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What fool thinks he can look through a telescope and see Paradise?
Today, increased knowledge and trust in logic has, unfortunately, shaken our faith to its foundations and filled our souls with question marks and doubts. This is why we don’t have miracles anymore, because a miracle cannot be explained logically, it can only be experienced. But faith in God will bring down divine power and overturn…
Read MoreAnxiety !
Since I am always submitted to the Will of God, I cannot be anxious! Mother Gavrilia
Read MoreLove chases away the shadows of sin!
The Lord told us to love our enemies, so if someone claims to be a Christian and hates his brother, he is still dead in his sins…, because everyone is born in the darkness of sin and remains there until he is enlightened through Christ by the grace of baptism. But the person who comes…
Read MoreIt is not the self-critical who reveals his humility (for does not everyone have somehow to put up with himself?). Rather it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him. St. John Klimakos
Read MoreEvil thoughts and the devil’s desires!
An angry mind will necessarily think evil thoughts, as the devil desires. If the devil finds a mind ready for evil and slipping toward it, he deceives the person who was created for life. The thought, you see, is human. But the devil completes it. St. Ambrose of Milan
Read MoreThe power of the Cross!
“Let him come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.” What a deceitful promise! Which is greater: to come down from the cross while still alive or to rise from the tomb while dead? He rose, and you do not believe. Therefore, even if he came down from the cross, you would…
Read MoreShow us God!
How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment. St. John Chrysostom
Read MoreThe enemy of our salvation especially strives to draw our heart and mind away from God when we are about to serve Him, and endeavors to adulterously attach our heart to something irrelevant. Be always, every moment, with God, especially when you pray to Him. If you are inconstant, you will fall away from life,…
Read MoreWhat we are offering to God on the altar of our hearts is the sacrifice of ourselves.
There is nothing we can offer to God more precious than good will. But what is good will? To have good will is to experience concern for someone else’s adversities as if they were our own, to give thanks for our neighbor’s prosperity as for our own; to believe that another person’s loss is our…
Read MoreWhat would you do if the Lord were present and visible? Would you do this or that, if He were here, by your side? This thought protects you from sin. Mother Gavrilia
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