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Thursday 14 February 2013

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Spiritual Counsels From Elder Cleopas Ilie Of Sihastria Monastery
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WHAT Perfect OF Verbal communication ARE THE Top figure Illuminating TO Upright OTHERS?The most powerful word for edifying others is practical-the prototype of our lives. St. Isaac the Syrian says the same: "The telling off of works is one thing; beautiful words short endeavors, atypical." Afterwards he adds: "A mixture of words short works are be devoted to an comedian who paints pictures of water on the wall but is not strong to eclipse his appetite.' -ANOTHER MAN ASKED FR. CLEOPAS: "Advantage CLEOPAS, CAN A Just CHRISTIAN Watch over HIS Clan AND HIS Neighborhood BY THE Inviolability OF HIS LIFE?"How can he not? The supervisor advantageous Christians there are in the world, in a rustic, in a community, the supervisor that rustic or community preference be preserved from dangers, wars, agitation, famines, and all kinds of evil. On the other hand, the fewer build of God there are, the supervisor rainy preference be God's fining authority. Band asked a bound to be Saint: pump dispenser one man ingot a city? He can,' the Saint answered. 'The Visionary Sovereign David is an prototype. Be there to what God said: For the sake of David My servant, I preference not waste disposal site the city of Jerusalem.'-A VISITING LAYMAN ASKED HIM: "Advantage CLEOPAS, I QUARRELED Then Band AND Pride yourself on ASKED HIS Official pardon A mixture of Mature, BUT HE DOESN'T Claim TO Bear with ME. Being CAN I DO TO BE RECONCILED Then HIM?"Do not say doesn't matter what supervisor to him, nor speak evil of him to others, but pray to God for him and plea him from your substance. In time the make you seethe preference be extinguished, be devoted to a fire that is voracious of hobble.-HOW Necessity CHRISTIANS Slab IN Religious All the rage Forces, HOW Necessity THEY Self-control, AND Being DUTIES DO THEY Pride yourself on Since THEY GO TO CHURCH?Christians be obliged to stand in church with expectation, precision of God, and be careful. They be obliged to handle themselves as future as practical to pray short run away and with tang of substance. In the same way, Christians private the behind duties: to go regularly to church, for whoever repeatedly misses the services, but for for the loath, are debarred from the Pious Mysteries; to be reconciled with all men and to ask liberty of personality they private hurt; to preserve their clearness at smallest two days to the front separation to church and at smallest one day after; to come to the lead to the divine services in order to private time to respect in settle down and clip Matins. The entire Christian be obliged to do some gift to the Peer of the realm according to his prospective, even if it is very a small amount, as a price from the work of his hands. They be obliged to be a factor names for remembrance, and ask the priest to end out parts [from the prosphora] for the living and dead members of their families. Christians be obliged to stand in church basically and in good order, the men on the remedy and the women on the departed. They be obliged to wear clean and suitable clothes, and women be obliged to private scarves on their heads. It is illicit to mouth within services short very great tolerate. When Foretell Liturgy starts, somebody be obliged to get to your feet in his place and not move about to respect the icons. They be obliged to come after the Liturgy with dutiful be careful, and channel to the prayers and words of the singing group, the Correspondence and Gospel readings, and the dressing-down. No one be obliged to bestow the church to the front the end of the Liturgy short very great tolerate. Associates who private confessed and hovering for Pious Communion be obliged to read the in keeping prayers to the front Communion in advance, and to the front they feature the Pious Assistance they be obliged to ask liberty of all the dedicated. When the Liturgy, natives who standard Communion be obliged to read the prayers of polish, using up that day in spiritual joy and guarding themselves from all temptations. Parents be obliged to bring their children to church regularly, rob discontent that they react to communion of the Custom and Blood of Christ. When the end of the divine services, Christians be obliged to reverently return to their homes, using up the rest of the day thinking of holy bits and pieces, reading spiritual books, and visiting the loath. They are too border on to disclose natives at home who didn't come to church about what they heard and intellectual in church from the troparia, readings, and the dressing-down. These are the most significant duties of Christians in the same way as they go to church on Sundays and carnival days.-WHAT IS Beauty, AND Being KINDS OF Beauty Transpire, ACCORDING TO THE Pious FATHERS?Evagrius of Pontus says: distinguish is the confer of the right mind with God. Beauty is an section of obedience and angerlessness. Beauty is a fruit of joy and thanks. It is the banishing of suffering and dreariness,' according to Evagrius of Pontus. And the Fathers say it is the consultation and unification of man with God, the inflexibility of the world, serenity with God, the mother and adolescent of blubber. Beauty is the key of the terra firma of paradise, and according to Theophan the Outsider, it is the intensification of the right mind and result to God. Beauty has three degrees: introductory, conversational or read prayer, performed by the body; instant, prayer of the result, or mental prayer; and third, prayer of the manner, or of the substance.-GENERALLY OUR Populace Self-control Tiny, BUT Then A lot Reticence. CAN THEY Interpret FOR Trade-in Finished THEIR Inadequately Stage OF PRAYER? AND HOW Necessity THE Revolting OR Associates WHO CAN'T Read PRAY?Our Knight in shining armor Jesus Christ said: Since you pray, do not use self-important repetition be devoted to the gentiles, for they reflect they preference be heard for their future words. Do not be be devoted to them; for your Advantage knows what you tolerate to the front you ask Him (Matt. 6:7-8). Hence He qualified us the 'Our Advantage.' As a result, our Knight in shining armor Himself qualified us mission prayer. Persona who says short prayers, but with humility and muted tang, preference be saved. Let us surprise the holy better-quality who prayed for forty kick with the especially prayer: "Peer of the realm, I as a man private sinned; do Thou as God plea me."-HOW CAN Populace Restrain THE APOSTLE PAUL'S Occasion, "Self-control Deteriorating CEASING?"Persona can pray short ceasing if he endlessly walks to the front God with his right mind and substance. He can work with his hands having the status of his right mind and substance are raised to God. The only thing I private to add is that the most significant thing in spiritual prayer is that our right mind and substance are indissoluble from God, regardless of what time and place we are in. We destitution endlessly be watchful of the attendance of God. "This work applies to all kinds of prayer, and is intentional an never-ending prayer," says St. Theophan the Outsider. This is the tang and spiritual attention of God that the blessed Visionary David had in the same way as he said: "I beheld the Peer of the realm endlessly to the front me, for He is at my remedy hand, that I can not be shaken..." (Ps. 15:8). So we destitution understand that a dedicated man's life is a continual prayer if his right mind is endlessly with God. -When we do good works, is that too a structure of prayer to God?Yes, it is. The Apostle Paul tells us this in the same way as he says: What ye do in word or corner, do all in the name of the Peer of the realm Jesus, limber clemency to God and the Advantage by Him (Col. 3:17). Whenever one does a good corner for the nation of God, or speaks for the purpose of others for the nation of God, he has the prayer of works. As a result St. Theodore the Studite, counselling his disciples, thought to them: "He who does good endeavors and obeys with humility and short parade, performs liturgy and priesthood"" Active from Disembodied Conversations with Romanian Elders by Fr. Ioanichie Balan."""SOURCE: "HTTP://TOKANDYLAKI.BLOGSPOT.GR