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The most wretched (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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The more cantankerous, wicked and treacherous people are, the more unhappy they feel. The weaker their faith and the more inadequate their love, the less strong and competent they feel. Those who don’t believe and who hate their neighbor are the most miserable of people.

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The Bread of Life (Matth. 14, 14-22) (Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.)

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Feeding the hungry people in Palestine was a Messianic sign: someone who gave food to the multitudes, especially in a supernatural way could not be other than the awaited Messiah. This is why, at the moment of temptation after His baptism, Satan says to Christ: ‘If you’re the Son of God, make these rocks into loaves of bread’ (Matth. 4, 3; Luke 3-4), only to be given the answer that people don’t live by bread alone, but by every word which comes from the mouth of God. And yet, when He Himself judged the best moment to have arrived, He performed the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fed five thousand people. This event is related by all the ...

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Sound footing (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

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Restraint is a great force and imperishable riches. It’s the foundation of all the virtues and is the first to prepare souls in the exercise of them. It is the guide of prudence, undermines the passions of the body and calms impulses, cleansing the mind and pacifying the heart.

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