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Архимандрит Савва Святогорец Беседа о лицемерии По милости Божией, по благословению Его Преосвященства и здесь присутствующих отцов, мы попытаемся рассмотреть хотя бы в некоторой степени эту обширную проблему, а точнее этот великий грех — грех лицемерия. Чтобы наши утверждения не были голословными, я начну с письма, которое один 17-летний юноша написал ко Христу….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/teaching-our-children-to-pray.html Raising our children – a general approach What’s elementary for our children is to be under the guidance of a Pnevmatikos (Spiritual Father), to meet with him regularly and submit to him with orthodox obedience (provided this Pnevmatikos is mastering the orthodox therapeutic system and is already cured)….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-church-is-not-supposed-to-satisfy.html Teaching our children to pray ceaselessly It would be a blessed practice for the parents (the mother, for example) to gather their children under (or in front of) the ikonostasis (icon screen) and invite them to jointly practice the Jesus Prayer for 5 minutes. “This is how we…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/seek-first-kingdom-of-god.html The Church is not supposed to satisfy our earthly plans There are people who think the Church is here, to favor our earthly plans. This is wrong, too! This is not what the Church is for. When we think of the Orthodox Church like that, we have superstitious…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-to-reach-purification-how-to-know.html Seek first the Kingdom of God “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” [Matthew 6:33]. To ask for the Kingdom means to ask that God reins inside me, He shall be my Lord. However, we…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/love-towards-god-and-difficulty-in.html How to reach purification I would like to remind you: the Jesus Prayer is not the only thing to be practiced. It is the entire therapeutic system of our Orthodox Church we have to observe. This means we should live a liturgical life (attend Church services frequently), we…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/is-spiritual-life-tiresome.html Love towards God and the difficulty in praying ceaselessly How is it when you are in love with a certain person? Just tell me, do you need any special effort to think about this person? No, you don’t. Your mind constantly revolves around this person; constantly… And you…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/whats-missing-true-repentance-force-and.html Question from the audience: Fr. Savvas, what about the noetic prayer? Answer by Fr. Savvas: I told you already. When we start doing it right and ceaselessly, there will be a moment when the very Holy Spirit will come into us and do it! Noetic prayer and how…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-much-can-we-endure-praying.html Illumination and how to reach it When we are in the state of illumination, we pray constantly. In a state of complete illumination, the Jesus Prayer is self-acting. This means it is being said by itself ceaselessly within our heart. The question is how to get there. In…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/illumination-of-our-nouscatanyxis.html Question from the audience: How much can we stand praying and attend the church services? Answer by Fr. Savvas: Frankly, if we start praying, it means we start breathing! Hence, when we ask about how long we can stand praying, it is like asking how long we can…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/antimonastic-spirit.html Illumination of our nous Question from the audience: Is illumination a permanent state or is the Holy Spirit coming back and forth? Answer by Fr. Savvas: When we progress to illumination, this state is permanent. It’s there and you live it 24 hours a day. This means we…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-need-for-guidance-by-experienced.html Antimonastic spirit Question from the audience: Many people think that we laypeople should keep a distance from the monasteries [talking about the antimonastic spirit and when it prevailed]. Answer by Fr. Savvas: Yes, this is totally wrong! This is what I have been already telling you, the antimonastic…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/11/daily-concerns-and-worries-and.html The need for guidance by an experienced spiritual father Whatever we do, we must never do it based on ourselves. We have to ask, we must have a spiritual leader. He is the one who will show us how to make progress in prayer. Not to mention, this…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/quantity-and-quality-in-prayer.html Daily concerns and worries and the abundance of material goods pose an obstacle to prayer Well, you might say “I have so many things to do and to care about; I do not have time (to pray).” So, I suggest you stop them all, and start praying. This…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/anyone-in-orthodoxy-who-becomes-heathy.htmlQuantity and quality in prayer Question from the audience: Fr. Savva, “evlogeite” (your blessing). People say “We cannot have quality in our prayers, because the Holy Spirit would/should be the only One granting the quality and enabling us for a pure prayer. What we can offer is just quantity,…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-advantage-of-orthodoxy-with-which.html Anyone in orthodoxy, who becomes heathy again, can heal his neighbor And, here is a wonderful thing to be found in Orthodoxy: when we