Thursday, March 7, 2013
EATING FRUIT...
We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.
What is the correct way of eating fruits?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.
In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil....
So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining — every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc — actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!
Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.
There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.
But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.
STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
ORANGE : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene — the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.
GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content.. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.
Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can u believe this?? For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE': (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!) Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
Healing the ‘sickness’ of the Pharisees
By the Metropolitan of Limassol, Athanasios.
One may wonder what the purpose is of all the things we do
as part of our worship, namely our visits to holy places, the lighting
of candles, the all night vigils, the prayers, the fasting, alms giving
etc. The response to this question is very significant since it will
reveal whether or not we are leading a proper spiritual life.
Let me give you an example. I often ask the kids at the
camps which is the most important commandment the Lord gave. And they
all give me various answers: ‘Do not steal’, ‘do not lie’, ‘do not harm
other people’, ‘respect your parents’ etc, yet no child ever suspects
that none of these is the first command given by the Lord.
They often believe that the first commandment is ‘love thy
neighbor’, yet when I told them that this is not it, one child once
said: ‘Yes, I know the first commandment. It is ‘multiply and fill the
earth’! Of course this isn’t the first commandment either!
The first and only command given by the Lord is ‘love your
God with all your heart’; all others follow from this one. Jesus says:
The first command is: “And you shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind and with all
your strength”. He also gave a second command similar to the first
which is “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12, 30-32).
Everything else follows from these two. If you love your neighbor you
will not steal from him, you will not lie to him, you will not harm him,
or take his possessions, you will not bother his wife or his home and
neither will you condemn him. ‘You shall love your neighbor’ is also the
outcome of the first commandment. If you love the Lord it is impossible
not to love your neighbor. In other words, a natural result of loving
the Lord is to love our neighbor.
Therefore, the first and only commandment is to love the
Lord with all our heart and everything we do as part of our life in the
Church has this purpose. We visit places of worship, we fast, we pray,
we go to confession, we light candles and we read the lives of Saints
and all the rest of it, in order to love Jesus.
So, what do we do wrong? Unfortunately, we say that we do
all of the above in order to become better persons. This is the great
disillusionment. This is the obstacle that we all stumble on. If the
Church aimed to help us becoming better persons then there would be no
reason for us to build a personal relationship with Jesus, neither would
He have had any reason to come to this world.
Why do you think it is so hard for us to understand the
Saints? Or to put it simply: Why are we not able to understand those who
love the Lord?
We often say: ‘Is it necessary to do these things in order
to be saved and be with the Lord?’ ‘Is it necessary for example, to live
alone on the mountains? Of course not, this is not necessary’. However,
if we appreciate that our relationship with the Lord is not about being
saved, but it is about loving, only then we are able to understand what
the Saints have done and why. Otherwise their actions remain
incomprehensible to human logic, since love goes beyond reasoning.
The case is similar to what happens in the world when two
people love each other; they end up doing things which do not stand to
reason. If you ask a man: ‘who is the most beautiful girl in the world?’
he will reply that it is his girl. He sees her, of course, through his
eyes. Our eyes may not agree with him! Or he may describe her
personality in the best possible way, without seeing any flaws or saying
anything bad about her, since love goes beyond these things. Love rises
above logic and is not bound by it.
The same thing happens with the Lord’s love. It is beyond
human reasoning. That’s why it is impossible to understand those who
love the Lord. It is for the same reason that the saints exhibited
behavior outside common sense. Their common sense was that of love.
Our Church does not teach us how to become better persons.
(This is necessary of course. Unless we do this what else is there to
do?) It teaches us to love Jesus; to love Jesus Christ as a person.
A relationship develops within the Church. It is the
personal relationship of man with Jesus Himself and not with His
teachings or with the Gospel. The Gospel is something which helps us
love Jesus. But as soon as we accomplish this, we do not need the
Gospel. We do not need anything. These things stop. This is the
difference between the Church and religion.
A religion teaches you how to discharge your duty, just
like the heathen do. For example we visited the places of worship, we
worshiped the icons, we bought candles, offered oil, written our names
down for the priests to pray etc. These are our religious duties. Yet,
our heart did not change at all. As soon as we did our duty, we went
back to our ways; ready to fight, ready to complain and pick a bone with
the others. Our heart did not change. We have not started a
relationship with Jesus yet, because we simply rely on doing our
religious duty.
