brings a mind puffed up with its own virtue and knowledge to mortification and humility. In this way He allows the mind to become aware of itself and its feebleness. When this happens, people discard any sense of vain pride they’ve been harboring in their heart. The wrath of God is the cessation of the provision of divine gifts to any mind that elevates itself to the heights and boasts of the good things it has given to God as if these were its own.

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The Transfiguration of Time (Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis)

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a) In every age, people want to measure, monitor and confer value on time, and, if at all possible, to surpass its limits. This can be seen from the monuments of world civilization, as well as from some of the notions which have been expressed regarding them. For the peoples outside the Bible and in secular religions, mythological views have developed on the sacredness and recycling properties of time. And so the concept arose that time recycles itself. This was the view that dominated Ancient Greek thought. Source:/www.digital-camera.gr/ b) In the pre-Christian period a variety of festal cycles arose. The first of each month, the first day of the year, the equinoctes, the solstices, and other important events were grounds for celebration. In ...

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