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We beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

16th Sunday after Pentecost—2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Brothers and sisters, I beg you to cultivate this feeling of sorrow in your heart, sorrow for your own sins, sorrow for the situation of those in the world. Not out of judgment on them, but out of deep sorrow that there is so much pain, that there is so much aimlessness and uselessness in the world, that people you love are having troubles and you don't know how to help them.

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Elder Paisios: The Children, Their Joys and Their Difficulties

Elder Paisios

God knows what’s best for each of us and provides as necessary. He doesn’t give people anything that’s not going to benefit them. He sees that it’s better for us to have some sort of defect, a disability instead of protecting us from them.

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St. Silouan of Mt. Athos: “I have many sorrows of my own, and they are my own fault…”

Roman Savchuk

There are moments when it seems that circumstances are indeed beyond our power, when life breaks down and it’s painful even to look at the world around us. Reality is cruel, and the soul can truly become sick. And no one knows when sorrows will knock at doors of the heart. But we must know in that moment how to answer these unawaited guests…

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The God of Our Enemies

Sergei Khudiev

The prophet does not at all want them to repent. God’s wrath has already been way too slow in coming. Nineveh will be destroyed? Good! The sooner the better! Finally! Let them reap what they have sown, let the same horror reign in their streets as what they brought to other cities! No one will have any regrets over this—least of all Jonah!So, when God sent Jonah to give the Ninevites their last chance, the prophet did not even want to go.

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On the Leave-taking of the Dormition

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

We don't murder, we don’t stone, but we turn a deaf ear to Christ speaking in the Gospel, to the testimony of Saints. Or we accept them with joy for one moment, but then, we do not carry it out long enough, with enough determination. And when we hear Christ speak, we don't murder Him as the Jews did in the days of His flesh. Rather, we turn away, and we go our own way.

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What is Truth?

Gabe Martini

In the Orthodox Church, the purpose of theological discourse is not originality, popularity, or novelty. Our goal is not innovation or abandoning centuries of faithful witness. On the contrary, our goal is to see ourselves united with the Mind of the Church as She is and always has been.

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How to Bear Sorrows

Olga Rozhneva

What will help us become stronger in sorrows? How can we prevent them? What can we do if grief over our children overcomes us?

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If I am the church of the Holy Spirit

Hieroschemamonk Julian (Lazar), George Kryshnyan

He has a pure heart, which reflects the heavens like a mirror, thanks to the goodness of his heart. When he is joyful his entire face begins to radiate. It is a great joy to find oneself nearby him then, because a feeling arises as if you are sitting on your knees by a grandfather with a snow-white beard, looking with love upon the inner child of your soul.

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The Dormition is a Triumph of Life

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

How can we celebrate the Dormition? As a day of death? Only if we remember two things: First, that for us who remain on earth, death is the bitter, painful separation from our loved ones. But for the one who dies, death, dormition (falling asleep) is a triumphant, magnificent meeting of a living soul with the living God.

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On Happiness

From “And they shall be one flesh"

Priest Pavel Gumerov

Once a certain priest went to visit the now reposed elder Archpriest Nicholai Guryanov and told him about the sorrows and problems he was having. Fr. Nicholai heard him out and said, “Rejoice!” “What is there to rejoice about?” The priest thought to himself.

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Reincarnated “Christians”

Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev)

I recalled today these two holy prophets, Moses and Elias, who appeared and conversed with Christ during His Transfiguration, in order to clarify the Orthodox Church’s point of view on the Hindu theory of the transmigration of souls, otherwise known as reincarnation.

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What induced the Soviet government to ask God for help?

What could have induced the Soviet government, which had officially institutionalized atheism, to turn to God and ask for help to be able to endure and overcome the atrocious situation the Russian people found themselves in?

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The World or the Monastery?

Olga Rozhneva

St. Anthony of Optina replied to a question about the choice of the monastic life, that one can be saved both in a monastery and in the world. And he reminded us that the enemy may give zeal for virtues that are beyond our strength, while, on the other hand, he may instill neglect and carelessness towards deeds that are within our power.

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The Centurions’ Intercessors

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

To see how this “works out,” let us return to the story of the centurion pleading on behalf of his servant. If we compare the differing accounts of this event in Matthew and Luke, we first observe that Matthew’s is the shorter and simpler version. In this account the centurion simply goes to Jesus, requesting that the Lord speak the commanding word, so that the servant will be healed.

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Let us Learn to Pray. Part 3

St. Theophan the Recluse

Is your conscience troubled because you say prayers hastily? That is justifiable! Why do you listen to the Enemy? He is the one who spurs you on. "Make haste, hurry up," he says. That is why you do not sense any fruits from your prayer.

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Let us Learn to Pray. Part 2

St. Theophan the Recluse

Never turn to God nonchalantly, but always with great reverence. He does not need either our bows or long prayers...

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Let us Learn to Pray. Part 1

St. Theophan the Recluse

The presence of prayer in one’s life means that the person is spiritually alive; without a prayer he is dead.Standing in front of icons and bowing is not yet prayer itself—those are only attributes of prayer. The same can be said about reading a prayer: whether recited by memory or read from a book, it would be not prayer itself, but merely a way to begin.

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Women in the Orthodox Church

Brief Comments from a Spiritual Perspective

There are multitudes of righteous women, known and unknown in our Church, which is often misleadingly characterized as “male-dominated”. This treatise by Archbishop Chrysostomos in Orthodox Life can shed some light on our understanding of the relationship of women’s and men’s roles in serving the Church.

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“Our Salvation is in our Will.” St. Seraphim of Sarov

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

When he was asked one day, in what does a perishing sinner differ from a righteous man who is saving his soul, a saint, St. Seraphim answered: Only in his resolve…

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Thoughts on the Nature of Evil

Fr. James Thornton

How is it possible that evil exists in a world created by God? For evil is precisely that which opposes itself to and resists God, perverting His designs and repudiating His ordinances. How then can evil exist if all that exists depends upon God for its existence?

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