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Therapeutic Treatment of the Human Nous
(The Human Nous – Its anatomy, Nosology and Therapeutic Treatment) Transcript of a speech delivered by protopresbyter Constantine Strategopoulos at the Panhellenic Parents’ Union in the Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi, on Sunday, 14 April 2013.
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A Prayer for Enemies
by St Nicolai of Zica Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. Enemies have driven me into Thy embrace more than friends have.
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Abbot Damascene of Valaam
Builder of Orthodox Sanctity A THOUSAND YEARS OF VALAAM In the northern part of Russia a thousand years ago, on an island in the huge lake of Ladoga, was founded the monastery of Valaam.
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Prayer Concerning Ridicle
by St. Niphon Lord, have mercy on all who ridicule me or hate me. You know the evil one incites them to do this, just as he makes me continually embitter Your Divine Name.
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The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian
By His Disciple Nicetas Stethatos As Condensed by Bishop Theophanes the Recluse* His Life in the World Saint Symeon was born (in 949) in the Paphlagonian village of Galatia, of renowned and wealthy parents.
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St Nilus of Sora
by G. P. Fedotov (1886-1951) Russian Spirituality: The Teacher of Spiritual Prayer. Nilus The great monastery of the Holy Trinity founded by St. Sergius, although set in the midst of a virgin forest, was only fifty-odd miles to the North, from the city of Moscow.
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The Ancestral Sin and our Regeneration Homily 37
Because Adam believed the devil who had told him his lies, and tasted of the tree of knowledge, therefore, as one who had believed a liar, he fell away from the truth. After this, human nature labored a great deal seeking the truth but could not find it.
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The Blessed State Homily 2
Inasmuch as human nature lost its blessed state through the transgression of Adam, it is essential for us to know what Adam was before the loss of the blessed state, and in what consisted this blessed state, or that good and divine condition which man had before the transgression. The Holy Fathers tell us that God became man in order that through His becoming man He might again raise up human nature into the blessed state.
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Immortality, Resurrection and Redemption
The Word became flesh:” in this is the ultimate joy of the Christian faith. In this is the fullness of Revelation. The Same Incarnate Lord is both perfect God and perfect man. The full significance and the ultimate purpose of human existence is revealed and realized in and through the Incarnation. He came down from Heaven to redeem the earth, to unite man with God for ever. “And became man.
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The Immortality of the Soul
Are Christians, as Christians, necessarily committed to the belief in the Immortality of the human soul? And what does Immortality actually mean in the Christian universe of discourse? These questions are by no means just rhetorical ones.