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A course of treatment (Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos)

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The Church is a spiritual place where we find communion with God and this is very important. This is why, if you want to be peaceful, if you want to be calm, if you want to find your inner harmony, you have to communicate properly with God. And how do you do that? By keeping the commandments. The commandments are the means by which we’re healed. As Saint Gregory Palamas says, if we keep the commandments, we receive the uncreated divine energy. Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos

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Sin as Sickness (Fr. Andreas Agathokleous)

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If we consider sin as transgression against the ‘law of God’ rather than an ailment we inherited as children of the first Adam, it’s natural that this will create feelings of guilt. Because, if sin becomes second nature over time, it acquires authority over our soul so that, as Saint Paul says, we do what we don’t want to do. But, as can be readily understood, this creates pressure, we lose our peace, we’re in turmoil and suffer the consequences in our daily life. Our holy Fathers and Mothers, who really understood human nature- since they knew the depth of their own- speak of the sin lurking within us as a sickness. People should never feel guilty about being sick, but ...

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Christian Charity (Almsgiving) (Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios)

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We often hear in the Divine LIturgy and other Holy Services of the Church prayers and supplications before God that are related to “mercy,” such as: “Have mercy on us,O God, according to your great mercy…”;  “ For you, O God, are merciful and love mankind … “; “By the mercy and compassion and love for man of Your Only-begotten Son…”  These and many other similar expressions are heard repeatedly in our common worship, appealing to the merciful God. This truth of God’s mercy is revealed in the Bible, where it is frequently heard that “God is rich in mercy” (Ephesians 2:4); the Lord is compassionate and merciful (Psalm 102:8).  And as the Apostle Peter writes, “The God and Father of ...

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Encyclical for Greek Letters (Archbishop of Canada Sotirios)

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May 29, 1453. It is Tuesday. The day when the bright light of the Greek Christian world was covered with the dark veil of obscurantism. The city has fallen. The emperor has turned to stone. Hagia Sophia has been turned into a mosque. The thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire has collapsed. The evil that has befallen the Greeks is indescribable. They have lost almost everything. Fortunately, they did not lose their faith in the true God. For four hundred (400) years they suffered like no other people. Turkey, hand in hand with Islam, created the most satanic of plots to exterminate Hellenism. They created the janissary. They grabbed the Greek Christian children from the arms of their mothers, and proceeded to Islamize them and ...

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