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Values and social life (2) (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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Self-validated human values are dangerous not only for our spiritual and religious life but also for the moral and social life, because they easily transform themselves into means of self-justification and distraction. This dual function of values is due to their impersonal and created nature. What is created is always relative; it is never absolute. Even less, of course, can that which is created forge anything absolute, except in the imagination. But even absolute values which originate in the uncreated cannot function properly when they are taken as being impersonal. As Saint Sophrony says, where there is no personal form to being, there is nothing that lives. There is no good and no evil. Good and evil, moral and immoral always ...

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All together (Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis)

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Have a look at the books of the holy Fathers. Many people have been sanctified in monasteries, but very few in the wilderness. Perfection is in the monastery, everyone together. Christ gave us the monastery: all together at the table, all together in prayer, all together.

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