You must know that religious people are the most dangerous
people in the Church. Pray that the Lord saves us from such people. Once
when I was administering at the Altar and said the prayer: “Lord save
the devout”, one Hayiorite monk said as a joke: ‘Lord, save us from the
devout”! In other words, Lord save us from the religious people who have
perverted personalities without any personal relationship with Him.
Such persons only discharge their duty and it is for this reason that
the Lord never reveals anything to them. I am confessing to you, that I
have never met worst enemies of the Church than the religious people.
When the children of such religious people- even of priests
and theologians who pretend to be devout-, tried to become monks or
priests, the parents became worst than the devil. They lashed at
everybody. They became the worst enemies of their children.
I remember some parents who used to bring their children to
preaching. When their children tried to take a step further, the
parents became furious and were throwing the worst accusations against
everyone. Once, I said to one such parent: “It was you who brought the
child to preaching, not me”. On a different occasion when I realized
that a young girl had fervent zeal for the Church, I told the father:
“Do not bring her here again because she will become a nun and you will
say that it was my fault”. He responded: “No Father, we adore you!” When
his daughter did become a nun, he still doesn’t talk to me seven years
later!
These were the people who would never miss the chance to
hear a preaching; they were always the first to go to all night vigils,
to read books and what have you…When the time came for their child to
chose freely his own way, they changed stance and their behavior
revealed that Jesus had never spoken into their hearts. They were simply
religious people. That’s why I tell you that religious people are the
most difficult kind in the Church.
You know what? Such people will never be healed because
they believe that they are close to the Lord. On the other hand, the
sinners, those who are lost, know that they are sinners.
Jesus Himself had said that whores and the tax collectors
will be the first to enter the Kingdom of Heaven while the Pharisees
will never enter because they were religious. The Lord’s word had never
touched their hearts. They just went about adhering to the religious
norms.
Therefore, let us be watchful and let us understand that
the Church is a hospital which offers treatment and helps us love Jesus.
Let us also check to see whether Jesus’ love which is like a burning
flame has been set ablaze in our hearts and whether we truly love the
Lord. If on the other hand, we find wickedness and selfishness and vice
in our hearts, we ought to start worrying. It is not possible to be
full of vile if Jesus has taken residence inside our hearts.
For, how is it possible to stand in prayer and yet be full
of vile against other people? How is it possible to be reading the Bible
and yet not accepting your neighbor? How is it possible to say that ‘I
have been active in the Church for so many years- I am a priest, a monk
or whatever’ and yet not accept the first and the last thing in
spiritual life: love and patience? If you haven’t learnt this, you
haven’t achieved anything, nothing at all, nothing.
In the parable of the ten virgins, Jesus told five of them
that He had never known them. He threw them out of the bridal chamber
simply because they had no love, even though they had accomplished all
other virtues. He wanted to teach them that even though they had all the
external virtues, e.g. chastity and a thousand other things, they had
not managed to achieve what was most important of all, namely love. If
you do not achieve this, what do you need all the others? For example, I
may refuse to eat oil today because I am fasting and yet I may be
‘eating’ my brother alive all day.
There was a saying at the Holy Mountain: “Do not ask if you
are allowed to eat fish at times of fasting. Just do not eat
the….fisherman and forget about the fish!” Pestering the other person
everyday is much worse than allowing you to eat a drop of oil at times
of fasting! There are people who may start a fight because the other
person dared dip the spoon in the salad which had oil on days of
fasting!
See how ridiculous these things are? We become the laughing
stock of both the devil and those away from the Church. Those who
approach the Church goers, instead of seeing people who remind them of
Jesus – sweet, mature and well-balanced- they notice instead all our
passions and our vices and say: ‘If I join the Church am I going to
become like them? I better skip it!”
You, who go to Church how, have you benefited from it?
As we were saying yesterday, we went to places of worship,
we went to the Holy Mountain etc, what benefit did we derive? Has our
heart been transformed? Have we become more humble, sweeter, and meeker
at home, at work or at our monastery? If we haven’t managed to change,
then at least we ought to become more humble through repentance. If we
haven’t managed this either, then people ought to mourn on our behalf.
Time passes away never to return and yet we are still ‘counting the
days’.
