Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels

  Prayer is the mirror of the soul. Just as in the mirror you see what your form is like, so prayer, when it is warm and sincere, reveals the […]

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      Let us not lose our time in vain. The kingdom of heaven belongs to those who force themselves. 1 Bear in mind the departure of our souls, […]

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  Repentance is endless. All the virtues, by the grace of God, may be perfected by man, but no one can perfect repentance, since we need repentance until our last […]

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  How many times a day, and every day, whether we are at home or somewhere else, we need to leave what we are doing and do what the Lord […]

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When you read the verses of the psalms and the prayers, do not think that they are someone else's words, which you repeat, and thus, you think that the psalms […]

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  When we are surrounded by sorrows, we must intensify our prayers, to attract more strongly the grace of God… Earthly pleasures lead to the great  eternal sorrow.   Saint […]

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  The older I grow, the more I perceive the instability, the vanity of earthly things. Oh, why do we trouble ourselves in vain? Our life is short—dust, ashes, a […]

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  Do not start a long conversation with the one who listens to you with a bad attitude, because you will make him feel very uncomfortable with you and will […]

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    We must always keep our minds calm so that the intellect can distinguish the thoughts that passthrough it and the good ones sent by God, store them in the treasuries of memory, while rejecting the bad and demonic ones. When the sea is calm, fishermen can see what is moving on […]

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      If you love to awaken in your heart the divine desire and to acquire love for Christ and with it all the other virtues, be frequent in […]

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