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Chrysostom on Sorrow
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Sorrow
Let us not be distressed at the evils that happen to us. This is sobriety of mind. “In the season of temptation,” he says, “Make not haste.”(Ecclesiasticus 2:2) Many have their several griefs at home, and we share in each other’s sorrows, though not in their sources. For one is unhappy on account of his wife, another on account of his child, or his servant, another of his friend, another of his enemy, another of his neighbor, another from some loss. And various are the causes of sorrow, so that we can find no one free from trouble and unhappiness of some kind or other, but some have greater sorrows and some less. Let us not therefore be impatient, nor think ourselves only to be unhappy.
For there is no such thing in this mortal life as being exempt from sorrow. If not today, yet tomorrow; if not tomorrow…
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Lifeless Prayer – The Morning Offering
When prayer becomes dry and lifeless When we find ourselves struggling with prayer, and feel that it has become dry and lifeless, we are sometimes tempted to stop praying. When our prayer has become a struggle, it is good to remember that God knows our needs, and even knows what we want to … KEEP READING ›
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Chrysostom on Depression
Depression
Why then – with regard to other griefs – are you cast down, O man? Since, if for sins which is the only place where grief is beneficial excess works much mischief, much more so does it for all other things. Why do you grieve? Have you lost money? Well, think of those who are not even filled with bread, and you shall indeed speedily obtain consolation. And in each of the things that are grievous to you, do not mourn the things that have happened; instead, for the disasters that have not happened, give thanks. Have you had money and lost it? Do not weep for the loss, but give thanks for the time when you enjoyed it. Say like Job, “Have we received good at the hand of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil?” (Job 2:10) And together with that, use this argument also:…
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Why the Jews are the unrepentant destroyers of all that’s decent on the planet
WHY?
“We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.” —You Gentiles, by Jewish author Maurice Samuels, p. 155
Okay, so this is likely a bit of a shock to most of you, to find that the Jews have themselves been callous enough to celebrate themselves as psychopathic conspirators and the main destroyers on the planet. So why not read on and find out WHY the Jews have been so obsessed with wiping out Christians and terrorizing Gentiles, since they nationally rejected Jesus Christ and the gospel of their salvation in the first century.
Well first up, the Jews have become seriously pathologically eccentric, since they morally ‘spun out of orbit’ by rejecting the Trinitarian God of Israel’s patriarchs and the Bible at the center of…
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Gladsome Light
A recent mini movie produced about Holy Transfiguration Skete in Michigan.
