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Matthew 6:26-27 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

☦️🕯️The fear of God is the father of heedfulness, and heedfulness is the mother of inner peace, and the latter gives birth to conscience, which causes the soul to behold its own ugliness as in undisturbed water; and thus are the roots of repentance.🕯️☦️

♰ St. Seraphim of Sarov ♰

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Matthew 6:28-30
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

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Matthew 6:31-33

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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“Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured – rather it spreads.”




— St. John of Kronstadt


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Psalms 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Our dear Saints always struggled for piety and purity of heart.
Abba Pimen teaches:
"As long as the pot is on the fire, no fly nor any other animal can get near it, but as soon as it is cold, these creatures get inside. So it is for the monk; as long as he lives in spiritual activities, the enemy cannot find a means of overthrowing him." (Sayings of the Desert Fathers)

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how to say Jesus in different languages

Language Name/Variants

Afrikaans Jesus

Albanian Jezu

Arabic يسوع (Yasūʿ) (Christians) / عيسى (ʿIsà) (Mohammadans)

Amharic እየሱስ። (Iyesus)

Aragonese Chesús

Aramaic/Syriac ܝܫܘܥ (Isho)

Armenian Հիսուս (Hisus)

Australian Kriol Jisas

Azerbaijani İsa

Belarusian Ісус (Isus) (Orthodox) / Езус (Yezus) (Catholic)

Bengali ীশু (Yɪśu) (Christian) / ঈসা (Īsā) (general)

Bosnian Isus

Breton Jezuz

Bulgarian Иисус (Isus)

Burmese ယေရှု (Yay-shu)

Catalan Jesús

Chinese Yēsū

Coptic Ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ (Isos)

Cornish Yesu

Corsican Ghjesù

Croatian Isus

Czech Ježíš

Dutch Jezus

Estonian Jeesus

Filipino Jesús, Hesús, or Hesukristo

Fijian Jisu

Finnish Jeesus

French Jésus

German Jesus

Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)

Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua)

Hindi ईसा (Īsā) or येशू (Yēśū)

Hungarian Jézus

Icelandic Jesús

Indonesian Yesus

Irish Iosa

Italian Gesù

Japanese (Yesu)

Korean (I-seu)

Latin Iesus

Latvian Jēzus

Lithuanian Jėzus

Macedonian Исус (Isus)

Malay Yesus

Maltese Ġesù

Norwegian Jesus

Persian عیسی (ʿIsā)

Polish Jezus

Portuguese Jesus

Romanian Iisus3

Russian Иисус (Iisus)

Scottish Gaelic Iosa

Serbian Исус (Isus)

Slovak Ježiš

Slovenian Jezus

Spanish Jesús

Swedish Jesus

Tamil இயேசு (Iyēsu)

Thai อรรถ (Arth)

Turkish İsa

Ukrainian Ісус (Isus)

Vietnamese Giêsu

Welsh Iesu

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Matthew 6:34
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

In the book “Unseen warfare” we read advice about what to do to stay firm in faith and not to fall.

✔️“The mind should be freed and guarded from ignorance”, it says, “which is most harmful, for it darkens the mind and prevents it from knowing the truth”.

✔️That’s why we need to exercise our mind, to make it clear and lucid, able to distinguish things , so that we could get rid of passions and attain virtues.

Saints suggest two means for acquiring such clarity of mind.
✔️1) - prayer . We ask the Holy Spirit to pour His divine light into our hearts. And He will, if we truly seek God and obey His will.
✔️2) - always to examine things, learn and explore deeply. So that we could see clearly which of them are good and which bad..

✔️And we “should judge them not as the world and the senses do, but as they are judged by right season and the Holy Spirit, or by the word of the divinely-inspired Scriptures, or that of the holy fathers and teachers of the Church”.

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Matthew 6:34
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

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It is necessary to steadfastly remember that when the Gospel speaks of the forgiveness of sins and offenses, it has in mind personal sins and personal offenses. However, we usually understand and do everything the other way around. Self-assertive human pride forgives everything except for personal offenses. You can be both an atheist and a blasphemer and that is fine, only don’t touch me. You can be a thief and murderer, just leave me alone. You can be any type of scoundrel, but if you don’t do anything bad to me personally, especially if you do something pleasing to me, then you are already a good person. The opposite is also true: if the best possible person in some way, even unintentionally, wounds our pride, then there’s trouble: enmity between us is unavoidable, and he immediately becomes our mortal enemy. This is how everything is distorted. Our law is such: the one who indulges our self-assertive human pride, the one who pleases our passions is good and our best friend, but the one who speaks to us even one word of reproach, even if it contains salvific truth, immediately becomes our enemy...

When a gentle word of persuasion has no effect, when people are so steeped in evil that they do not yield to any admonishment and continue doing evil, a Christian cannot and should not take refuge in this teaching of the forgiveness of all, sit indifferently with his arms crossed, and apathetically watch as evil abuses good, as it increases and destroys people, his close ones. To indifferently watch the ruin of a close one by one who has lost his senses and become a bearer of evil is nothing other than the breaking of the commandment of love for one’s neighbor. Every type of such evil should be immediately thwarted with the most decisive measures, even including the sacrifice of oneself in an unequal struggle. The following words express particularly this idea: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. These are words which our Church has long applied to those Christ-loving soldiers who heroically died for the salvation of their neighbors.

– Archbishop Averky Taushev

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Modern Judaism, continuity, the old testament and the prophets



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Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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☦️🕯️Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.🕯️☦️

♰ St. Silouan the Athonite ♰

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Matthew 7:3-5
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

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Once elder Paisios the Athonite gave an example of a mother who asked God to grant her patience. “Her little child then comes in, and as soon as she has the table set for dinner, he pulls on the table cloth and everything spills on the floor. At such times it’s as if the child is saying to his mother: “Mama, be patient!”
All our everyday life is given to us to learn and try, to become better, closer to God.

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Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.