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15 Δεκεμβρίου 2019
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Children and Grace (Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery)

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Even little children are able to sense the Grace of the Holy Spirit. This is why we notice in some saints that when they were children they didn’t much care for games, as their contemporaries did. Rather, they stood out through their introversion and seriousness, something of the outlook of an Elder. This was the case in the life of Saint Athanasios the Athonite, and also in that of Elder Sophrony, who fell asleep in the Lord in 1993. When he was still in his infancy he was visited by the divine light, uncreated and immaterial. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi

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15 Δεκεμβρίου 2019
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Love Never Fails (Fr. Andreas Agathokleous)

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It can be readily understood that, when we get to know a person and our hearts combine, we are enthused at this and overjoyed. It’s the practical implementation of our reason for being, which consists in the image with which God has endowed us. This means that we can unite among ourselves in the same manner as the Triune God, Who is a communion of Persons, which is why ‘He is love’. On the other hand, when hearts grow cold and there’s no communication, we experience sadness and there’s no enthusiasm. And yet there is another phenomenon which is far from unusual: no matter how taken we are with another person, a close relationship them, including a great deal of communication ...

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14 Δεκεμβρίου 2019
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The Achievement of Faith (11th Sunday of Luke- of the Forefathers) (Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi)

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The dismissal hymn for the feast of the Holy Forefathers, says: ‘You justified the forefathers in faith, and through them betrothed Yourself, in advance, to the Church taken from out of the Gentiles’. These words, if you look at them carefully, are full of profound meaning. The Forefathers were justified, as being the foundation of the Church and as making manifest the cause of the relationship between God and us. Who were the forefathers of God? Pagans, of course. Everybody was pagan then. After the fall, people lost their way and followed their own path. From these, God chose a few and called upon them to believe in Him and to follow Him. And they were convinced. Through faith they ...

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14 Δεκεμβρίου 2019
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Good investments (Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos)

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You give what God’s given you. If God wants, He will take it all away from you in a couple of minutes. What God’s given to you, in His providence, you pass it on. It’s not yours; God gave it to you; and you won’t take it with you. You’re managing it, you can’t have it with you in eternity. So make sure you make good investments. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol

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14 Δεκεμβρίου 2019
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How Saint Ieronymos Disarmed a Potential Murderer

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The Elder (Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis) related a story of something that happened to him at that time (about 1928, when he was still Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras): When I was in Thessaloniki the father of one of my spiritual children was moved by action of the devil and took it badly that his son wanted the follow the path of God. The man considered that I was responsible and decided to kill me. As I was going down a sloping street, I was warned not to continue, because I would be killed. But I said: ‘If that’s God’s will, so be it’. And, indeed, I saw the man who had threatened me aiming and shouting at me. I stopped ...

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