go through the process of kátharsis (purification) and, by the Grace of God, become healthy again, we can be doctors also for our…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/living-orthodox-therapeutics-help-our.html The advantage of Orthodoxy, with which She can conquer the whole world, is its therapeutics, its unique healing method, the only method by which our human soul can be effectively cured. The purpose of Orthodoxy is not to offer some kind of a new fetish. Until…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/westernization-of-civilizations-by.html Living orthodox therapeutics – help our fellow human beings This is when orthodox therapeutics has its role and say. This is when we, orthodox Christians, living in a globally established terrorism and brutalization and despair, must have our eyes open and learn properly how to live Orthodoxy…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-take-over-of-orthodox-civilization.html Westernization of the civilizations by the western “holy” missionaries and the technology Toynbee claims (in his theory) that all civilizations are being westernized today, and, much to our regret, he is right! If you notice carefully, the whole world is becoming Americanized; Fast-food restaurants (McDonald’s in every…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/westernization-of-orthodox-east.html The take-over of the orthodox civilization Arnold Toynbee, a British historian (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975), said that the Orthodox Civilization is being gradually absorbed by the Western Civilization. I wished it would not come true, and it won’t, because Orthodoxy will be forever….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/by-taking-healing-method-preserved-and.html Westernization of the orthodox East Why was Hesychasm and its practitioners persecuted? Because the places it flourished (Russia, Greece, and Romanity in general) started to gradually undergo a cultural westernization. It all started in Russia after the reformation by the so-called Great Peter (in fact, he was…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/alteration-of-orthodox-tradition.html By taking the healing method preserved and applied in the monasteries and introducing it in our own homes and souls and apply it in our very lives, we get completely cured, both spiritually and physically. True psychotherapy, today, is unfortunately preserved and observed (almost exclusively and)…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/orthodoxy-is-medical-science-curing-man.html Alteration of the orthodox tradition – persecution of its acting body (the monastics) Back to our story again. Well, our imaginary researcher has started to realize when this tradition began in time, what its roots are, for how many centuries and where it was applied successfully. In…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-church-funeral-home.html Orthodoxy is a medical science curing man and societies Let us suppose, says Fr. John Romanides, that a researcher, a scientist, which has no relation to any religion, an atheist, if you may, conducts a research on religious traditions. Coming across the Orthodox tradition he digs,…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/election-of-bishops.html The church – a “funeral home” Unfortunately, this is the current state of our Church: a divorce office, a marriage and baptizing office! So, people come and say: “I want to get married. Let us set a date, Father.” “Alright, I am happy for you, but are…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-results-of-persecution-of-orthodox.html Election of the bishops Exemplifying the loss of the orthodox healing tradition is the way we elect our bishops in contemporary Orthodoxy. Our Church has insistently kept this blessed tradition to elect bishops from the monasteries. Why? Because the monasteries are the university medical schools that produce…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-anti-monastic-and-anti-hesychastic.html The results of the persecution of orthodox therapeutics and its vehicle, orthodox monasticism To conclude, Koraïs and his mob attacked the traditional orthodox monasticism and our hesychastic tradition, the only true therapy of man’s soul. What have they accomplished? The results are very easy to figure out by…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/atheistic-education-in-contemporary.html The anti-monastic and anti-hesychastic spirit today This New Age spirit, the secularized and syncretistic spirit (a blend of dogmas from various religions) has been submissively adopted by many people. We can observe that when somebody decides to become a monk or a priest… negative reaction by their…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-persecution-of-orthodox-tradition.html Atheistic education in contemporary Greece Education in contemporary Greece is actually atheistic. Just a while ago, I was told by a mother that she received a document from the school to let her child visit an orthodox, a so-called Roman Catholic, and later on a protestant church….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH previous:https://hristospanagia3.blogspot.com/2018/10/who-was-behind-this-hatred-against.html The persecution of the orthodox tradition today So, they hit the monasteries, because they did not want Orthodoxy to be strong. The same counts for today; they still don’t want Orthodoxy to be strong and free, because Orthodoxy produces righteous people, She produces true persons and not…
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