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It’s genuine and true (Elder Filotheos Zervakos)

Κατηγορίες: In English

The attribute of true repentance is profound awareness, contrition, and sorrow in the heart which mourns not because it will go to hell but because it has saddened and angered through sin such a kindly and affectionate God and Father. It’s sighing, compunction, prayers, fasts, vigils, and tears. This repentance is genuine, true and beneficial.

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Repent now, before Death (Saint Nicholas Velimirovich)

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Repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of the Judgment. Repent before death, and, because you don’t know the time of your death, repent today, this instant and don’t repeat your sin. In one of his prayers, Saint Efraim the Syrian says: Before the wheel of time stops turning in my life, have mercy upon me. Before the wind of death blows and sickness, death’s herald, makes its appearance in my body, have mercy upon me. Before the majestic sun in the heavens becomes darkness for me, have mercy upon me; and may Your light shine on me from above and drive out the gloomy darkness from my mind. Before the earth returns to the earth and decays, before ...

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