Tag: God

Penance with our whole heart: nothing more, nothing less

They asked Abba Sisoes, ‘If a brother sins, surely he must do penance for a year?’ He replied, ‘That is a hard saying.’ The visitors said, ‘For six months?’ He replied, ‘That is a great deal.’ They said, ‘For forty days? ‘He said, ‘That is a great deal, too. ‘They said to him, ‘What then? If a brother falls, and the agape is about to be offered, should he simply come to the agape, too? ‘The old man said to them, ‘No, he needs to do penance for a few days. But I trust in God that if such a man does penance with his whole heart, God will receive him, even in three days.’

From ‘Gerontikon’

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St. John Climacus: The memory of insults is the residue of anger

Remembrance of wrongs is the consummation of anger, the keeper of sins, hatred of righteousness, ruin of virtues, poison of the soul, worm of the mind, shame of prayer, stopping of supplication, estrangement of love, a nail stuck in the soul, pleasureless feeling beloved in the sweetness of bitterness, continuous sin, unsleeping transgression, hourly malice. Continue reading “St. John Climacus: The memory of insults is the residue of anger” →

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The Saints and the animals: “Pacify yourself and heaven and earth will be pacified for you” (Abba Isaac) – Part 1

The relationship of men towards animals perhaps should be presented under the prism of the creation of the world. We specifically read in Genesis, “and God created the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the animals after their kind and all that creep on the earth after their kind and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:25).  Continue reading “The Saints and the animals: “Pacify yourself and heaven and earth will be pacified for you” (Abba Isaac) – Part 1″ →

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The “God” of Western Theology

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios
An internationally known Greek composer, when asked by a journalist “have you ever called upon God?”, responded very bluntly: “No. I came from nothing and I am going to nothing. When I complete my cycle I will become dust. If this becomes an astral substance, it has no meaning, because I will not know about it. I would have already merged with universal harmony.”
This answer raises many questions not only from an Orthodox perspective, but also a philosophical and social one.

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