Many people talk about humility, many people talk about freedom, but very few understand that these two are the same thing. I did not propose to make a prayerful translation of St. Ephraim’s prayer, but I will use it because it is the most representative and most famous of the nine Christians today. Even to …
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Right after Theophany, all honors and glorifies the Baptist, because the synod assembly of the people in the church means to chant and glorify God, in honor and praise the great John the Forerunner and Baptist him that is celebrated. A group like this, even that it had all the churches that are worldwide, and today it …
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For nearly 2,000 years, Eve feast of Baptism, the miracle happens from River Jordan where Jesus Christ the Savior was baptized by the Holy Prophet and Forerunner John. River, which naturally flowing smoothly to the Dead Sea, immediately after the prayer holy water Mari after Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem threw the cross into the water, …
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Saint Seraphim of Sarov, a great ascetic of the Russian Church, was born on July 19, 1754. His parents, Isidore and Agathia Moshnin, were inhabitants of Kursk. Isidore was a merchant. Toward the end of his life, he began construction of a cathedral in Kursk, but he died before the completion of the work. His …
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The Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer, was a disciple of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, as was also St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (February 23). St Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch, and successor to Bishop Euodius, Apostle of the Seventy (September 7). Tradition suggests that when St Ignatius was a little …
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The vision that has been revealed in our years to a father in the Holy Mountain of Aton, who, for his humbleness, has not written his name, fleeing the gloomy glory of men. “In 1854, in 14 days of March, on a Thursday, at six hours of the night, I got up to Utrenia, went …
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The Holy Great Martyr Catherine was the daughter of Constus, the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-313). Living in the capital, the center of Hellenistic knowledge, and possessed of a rare beauty and intellect, Catherine received an excellent education, studying the works of the greatest philosophers and teachers of …
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Sfânta Ecaterina, fiica lui Consta, predecesorul împăratului păgân Maximian, s-a născut în cetatea Alexandriei. Provenind dintr-o familie de rang înalt, Ecaterina a beneficiat de multe privilegii, a studiat foarte mult, astfel că, la vârsta de 18 ani, era cunoscută pentru frumuseţea şi înţelepciunea sa. Mulţi dintre cei bogaţi ar fi vrut să o aibă soţie, …
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Some monk was in the sheath and was under a parent for a few years. This, from the end of the devil’s enemy, coming out of obedience to the old man, left without any reason from his guide, trailing his covenant; because he was under the bond of obedience, without the consent of denying it. …
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