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    Fasting of the Eyes

     The image has invaded our current world and has now become the basis of our world. The image now occupies the widest space in all fields. The era of the printed word has passed, giving way to an age where words must accompany images to be taken seriously.  The image invades the human mind in today’s world, saturating memory, overwhelming consciousness, and burdening the intellect. The constant barrage of images affects our thoughts, both conscious and subconscious, burdening our imagination and leading to impure thoughts, which serve as a gateway to sinful acts.  The danger of images in this era comes from addiction to the use of social media, which…

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    The Lamp-stand of America

    Eugene Rose was born into a typical middle-class American family in San Diego in 1934. Like many young Americans, the materialistic attitude of the society that surrounded him did not satisfy his soul and an intense hunger and quest for truth began to arise from somewhere deep inside of him. The gnawing question of “what is truth?” began to completely consume him around the time that he graduated from high school. For the rest of his life, Eugene sought truth at all costs.             He rejected the “Christianity” of America, which he regarded as worldly, weak, and fake. To him, it seemed that this modern Christianity put God in a box…

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    Nightmare

    Introductory article to Issue XXIX that will be released Sept. 1st, 2023. Pre-order here. Wasting my time serving my mindFor sense pleasures I can findGotta get back, back to the truthYou know it was left behind It’s so easy to see, if you wanna be freeDon’t wanna be just a slave‘Cause no matter how you chooseYou know you’ll loseIf you ain’t looking for the truth Cro-Mags, Seekers of the Truth In Greek myths, the personification of sleep is the god Hypnos who lived in Hades near the river of Lethe (forgetfulness) with his brother Thanatos (death). In many stories he is kind, gentle, and calm, however he possesses those human…

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    Enter

    We stayed with Fr. Ilie Lacatusu (+1983) four years in Periprava at the Danube Delta.  He was greatly distinguished for his internal strength and silence. Rarely did you hear him speak, and when you did he had something important to say. Frequently he exhorted us to pray when we were in a dangerous situation. This man, I must say,  was truly humble. He never wanted to come to the surface, but always tried to remain unnoticed. I remember a miraculous event that took place at the Danube Delta, in which Fr. Ilie played a significant role. On January 30th they sent us to the channel to cut bladderworts. Do you…

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    Chasing the Phantom

    “We’re all blue from projection tubes. / We’re all blue from projection tubes. / This is the static age we live in. / Our eyes crisscross, hold, and gaze.”  –The Misfits, “Static Age” In observing the pathology of modern man, one must come to the conclusion that the disease from which he suffers has thrust him into a state of torpor, darkness, and delusion. Terminally unwell but forever in search of progress, he succumbs to vanities that deluge and swallow him: He has truly lost himself in the sea of vague definitions and vast irrelevance characterizing his age. He was born without purpose; he has fallen headlong into a blackness…

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    Homily on the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

    by Geronda George Kapsanis of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou, Mount Athos It is true that everything in the Church of Christ and in the life of Christians is sealed by the Cross of the Lord. There is nothing that happens in our Holy Church or in the life of the pious that is not sealed with the Honorable Cross of Christ. The Mystery of the Divine Eucharist is completed with the seal of the Honorable Cross. All the blessings of the priests of the Church are sealed with the Cross. The first mystery of salvation, Holy Baptism, is accomplished through the Honorable Cross. And in our daily lives, from…

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    Saint Nicholas “the Turk,” of Optina Skete (1893)

    Saint Nikolai of Optina was born by the name Yusuf Abdul. He was born in Asia Minor in 1827 or 1828, in the largely-Armenian village of Baghaghesh, to impoverished parents of noble lineage, who weaved cloth for a living. He was the eldest of three, having a younger brother and a younger sister. When he came of age, he travelled to Trebizond and then to Istanbul where he made the acquaintance of the vizier, and then to Sivas, where he came to serve in the Ottoman Army. His regimental commander was pleased with him and he served there as an officer of the guard, attaining the rank of captain. He…

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    Sinister Psychosis and the Remembrance of God

    “The progress of technology had led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power” Aldous Huxley. “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:34-36). Foundational to Christian living is the remembrance of God. Remembrance while waking. Remembrance while at work.…

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    People Today Still Choose Barabbas

    “‘Not this Man, but Barabbas!’ Now Barabbas was a robber” (Jn 18:40). Life, Light, Freedom, Truth Himself is revealed to the world and yet many encounter the revelation of Eternity, of the very divine One, and shrink back into the shadows of fallen human distortion. There, in the murky shadows, humanity may comfort itself with self-affirming platitudes.  “The light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (Jn 3:19). In the darkness, evil movements and  blindness caused by sin may be called light by fallen man. Evil may be called good. Thus, in this case, darkness is taken for light. True…