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The Healing, near Gadara, of the Man Possessed (Saint Gregory Palamas)

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Today’s Gospel tells us that, when Jesus reached land, He met a man from the city who had long had demons within him. The man had no clothes on and didn’t live in a house, but among the tombs. It says that ‘He reached the land’ to show that He’d arrived by ship, since the storm had subsided and the sea had become calm, at His rebuke. When He’d left Galilee by ship with His disciples, as the Evangelist tells us earlier, He’d indicated He wanted to go to the opposite shore. It’s clear from this that He’d foreseen what would happen and had gone as unbidden help to the man who’d been tormented so harshly and for so many ...

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Don’t interfere (Elder Cleopa Ilie)

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In all things, we have to watch what we say and how we say it. We should always concentrate on how to please God and never want anything more than we want Him. We shouldn’t be hasty in judging the words and deeds of others and we shouldn’t meddle in affairs that don’t concern us.

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Spiritual Temptation (Fr. Andreas Agathokleous)

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Those who are serious about their spiritual progress and wish to advance their relationship with Christ, attempting to keep His commandments out of love for Him, will have noticed that, no sooner did they make this decision than a variety of temptations began to afflict them. Some of these would have been obvious, others more subtle, some from the left and some from the right, some corporeal and others spiritual. The aim of all of them, however, would have been the same: to obstruct these spritual people in their chosen path, to discourage them and to bring them sorrow. Was there ever a saint who wasn’t tempted? Anyone whom temptation left untempted? If Christ Himself, as God and human, was tempted, ...

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