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“Let us not expect the spiritual spring if we don’t first pass through the spiritual winter…”
Let us not expect the spiritual spring if we don’t first pass through the spiritual winter during which the spiritual vermin die. We mustn’t expect the divine to blossom within us if the human hasn’t first died. – Elder Paisios (Eznepidis) the Athonite (1924-1994)
“The goal of reading is the application, in our lives, of what we read…”
The goal of reading is the application, in our lives, of what we read. Not to learn it by heart, but to take it to heart. Not to practice using our tongues, but to be able to receive the tongues of fire and to live the mysteries of God. If one studies a great deal…
“True happiness is not the honors and pleasures of the body. True happiness…”
True happiness is not the honors and pleasures of the body. True happiness is virtue. As many as fight to acquire virtue, to put into practice the commandments of God, these are the truly happy. – Elder Philotheos (Zervakos) (1894-1980)
“There are those who have soft souls and are easily convinced…”
There are those who have soft souls and are easily convinced. There are also those who have hard souls and don’t yield easily. The difference is as great as that between cotton and iron. The cotton requires only an anointing with words. The iron requires fire and a furnace of temptation to be worked. The…
“At the beginning of my priestly life in the monastery the celebration of a daily liturgy was added to the typikon of the daily services…”
At the beginning of my priestly life in the monastery the celebration of a daily liturgy was added to the typikon of the daily services. In the deep morning we would begin the service, and before the sun had risen completely we would finish the liturgy. Partaking thus daily of the Immaculate Mysteries, I felt…