Showing posts with label cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross. Show all posts
Saturday, April 14, 2018

The Cross Preserves the Universe ( St. John Maximovitch )

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In the Prophet Ezekiel (9:6), it is said that when the Angel of the Lord was sent to punish and destroy the sinning people, it was told ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Carrying your cross ( St. Ephraim of Katounakia )

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Everyone has a cross to carry. Why? Since the leader of our faith endured the cross, we will also endure it. On one hand, the cross i...
Monday, January 25, 2016

On Demons and the Power of the Cross ( St. Paisios )

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St. Paisios The Athonite Elder Paisios was asked the following regarding demons (called "tagalakia" by some Greeks) a...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

The cross we have to bear ( Elder Ambrose of Optina )

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    "God does not create crosses for people, that is, cleansing spiritual and physical sufferings. And however heavy that cross m...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Cross of the Prayer

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A pilgrim of the Holy Mountain visited a hermitic skete and stayed in the hut of a known elder. He had th...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Making the sign of the Cross ( Saint Cyril of Jerusalem )

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Let us not then be ashamed to confess the Crucified. Be the Cross our seal made with boldness by our fingers on our brow and in everyth...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The Sign of the Cross in the Old Testament

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In his first epistle to the Corinthians Saint Paul mentions that the “Jews seek a sign” (I Cor. 1, 22), that they wanted a supernatural sig...