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Death is vanquished through the mortification of the passions (3rd Sunday of Luke)

Pavlos Mouktaroudis   From the moment when our first ancestors ‘inclined their ears’, paid attention, to the proposition of the devil that they set aside God’s commandment and eat the fruit which wasn’t blessed for their consumption, they suffered death. Their decision to eat that fruit resulted in the severance Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsOctober 9, 2022 ago
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The wretched and the more wretched

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘Whoever falls is pitiable. But more wretched is someone who entices another into falling because that person then bears the burden of both, as well as the burden of pleasure tasted by the other’ (Saint John of Sinai, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, discourse 15). The saint Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearOctober 13, 2021 ago
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The ‘Crucifixion’ of our Passions

Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari   At the sacrament of the bloodless sacrifice, we interact with the Cross of the Savior, since the Cross is the glory of Christ and the glory of the Church. But the Lord says that those who wish to follow him must first deny themselves and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsSeptember 15, 2021 ago
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It’s not enough just to defeat evil

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘People beyond the passions are revolted with excessive hatred by evil; those who have progressed even further beyond the passions are voracious for the riches of the virtues’ (Saint John of the Ladder) These days we’ve identified wickedness only with whatever conflicts with secular laws. Anything that Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsJune 24, 2021 ago
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Uproot them

Saint John of Kronstadt   It’s difficult to trample down the passions, which become like our natural members. Saint Paul says: ‘Put to death your members which are on earth’. When you’re constantly vigilant, when you pray and practice self-control all the time, then, with God’s help, you’ll manage to Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMarch 31, 2021 ago
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The Passions of Avarice, Anger, Sorrow and Sloth – Part IΙΙ

Saint Nil of Sorskij   During the period of relentless warfare, we must arm ourselves against the spirit of ingratitude and blasphemy, because it’s with those weapons that the enemy attacks us at that moment. Satan defeats people with doubt and fear and directs wicked thoughts at them like arrows: Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 years ago
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The Passions of Avarice, Anger, Sorrow and Sloth – Part IΙ

Saint Nil of Sorskij   Sorrow We have a great struggle to wage against the evil spirit of sorrow, which brings the soul into despair and perdition. If the sorrow is occasioned by other people, we have to suffer it with joy, and pray for those who have saddened us, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 years ago
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The Passions of Avarice, Anger, Sorrow and Sloth – Part I

Saint Nil of Sorskij   Avarice The passion for the acquisition of wealth, said the Fathers, is not part of human nature and is due to a lack of faith and people’s sick way of thinking. This is why it requires no small effort to combat this passion, if, with Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 years ago
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Do not feed your passions by yielding to them

Elder Ephraim of Arizona   Do not feed your passions by yielding to them, so that you do not suffer pain and affliction later! Labor now, as much as you can, because otherwise, if the passions are not tended to, in time they become second nature, and then try and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 years ago
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The Influence of the Passions (Luke 18, 18-27)

Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia   ‘When he heard this, he became sad’ The nobleman who approached Christ wasn’t a person of bad intentions. On the contrary, he was well-disposed, a strict observer of the commandments of the Law and, indeed, the sort of person who was Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 years ago

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