Elder Paisios used to give this response when people were
asking him how long he was living at the Holy Mountain: “I arrived the
same year with my neighbor’s donkey! And he meant that neither of them
had changed; just as the donkey remained a donkey despite his many years
at the Holy Mountain, the same thing was happening to him!
People, usually priests or monks, say: “I have been at the
monastery for forty years”. They do not realize that such a long time
counts against them. The Lord will tell such a person: “You have been at
the monastery forty years and you haven’t managed to change! You are
still getting angry, still criticize people, still answer back and still
refuse to submit to others. You have been here forty years and you have
yet to learn the first principle of monastic life- to be able to say a
sweet word to someone’.
I am telling you these things so that I may hear them too.
All these apply to me first of all. I am telling you these things
because I am doing them myself, that’s why I know them.
Therefore, let’s at least humiliate ourselves. Let us shut
our mouths when we feel our ego well up inside us; let us recognize that
we also possess all sorts of passions which ridicule us in front of
others and make us seem foolish in the face of the Lord. If we humble
ourselves and stop thinking that we are important, then we may slowly
start changing for the better through repentance which is the result of
humility. He, who refuses to find excuses for himself, is the one who
truly repents. He, who always finds excuses either in front of others or
during his silent talk with himself, will never learn what repentance
means.
Therefore, let’s examine ourselves, my brothers, and see if
the Lord’s love resides inside our hearts and whether we are truly able
to repent so that at least the Lord may heal our nature. Let’s allow
our relationship with the Church to heal us so that we may be liberated
from passions and sin.
People often ask: How can we manage this?
We will manage if we abandon ourselves with trust in the
hands of the good Lord, the healer. When we do this, the Lord who knows
what each one needs, will slowly guide us through our various
circumstances and our hardships, to our perfection at the end of a long
path. We ought to trust the Lord just as we trust the doctor or the
captain of a ship. We know that no matter what happens he will take us
where we want to go.
…………….
It is also important to remember this: Just when everything
seems humanely impossible to restore, when one turns to the Lord,
everything becomes possible again. Jesus said that what seems impossible
for man is possible for God. Indeed, every day we are witnessing the
miracles performed by the Lord, despite our difficult circumstances and
the abundance of sin. There are still people who love the Lord, thriving
like roses in spite of the thorny bushes.
The great miracle of our deliverance is accomplished
despite our human weaknesses, our troubles and the troubles the Church,
our family, the whole society are facing.
When all is said and done, the only solution to all our
problems is to turn towards the Lord and love Him. Then the Lord will
heal us and help us rise again even if we are like dead fish. The only
thing we have to do is to throw out all the trash from our hearts and
replenish them with the love for the Lord. And then we have to build our
life, our studies and our family on top and around this love. If one
manages to do this then his life will become like paradise and he will
be happy. Paradise is nothing but the love of God; hell is nothing more
than the absence of this love.
In conclusion, I pray that the Lord’s love accompanies you
and helps you remember that whatever we do should not be done in order
to become religious people, but people who love the Lord. Thus our lives
will be transformed and we will be transformed in Jesus Christ our
Lord.
Spiritual Warfare IV - Conquering Thoughts
Saint Theophan says,
"Attentively follow the course of affairs and watch what thoughts accompany them and conclude them, in order later to judge by this what initially lay within."Think of being in a boxing match. In the boxing ring you have to defend yourself from the punches of your opponent. You receive many little jabs that have no direct impact. But these small punches only set you up for that big punch which can knock you out.
Saint Theophan says,
"The enemy has a law––not to begin suddenly with a passion but with a thought, and to repeat the thought often."These repeated thoughts may not always be bad thoughts. The bad ones are easy to reject, but others require keen discernment. When new thoughts come about be wary. Don't immediately incline to accept them. Be patient. Watch and objectively reflect. Don't trust in your own reasoning but share new thoughts with a trusted friend or your spiritual father.
The risk is disillusion. Saint Theophan describes it this way.
"Their foremost characteristic is that a person assuredly considers himself to be something he is not––for example, call to teach others, capable of an extraordinary life, ad so on Our pride is always lurking in the back ground waiting to be satisfied."Our challenge is to free our mind of unnecessary thoughts. Saint Theophan states,
"The result of warfare can be a mind free of thoughts, a heart free of passions, and a will free of tendencies. When this develops, the person has achieved passionlessness. His inner being becomes a clear mirror that reflects spiritual things."
