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He’s with us (Saint Theophan the Recluse)

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When you have dealings with other people and you’re taking care of life’s necessities, try, at the same time, to think of God and to have the feeling that He’s with you and directing you in accordance with His holy will. Then you won’t be distracted from your inner task. Distraction is the first victory of the devil. Try to free yourself from everything your heart’s captive to and every distraction from your inner task. There’s only one way. Keep your prayer fixed on the Lord and the feeling of His presence. Saint Theophan the Recluse

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Elder Ephraim of Arizona: On Slander & Condemnation (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Slander is a great evil. Just as the little rudder steers the whole ship wherever it wants, likewise the tongue leads a person either to good or to evil. The holy fathers greatly censure judging other people’s sins, faults, or evil habits. When we judge our brother, we condemn ourselves to a great sin. But when we cover our brother, God will also protect us from great sins. When we expose our brother, we drive the grace of God away from us and He permits us to fall into the same sins so that we learn that we are all weak and that the grace of God supports us. Whoever guards his tongue guards his soul from great sins and ...

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The Tension of Hesychia (Stillness) (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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The period we are now going through is characterised by the silent expectation of the greatest event under the sun, the coming in the Flesh of the Saviour God on earth. All the great events of God’s dealings with man, which are recorded in sacred history, were consequences of the holy and prolonged stillness of the people of God in His presence.  From the beginning of creation, the Holy Spirit hovered in silence over the void of nothingness and all of a sudden ‘hatched’ the whole creation.  Jacob wrestled the whole night in prayer so as to take hold of the blessing of God before facing his beastly brother Esau.  In the desert, Moses and the Israelites kept silence for forty ...

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