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Saint John Chrysostom on Marriage (Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos)

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‘Just as marriage is a haven, so it can also be a shipwreck. Not by its nature, but by the bad use some people have put it to’. These words of Saint John Chrysostom highlight truths which contemporary society doesn’t wish to see. ‘Marriage is a haven’. In a haven, ships are protected from the storms of the seas. In the same way, the couple, the husband and wife, are protected from the storms of life because they’re together. The instability of human relations, fear of loneliness, the lack of comfort when other people, work, financial woes or politics depress us, the stirring up of emotions, especially in an era of sensualism which drives people to seek pleasure but makes it ...

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The Church is the Inn where we Shelter from the Robbers of the Soul (Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian)

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To love your neighbor as yourself was a commandment of the Law of Moses for the Jews. But the critical point, around which there was much discussion, was who should be considered a neighbor. According to Jewish Law, the concept was often confused and limited. Some teachers of the Law even claimed it was illegal to help a gentile woman in labor, because another gentile would be born. To love your neighbor as yourself, means to love them as your own life. As Elder Sophrony, of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptists in Essex, wrote, it means that you should see the whole of mankind as if it were only one life, only one nature, with a great ...

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Gently (Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff)

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Offer the words of your prayer gently. Don’t let your mind wander all over the place. This is a narrow and rugged path for a mind that’s used to traveling freely all over the world, but it’s the path that leads to concentration. Those who have experienced the great benefits of concentration will always want to lead their mind on the narrow path that leads to it.

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