Να διαβάζεις την Καινή Διαθήκη και βίους Αγίων
-Αλήθεια, τι βιβλία διαβάζεις, είπε στον Χ. ο γέροντας Πορφύριος;
- -Δεν έχω καμία ιδιαίτερη προτίμηση. Τα διαβάζω όλα.
- - Βίους Αγίων διαβάζεις;
- -Έχω διαβάσει πάρα πολλούς. Και μου αρέσουν πολύ!
- -Να διαβάζεις όλους τους βίους των Αγίων. Εγώ τους έχω διαβάσει όλους και πολλούς τους έχω διαβάσει δύο και τρεις φορές. Και σαν μου τύχει κανείς, ευχαρίστως τους ξαναδιαβάζω. Από μικρό παιδί διάβαζα τους βίους των Αγίων και με βοήθησαν πάρα πολύ να γνωρίσω το Θεό και να έλθω πιο κοντά Του. Το ίδιο να κάνεις κι εσύ. Θα έχεις μεγάλο ψυχικό όφελος, γιατί σιγά- σιγά θα αρχίσεις να τους μιμείσαι. Το ίδιο να λες να κάνουν και οι άλλοι.
- -Την Καινή Διαθήκη τη διαβάζεις;
- -Την Καινή Διαθήκη δεν την έχω απλώς διαβάσει , αλλά την έχω μελετήσει και μάλιστα με πολλή προσοχή! Και συνεχώς κάνω επανάληψη.
- -Σωστά πράττεις! Να τη διαβάζεις πολύ. Είναι πηγή ανεξάντλητη! Και όσο τη διαβάζεις ,τόσο περισσότερο υπεισέρχεσαι στη σοφία του Θεού! Να προσπαθείς κάθε βράδυ να διαβάζεις έστω μία σελίδα.
- Το ίδιο μου έχει υποδείξει να κάνω και ο πατήρ τάδε.
- Σε καθοδήγησε ορθά. Τις πράξεις των Αποστόλων τις διαβάζεις;
- Τις διαβάζω και μου αρέσουν πολύ. Εκεί που δεν τα πάω καθόλου καλά, είναι η Αποκάλυψη του Ιωάννου.
- Γιατί; Η Αποκάλυψις είναι όλο σοφία! Είναι το παν.
- Γιατί, όλο για «σφραγίδες» και «σαλπίσματα» ομιλεί και εγώ δεν τα πολυκαταλαβαίνω! Είναι πολύ δυσνόητα!
- Άμα τη διαβάσεις πολλές φορές και με πίστη στο Θεό, θα δεις πως η Θεία Χάρη θα σου τα φανερώνει όλα και θα σου φανούν, μετά, όλα πολύ εύκολα! Θα το διαπιστώσεις και μόνος σου πολύ γρήγορα. Η σοφία του Θεού δεν έρχεται μόνη της. Πρέπει εμείς να τη ζητήσουμε. Διάβαζε λοιπόν. Διάβαζε όσο μπορείς την Αγία Γραφή και τους βίους των Αγίων. Αυτό σου συνιστώ.
Κομβοσχοίνι - Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ ελέησόν με, Υπεραγία Θεοτόκε Σώσον ημάς,
Το κομποσκοίνι που έχουν όλοι οι Ορθόδοξοι μοναχοί και το χρησιμοποιούν και πολλοί ορθόδοξοι λαϊκοί, είναι συνήθως μάλλινο και πλεγμένο σε διάφορα μεγέθη. Από πολύ μικρό, που φοριέται στο δάχτυλο, έως πολύ μεγάλο: 33άρι (με 33 κόμπους), 50άρι (με 50 κόμπους), 100άρι, 500άρι κ.λπ.
