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Hypocrisy Begins the Moment There Appears the Intention Not to Do Good, but Only to Show Yourself as Doing Good
by St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 5:1-8; Luke 11:47-12:1] Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. The distinguishing feature of hypocrisy is to do everything for show. To do things where others can see is…
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.” (Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi)
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
Then the person becomes noble in the eyes of God because of his heart’s disposition, although on the outside he may sometimes seem unprepossessing to other people.
St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 4:1-12; Luke 11:42-46] The Lord reproaches His contemporaries by saying that they pass over the judgement and the love of God. The drying up of righteousness and love is the root of all disharmony…
A New “god” for Those Who Don’t Truly Know the One True God – Many Religions Agree to Worship a New “god”
JEBEL MUSA, Egypt — An initiative to mobilize faith leaders worldwide to push governments to do more about climate change kicked off Sunday morning with an Israeli environmental activist smashing mock tablets of stone atop an Egyptian peak believed…
What is the parchment on which this record is written? Our conscience.
by St. Theophan the Recluse [II Cor. 8:1-5; Luke 8:16-21] Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. Therefore, no matter how much we hide our bad deeds,…
Only Good and Truth Make Up a True Possession
by St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:14-19; Luke 11:23-26] He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. It turns out that one can labour an entire age and think that…
St. Anastasia the Roman
The Martyr Anastasia the Roman was born in Rome to well-born parents and left an orphan at the age of three. As an orphan, she was taken into a women’s monastery near Rome, where the abbess was a Nun named Sophia, a nun of…
While this Soul Serves the Lord, Demons Cannot Prevail Over it.
By St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:9-14; Luke 11:14-23] When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him…
“He hints at the reason why sometimes our prayers and petitions are not heard or are not fulfilled”
St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:1-8; Luke 11:9-13] The Lord convinces us to pray with the promise of His hearing, explaining this promise as the soft-heartedness of a natural father, favourably disposed to the petitions of his children. But…