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James 1:21-22
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

True faith is so deep, that it takes lifetime to learn, and no matter who you are, how long you are in Church, there is always something God enlightens us with.
It also concerns those who say things about Orthodox faith without even little studying it.
St John of Kronstadt teaches: “When reading certain truths, do not say: «This is not new; I know this; I said this myself also.» All this is diabolical pride. Such a frame of mind responds with the following philosophy: «I know everything, good and evil.» It almost signifies: « I am omniscient.» And many people do not read sermons and religious books because they think that they know all that is written there–that all that is written there is a repetition of what has been known to them long ago; while worldly books, in which, indeed, there is always the one same empty worldly vanity, they read willingly, and sometimes several times over. O, impure flies that feed upon carrion!”

#Satans_Synagogue #Last_Days #Millstone

People have gone nuts.
Is this what Catholicism has become?

Such disrespect

https://t.me/thereversion/1509

#Jesus_Words #Salvation

John 15:10

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Meekness means gentleness and kindness, no selfishness and self-centeredness, it also has strive to overcome evil by good. To be meek requires real repentance and mourning for own sins. It requires spirit of humility - understanding that I am no better than others to judge, and from this goes meekness – when I restrain myself from movements of anger and overcome the wish to be offended or to offend, and when I do good quietly. No wonder it is one of the Beatitudes mentioned by Christ needed in our spiritual life.

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John 15:11-12
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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John 15:13-14
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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John 15:15
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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John 15:17-18
These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

"One cannot help looking upon the whole modern aberration as a kind of last "fall" of man, an imitation on a worldwide scale of the sin of the first man—the desire to be as God, to know fully. And who can say why God allows this— unless it be simply that in the end, as in the beginning, we confront Him.

There was no "reason" for the fall of the prodigal son— and yet how much joy there was on his return. Perhaps after all God "allowed" the modern age for the joy over the reception of repentant sinners at the end of it."

+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina