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Saint Eugenia the Abbot (Archimandrite Ananias Koustenis)

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Today we celebrate the memory of a great saint, the holy blessed virgin martyr Evyenia. She lived at the time of Decius, in the mid-third century, in Old Rome, the great world power of the time. Old Rome, because later came New Rome, Constantinople, which is why the Life  makes the distinction, even though it had not yet occurred. Her parents were pagan but good-hearted and charitable people, and Evyenia was a good offshoot of theirs. She wasn’t Christian, but she had a Christian and kindly soul. Source: http://pyrography-falideas.blogspot.gr/ Her parents left Rome when the emperor sent her father, Philippos, to be governor of Alexandria, in the glorious city founded by Alexander the Great. Literature, the arts, culture and much else ...

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Ungrateful People are never Satisfied, they Complain about Everything (Saint Paisios the Athonite)

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(Edited by Stelios Koukos) When you see people who are very worried, troubled and sad, even though they want for nothing, you should know that they want for God. If people have everything- material goods and health- but, instead of being grateful to God, make absurd demands on Him, they’re going to hell in a handcart. If people are grateful they’re satisfied with everything. Every day they think about what God’s given them and they enjoy everything. But if they’re ungrateful, nothing pleases them. They complain about everything and are in a constant bad temper. Let’s say they don’t appreciate the sunshine and complain. The north wind comes and freezes them. They don’t want the sun, they want the shivering that the north ...

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