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My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. THE BRANCH THAT DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT IS PRUNED BY THE FATHER… "I am the vine, the true one, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me which beareth not fruit He takethContinue reading “THE BRANCH THAT DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT IS PRUNED BY THE FATHER”

Gratitude is not just a simple human emotion. The ancient Greeks had come to feel both the duty of gratitude and the sin of ingratitude. We find even in our time an extreme, and horrible attitude of ingratitude by both young and old. Seneca, who certainly gives the ingrate a very low place in theContinue reading “THE DUTY OF GRATITUDE AND THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. PRAYER OF ANOINTING (MYSTERY [SACRAMENT] OF HOLY OIL) "O Holy Father, Physician of souls and bodies, Who did send Thine only – Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal every infirmity and deliver fromContinue reading “HOLY FATHER, PHYSICIAN OF SOULS AND BODIES”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. CONSUMERISM CONSUMES THE PERSON Saint John Climcaus writes, "Avarice is said to be the root of all evil, and it is so because it causes hatred, theft, envy, separations, hostility, stormy blasts, remembrance of pastContinue reading “CONSUMERISM CONSUMES THE PERSON”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. THE VIRTUES OF CHASTITY AND VIRGINITY According to Saint John Climacus, "To be chaste is to put on the nature of an incorporeal being." Furthermore, "Purity is the longed-fore house of Christ and the earthlyContinue reading “THE VIRTUES OF CHASTITY AND VIRGINITY”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. THE POSITION OF THE BISHOP IN THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO SAINT SYMEON OF THESSALONIKI Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki, in his Letter to Bishops, refers to the high position that a Bishop of a province holdsContinue reading “THE POSITION OF THE BISHOP IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. WORKING OUT OUR OWN SALVATION "…WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING; FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU BOTH TOto WILL AND TO DO FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE…HOLDING FAST THE WORDContinue reading “WORKING OUT OUR OWN SALVATION”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. FEAR IS DEBILATING TO MAN "Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of jdgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There isContinue reading “FEAR IS DEBILATING TO MAN”

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. "For none of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, WE ARE THE LORD’S. For to thisContinue reading ““FOR NONE OF US LIVES TO HIMSELF…” (Romans 14:7).”

My beloved spiritual brothers and sisters in Christ God, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. THE SPIRITUAL CROWN OF LIFE "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who loveContinue reading “THE SPIRITUAL CROWN OF LIFE”