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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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    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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    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…

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    Apostasy

    Apostasy is permitted by God – do not attempt to stop it with your powerless hand. Flee from it yourself, protect yourself from it; that is enough for you to do. Learn to know the spirit of the age, study it, so whenever possible you will be able to avoid its influence…Only God’s special mercy is able to stop this all-destroying moral epidemic, to stop it for a while, because it is necessary that everything foretold by the Scriptures happen. Judging by the spirit of the times and the intellectual ferment, one must suppose that the structure of the Church, which has been shaking for some time, will fall quickly…

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    Commandments and Anti-Commandments

    “Amen; yes, come, Lord Jesus”  (Rev. 22:20) Here is the longing of the true Christian heart. From it is ever welling up a desire for Christ the Lord; a seeking of Him ever more and more. This is both personal and corporate. It is both an ongoing and reoccurring event and simultaneously one of most singular and unrepeatable uniqueness. The daily cry of the true Christian heart is “come Lord Jesus,” come today, this hour and minute and purify me of all impurity, wash me of my sin. Come Lord Jesus. This is the pulse of the Christian heart. This cry will find its final culmination at the end of…

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    Holy Zeal

    Links with the Holy FathersIntroduction by Fr Seraphim Rose In our confused days, when a hundred conflicting voices claim to speak for Orthodoxy, it is essential to know whom one can trust as spokesmen for true Orthodoxy. It is not enough to claim to speak for Patristic Orthodoxy; one must be in the genuine tradition of the Holy Fathers, not merely “rediscovering” them in a modern academy or seminary, but actually receiving their tradition from one’s own fathers. A merely clever explainer of the Patristic doctrine is not in this tradition, but only one who, not trusting his own judgment or that of his peers, is constantly asking of his…

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    The Thorns of Apostasy

    “And that which fell into the thorns, these are the ones who heard, and while they are going on their way, they being choked by the cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring forth fruit to perfection” (Lk. 8:14). In another place our Lord says a similar thing, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21). If the heart is preoccupied with material, passing, things, then it will labor with all its might to preserve them. For the materialized heart, all that exists is physical existence. The preservation of material existence becomes the primary goal of the material-man; indeed it becomes the all-encompassing driving factor.…

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    The Age of Distraction: Part I

    In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God. Amen.  “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”   St Luke 10:41-42 In the age of distraction we are fighting an invisible war against the demons who want to do everything they can to pull us away from Christ. We constantly work against our focus on Christ. Instead, we should be sitting at His feet. But, what does this mean for the 21st century Christian who has almost all the information in the world at his fingertips?…

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    The Cosmic Significance of Tsar Nicholas II

    “Give ear, you that rule over the multitudes and boast of many nations. For your dominion was given you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High, Who will search out your works and inquire into your plans” Wisdom 6:2-3. The Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II is, I would contend, one of the most significant saints of the past century and of our “modern” times. Clearly, every saint is of incalculable worth; yet there have been certain saints, throughout the course of human history, who occupy such a standing that their actions on the providential path which God ordained for them have vast implications for the world at large. Other…

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    Speak and We Obey!

    “In times past, a table used to stand in the corner wherein the holy icons were. Then, however, that space will be occupied by seductive instruments for the deception of men. Many who have departed away from the Truth will say: we need to watch and hear the news. And it is in the news that antichrist will appear; and they will accept him.”   St. Lavrenty (Lawrence) of Chernigov (he was born in 1868 and reposed in the Lord in 1950.) In times past, humanity was mindful of God. Sovereignty belongs to Him alone. Western civilization of olde was indisputably Christian. Inevitably it, civilization, was imperfect, there are no perfect institutions…