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Saint John of Kronstadt on prayer

Saint John of Kronstadt on prayer. Brief excerpts from the journal of St. John of Kronstadt  “My Life in Christ” “I languish, I die spiritually,” – said St. John, – “when I do not serve in church for several days, and my soul and heart revive, are aflame when I serve, immersing myself in a More…


4:32, Wednesday, 5 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Love seeks goodness

“Love covers many sins” (1 Peter 4, 8) This is what love can do! Christian love does not insist on the other person’s faults, but seeks to cover them. We all have faults, we all can become unpleasant to some of our brothers, through certain features of ours, we all may face such situations in More…


11:15, Tuesday, 4 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Some Reflections on the Question of Nationalism and Orthodoxy

The Orthodox Church is for all people, irrespective of country, race or culture. Patriotism – a proper and proportionate love for one’s country – is right and natural, but a strident nationalism or a feeling of superiority can have no place in Orthodoxy. Here in Britain, Orthodox Christians come from a variety of backgrounds. There More…


11:23, Monday, 3 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Elder Ilie Cleopa: „all our efforts are useless, if we do not guard these two: our mind and our tongue”

Often all our efforts and deeds become useless, if we do not guard these two: our mind and our tongue. Because all sins has their beginning in the mind, in the thought, and all bad acts are first of all expressed by the tongue. Saint Isaac the Syrian says: “A righteous man’s tongue is the More…


5:18, Friday, 31 January, 2014 | Continuarea


How can we be people of God in all that we do?

Learn to be man of God. Everybody learn. Do not only  expect others to do so, because those who preside in the chair are also human beings, people who acquired, to a certain extent, the quality of man of God. You should go beyond the teacher, mother, father, school master, etc. Turn you face to the supreme More…


2:24, Friday, 31 January, 2014 | Continuarea


Who is interested in his neighbour today?

In this struggle, many brothers of ours lay prostrated on the ground, in wounds, in their own blood, and there’s nobody to take care of them: neither lay, nor clergy, nobody; there is nobody to help them, neither friend, nor brother; because we all think just of ourselves. This is why we are all sinking. More…


5:35, Thursday, 30 January, 2014 | Continuarea


Christ in the centre of a Christian family

By priest Constantin Cojocaru If we put Christ into the very core of our life, if we penetrate into Christ’s words full of wisdom, teaching every Christian to love his neighbour, if we follow the examples of Holy Apostles and of Holy Fathers, we will never need any Family Codes, or, further, any Civil Rights More…


11:56, Wednesday, 29 January, 2014 | Continuarea


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