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Limit it (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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Don’t you dare scorn people because they’re sinners. And don’t be vindictive, because that will only worsen their wounds. Far better to advise them in such a way that they can either cease their wickedness or at least try and keep it within bounds.

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Luke the Evangelist, a scientist and artist Saint (W. J. Lillie)

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Saint Luke the Evangelist came from Antioch the Great in Syria, was a doctor by profession and an excellent artist. At the time of the Emperor Claudius, he was in Thebes, Boeotia, practising medicine. It was here that he met Saint Paul and, after he had come to believe in Christ he abandoned idolatry, the folly of his ancestors. He also ceased to be concerned with medicine, that is healing bodies, and dedicated himself to preaching the Gospel, in order to bring souls onto the path of salvation and redemption. Apart from oral preaching, Saint Luke also wrote, at Saint Paul’s dictation, the Gospel which bears his name, which he sent to some high official called Theophilos, who also believed in Christ. ...

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Evangelist Luke, “the Beloved Physician” (Archbishop Lazar Puhalo)

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It has become a commonplace of for critics to suggest doubts about the authorship of Luke’s Gospel and the Book of Acts. Such doubts are, however, clearly unfounded. The evidence is conclusive that both treatises were written by a physician, and Luke was “the beloved physician” (Col. 4:14 ) who wrote them. Both books demonstrate a knowledge of medicine and  in both there are clear signs of medical diction.      It is Luke’s Gospel that gives us a clear picture of Christ as the Divine physician, and redemption as a healing process. The reign (“kingdom”) of God is proclaimed through the healing of the divisions and wounds in the fallen human nature. The human person is treated as a “whole being,” ...

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Obedience as the Path to Freedom (2) (Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †)

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Now a new generation in born with Jesus Christ as its spiritual founder. The purpose of this generation is to give its freedom to God through obedience, and, moreover, obedience not due to coercion or obligation but to love. ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?’ (Rom. 8, 35). Saint Paul submits to whatever happens, so that he won’t be separated from the love of Christ. This shows that the essence of obedience is love. Within this new, grace-filled state, the children of obedience and love attain the boundaries of true freedom. Freedom from egotism, from the passions, from fear, from the devil, ...

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