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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AGAINST EVIL EYE (VASKANIA Prayer for deliverance against evil eye (vaskania) 12 May 2021. Sudden headache that does not go away with just a painkiller. Unexplained drowsiness, unbearable stomach ache, annoying feelings of weakness and unbearable dizziness, feeling of suffocation, high pressure or discomfort without any biological cause. THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT But the Cross of Christ is the means by which Christ vanquished the primeval enemy and was glorified. He defeated death and, through the Resurrection, brought people into a new condition of life, liberated from the bonds of death and decay. Even though the cross was a symbol of death and damnation in the era before Christ, (because, according SUNDAY OF THE PARALYTIC In a gold-mine, even the most insignificant vein isn’t overlooked, however difficult it might be to work. So, with the Holy Scriptures, you ignore even a jot or tittle at REPENTANCE ACCORDING TO SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS Repentance is the dynamic progression from the unnatural state of the passions and sin into the area of naturalness and virtue, it is the total rejection of sin and the road of return to God. Saint Gregory Palamas repeatedly points out this truth. “Repentance”, he says, is to hate sin and love virtue, to abjure evil and to do good”. THREE NEW SAINTS IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH On Monday, 9 March 2020, the Holy and Sacred Synod convened under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness to carry out the tasks of its three-day sitting. After the reading of the minutes of the previous sessions, it began its consideration of the items on the agenda. In particular, the Holy and Sacred Synod, on the recommendation of the

Canonical

WHAT IS NOETIC PRAYER OF THE HEART? The noetic prayer of the heart presupposes our participation in the life of the Church, in its sacraments, the observance of the commandments of God and obedience to a spiritual guide. In other words, it isn’t an individualistic-private approach to God. Within the Church, humble Christians receive the Grace of God and, of course,

along with

WHAT DOES THE PHRASE ‘ETERNAL MEMORY MEAN? The better we know our ancient and beautiful Orthodox faith, the more we love it. ‘Eternal memory’ means ‘May your memory be eternal for you’. I once heard a funeral address when someone said of the dead person: ‘May your memory be eternal on earth!’. I was taken aback by such an erroneous misinterpretation of our faith. SAINT SOPHRONY OF ESSEX: THE THEOLOGIAN OF THE HYPOSTATIC Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew left to the end his final surprise, bringing the joy of the resurrection: the announcement of a fifth new saint which the Mother Church of Constantinople has elevated to the ranks of God’s chosen. This is Elder, ELISABETH BEHR SIGEL Elisabeth Behr-Sigel was born on 20 July 1907; she left this world for eternity on 26 November 2005 at the age of ninety-eight. We inherited from this great lady a theological legacy of great value. All her life she was a faithful servant of the Lord. She has been a living witness of the ecclesiastical life in Western Europe for almost a century. PEMPTOUSIA | MOUNT ATHOS 18 May 2021 - Words of Life. The First-Fruit of the New World. 17 May 2021 - Theology. 1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and the Theology Teachers of the Open Educational Resources Platform “red-religie.ro”. 17

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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AGAINST EVIL EYE (VASKANIA Prayer for deliverance against evil eye (vaskania) 12 May 2021. Sudden headache that does not go away with just a painkiller. Unexplained drowsiness, unbearable stomach ache, annoying feelings of weakness and unbearable dizziness, feeling of suffocation, high pressure or discomfort without any biological cause. THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT But the Cross of Christ is the means by which Christ vanquished the primeval enemy and was glorified. He defeated death and, through the Resurrection, brought people into a new condition of life, liberated from the bonds of death and decay. Even though the cross was a symbol of death and damnation in the era before Christ, (because, according SUNDAY OF THE PARALYTIC In a gold-mine, even the most insignificant vein isn’t overlooked, however difficult it might be to work. So, with the Holy Scriptures, you ignore even a jot or tittle at REPENTANCE ACCORDING TO SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS Repentance is the dynamic progression from the unnatural state of the passions and sin into the area of naturalness and virtue, it is the total rejection of sin and the road of return to God. Saint Gregory Palamas repeatedly points out this truth. “Repentance”, he says, is to hate sin and love virtue, to abjure evil and to do good”. THREE NEW SAINTS IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH On Monday, 9 March 2020, the Holy and Sacred Synod convened under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness to carry out the tasks of its three-day sitting. After the reading of the minutes of the previous sessions, it began its consideration of the items on the agenda. In particular, the Holy and Sacred Synod, on the recommendation of the

