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The Word of God (Luke 8, 5-15) (Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia)

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‘The seed is the Word of God’. The Lord often spoke in similes and parables. One of the most important of the parables is that of the sower. A farmer sowed his seed in a field and it fell on four different places: the road, a rock, among thorns and on good soil. Some of the seed which fell on the good soil bore thirty times as much fruit, some sixty times and some a hundred times (Mark 4, 20). Let’s have a look at how the word of God bears fruit. The explanation of the parable. The Lord interpreted the parable and said that the good soil is those people who have good and pure hearts (Luke 8, 15), people who ...

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It’s concealed inside us (Saint John of Kronstadt)

Κατηγορίες: In English

When we have a good thought, it means that within us there’s a good and supreme initial cause, which is leading our soul towards sanctity. It clearly appears from this that every good thing is somehow hidden away within us and that it’s a waste of time to try to put into our heart something which already exists there.

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