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Why the texts of the Fathers help us in our struggle

Saint Makarij of Optina   Letter 7 You write that although you read spiritual books, you’re overcome with despair. You force yourself to fast, to be vigilant, to pray and you don’t know why you’re doing all this. You know that you should be doing it for the love of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsOctober 13, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Spirit of Lust

Saint Cassian the Roman   The second struggle we have to engage in is against the spirit of lust and bodily desire, which begins to bother people at an early age. This is a great and difficult struggle, that’s fought on two fronts. Because, whereas the other failings battle away Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsAugust 12, 2021 ago
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Fight to the end

Elder Amvrosios Lazaris   We miserable wretches, monks and lay people, are in the last times, but the struggle is the struggle. We won’t give in even for a moment. Fight to the end. Then the Lord, who crowns us and establishes us eternally, at the last moment will not Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsApril 13, 2021 ago
The Children's Word

Friends Lift You Up When Things Are Hard

How did you meet your friends? Do you have friends from school and sports and from camp? Do you have friends from church and from your neighborhood? Our friends are special to us because we have something in common with them. We take care of each other. In today’s epistle Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 5 yearsSeptember 4, 2020 ago

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