Repentance Prayer – Meditation on the 50th Psalm
Can wisdom always choose the right situations in life? Yes, but among the free! How many people possessed wisdom. Solomon “the Wise” […]
5:8- Prayer is necessary for the clergy and laity living in the world
Your consciousness must be filled with a feeling of the need to purify yourself from passions, and you should not be satisfied with treating others, but you must believe that you -
5:6- The fruits of prayer
-I will mention some of these fruits to you as long as you are willing to listen to me. “Prayer” is, in the beginning, bread that sustains
5:4- The war against Satan and confronting him
-You are now revealing to me that Satan is waging a fierce and relentless war against us. Why is he fighting us? What is his plan and method? that I
Body, chastity and love
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit... Father Elias Markos from the ontological and entity level and at the level of creation in terms of the organic structure of the human being
On jealousy and envy - a letter from Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Cartagena
Introduction Saint Cyprian is one of the Church Fathers who wrote in Latin, so he is called one of the Latin Church Fathers. He was born
Sermon Twenty-Four: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Thirteen: 11-14
“And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time for us to awake out of sleep” (Romans 13:11). 1 After he had commanded all that we should do,
Sermon fifteen: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Eight: 12-27
“So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
Continuation of the fourteenth sermon: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Eight: 1-11
The apostle went on to another subject, while leaving the subject of salvation as a given, contenting himself with what he had shown us. This subject
Continuation of the thirteenth sermon: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Seven: 1-13
After he finished speaking about the practical moral teachings, we find him returning once again to the faith teachings, saying: “Or do you not know, O you who believe?”
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Orthodox Virtues
Man’s true nature and true life do not emanate from earthly data, but from the Triune God Himself, because man is the image of God. If we want to seek man’s true life, we must draw near to God and savor His life. Only life close to God is “natural,” that is, life that corresponds to man’s true nature. As for distance from God, it is “unnatural.”
Chapter Twenty-Five - The Transformation of the World
The Church's war, then, is not against the body but against its passions. If the man of the new creation is freed from his corrupt passions, his senses and his entire body will become pure and enlightened, and everything around him will shine with the love and glory of God. In the lives of the saints of our Church there are examples of liberation from the slavery of passions.