Canonical

WHAT IS NOETIC PRAYER OF THE HEART? The noetic prayer of the heart presupposes our participation in the life of the Church, in its sacraments, the observance of the commandments of God and obedience to a spiritual guide. In other words, it isn’t an individualistic-private approach to God. Within the Church, humble Christians receive the Grace of God and, of course,

along with

WHAT DOES THE PHRASE ‘ETERNAL MEMORY MEAN? The better we know our ancient and beautiful Orthodox faith, the more we love it. ‘Eternal memory’ means ‘May your memory be eternal for you’. I once heard a funeral address when someone said of the dead person: ‘May your memory be eternal on earth!’. I was taken aback by such an erroneous misinterpretation of our faith. SAINT SOPHRONY OF ESSEX: THE THEOLOGIAN OF THE HYPOSTATIC Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew left to the end his final surprise, bringing the joy of the resurrection: the announcement of a fifth new saint which the Mother Church of Constantinople has elevated to the ranks of God’s chosen. This is Elder, ELISABETH BEHR SIGEL Elisabeth Behr-Sigel was born on 20 July 1907; she left this world for eternity on 26 November 2005 at the age of ninety-eight. We inherited from this great lady a theological legacy of great value. All her life she was a faithful servant of the Lord. She has been a living witness of the ecclesiastical life in Western Europe for almost a century. WE’RE ALL SO CLEVER For God to answer our request and for him to give us what we ask for, we must first have humility, but we don’t. All of us, young and old, are very full of ourselves and won’t accept advice or THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST AND THE Christ’s human nature ascended with him, and with it ascended the whole of deified human nature. So this event of the Ascension, of our deification, is something which has to do with the whole of the human person. It’s the glorification of the human body. This is what shows how greatly God has honored us. The notion that within the Church

ONLY FOR YOURSELF

Don’t look at the sins of other people, just watch out for your own wickedness. Because you won’t have to answer for other people, only for yourself. There’s no need to SERMON ON THE APOSTOLIC READING FOR THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (Acts 20: 16-18, 28-36) 12 June 2021 JESUS’ TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM (PALM SUNDAY Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) 26 April 2021. Today’s Gospel reading describes what is known as Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. From the whole of the narrative it’s clear that the entry into the holy city by Jesus is a triumph for the Church. It’s only through the faith and guidance of the Holy Spirit

that

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ASCENSION The feast of the Ascension seems not to present any particular interest, but rather a certain sadness in our hearts that the Lord is departing from us. Nevertheless, the following points emerge from the Gospels and from our lives as THE ASCENSION DOES NOT MEAN THE ABANDONMENT BUT THE As we know, the feast of the Ascension seals the first coming of Christ to the world, in the flesh. It thus completes the plan of God’s divine dispensation in

MID-PENTECOST

The Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost is the 25 th day after Easter and the 25 th before Pentecost. It marks the mid-way point of the fifty festal days after Easter. In other words, it is a stage, an intersection. To put it differently, without having its own theme, it links the themes of Easter, on the one hand, and the descent of the Holy Spirit on THE OLD TESTAMENT, ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY Synods of the Church long ago condemned ethnophyletism. In conclusion, the Old Testament and ancient Greek culture are the two pillars on which Christianity and the Church rest. The so-called conflict between ancient Greece and Christianity is no more than a fabrication and concoction aimed at drawing the people of the Church away from true

piety.

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