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From Death to Life
Man’s will, out of cowardice, tends away from suffering, and man, against his own will, remains utterly dominated by the fear of death, and, in his desire to live, clings to his slavery to pleasure. ~...
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Dying and Rising
It is through the Holy Spirit that there will be a universal resurrection. I do not mean the resurrection of the bodies at the end (Heb. 9:26), for then the angel will blow the trumpet and the dead...
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Notes: Florensky on Asceticism
[W]orldly literature has never understood the spirit of Christian asceticism, and … this literature has called Christian asceticism superficial and unjustifiable. When worldly writers write about...
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What is Fasting?
Abba John the Short said: “If a king wants to take a city whose citizens are hostile, he first captures the food and water of the inhabitants of the city, and when they are starving subdues them. So it...
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An Ascetic Epitome
There are a few similar sayings from the desert fathers to the one below, but I think it might be the most expansive. In any case, I think it stands alone just fine—one could consider every post on...
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Now, it is certainly required that what is subject to change be in a sense always coming to birth. In mutable nature nothing can be observed which is always the same. Being born, in the sense of...
View Article10 Years Orthodox
Now I do not fear God, but I love him: for love casteth out fear. ~ St. Antony January 11 was the tenth anniversary of my chrismation. Chrismation is typically done at the same time as baptism, but...
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