Στην προσευχή με κομποσκοίνι, που βοηθά πολύ στη συγκέντρωση του νου, ακολουθείται συγκεκριμένη τεχνική μέθοδος. Σε κάθε κόμπο που περνά ανάμεσα στα δάχτυλά του ο προσευχόμενος, λέει αλληλοδιαδόχως τις ευχές: Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ ελέησόν με, Υπεραγία Θεοτόκε Σώσον ημάς, Άγιοι του Θεού πρεσβεύσατε υπέρ υμών. Είναι δυνατόν να λέγεται και μόνη η ευχή Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ ελέησόν με. Το κομποσκοίνι έχει σχεδιαστεί για προσευχή, και όχι για να παίζει ρόλο βραχιολιού στον καρπό του χεριού ή σαν κομπολόι
Στο κομποσκοίνι, κάθε τμήμα του έχει κάποια συμβολική σημασία. Είναι πλεγμένο κυρίως από μαλλί για να θυμίζει στα μέλη της Εκκλησίας ότι είναι τα λογικά πρόβατα του Ιησού Χριστού (Ιωάν. 10:11). Έχει χρώμα μαύρο που συμβολίζει το πένθος των αμαρτιών αφού "ουδείς αναμάρτητος" (πρβλ. Γ' Βασ. 8:46, Ιώβ 4:17, Ρωμ. 3:9-12 κ.ά.). Πάνω του το κομποσκοίνι έχει τον σταυρό για να φέρνει στη μνήμη "ότι έτι αμαρτωλών όντων ημών Χριστός υπέρ ημών απέθανε" (Ρωμ. 5:8). Συνήθως το κομποσκοίνι καταλήγει σε μία φούντα που ο σκοπός της είναι το σκούπισμα των δακρύων ("τοίς δάκρυσιν έβρεξέ μου τους πόδας" Λουκ. 7:44). Οι 33 κόμποι συμβολίζουν τα χρόνια του Ιησού Χριστού, οι 99 κόμποι είναι το 33 πολλαπλασιασμένο με τον αριθμό των τριών Προσώπων της Αγίας Τριάδας, και ο κάθε κόμπος αποτελείται από 9 πλεγμένους σταυρούς, που συμβολίζουν τα εννέα τάγματα των αγγέλων. Παρόλα αυτά, ενώ ο αριθμός σταυρών που αποτελούν τον κάθε κόμπο παραμένει πάντα σταθερός, ο αριθμός των κόμπων που αποτελούν το κομποσκοίνι εξαρτάται από τον αριθμό των προσευχών για τον οποίο θα χρησιμοποιηθεί. Πρέπει να σημειωθεί ότι υπάρχουν κομποσκοίνια φτιαγμένα και από άλλα υλικά εκτός του μαλλιού, π.χ. ακρυλικά, όπως και διαφόρων χρωμάτων.
'Aλλα είναι φτιαγμένα από χάνδρες ή με το αποξηραμένο λουλούδι ενός φυτού που λέγεται «Δάκρυ της Παναγίας». Το κομποσχοίνι είναι ένα από τα αντικείμενα που δίδονται σ' έναν Ορθόδοξο Μοναχό κατά την τελετή της κουράς του. Του δίνεται σαν το πνευματικό του ξίφος με το οποίο ως στρατιώτης του Χριστού, πρέπει να πολεμήσει κατά του νοητού εχθρού μας, του διαβόλου. Το ξίφος αυτό το χρησιμοποιεί επικαλούμενος το όνομα του Κυρίου και Θεού και Σωτήρος μας, Ιησού Χριστού, ικετεύοντας για το έλεός Του με την προσευχή στο όνομά Του.
Η ταπείνωση έχει μεγάλη δύναμη και διαλύει τον διάβολο
"Η ταπείνωση έχει μεγάλη δύναμη και διαλύει τον διάβολο. Είναι το πιο δυνατό σόκ για τον διάβολο. Όπου υπάρχει ταπείνωση, δεν έχει θέση ο διάβολος. Και όπου δεν υπάρχει διάβολος, επόμενο είναι να μην υπάρχουν πειρασμοί.
Μια φορά ένας
ασκητής ζόρισε ένα ταγκαλάκι να πή το "Άγιος ο Θεός ...;" Είπε το
ταγκαλάκι "Άγιος ο Θεός, άγιος ισχυρός, άγιος αθάνατος", "ελέησον ημάς"
δεν έλεγε. Πές: "ελέησον ημάς"! Τίποτε! Αν το έλεγε, θα γινόταν Άγγελος.
Όλα τα λέει το ταγκαλάκι, το "ελέησόν με" δεν το λέει, γιατί χρειάζεται
ταπείνωση. Το "ελέησον με" έχει ταπείνωση, και δέχεται η ψυχή το μεγάλο
έλεος του Θεού που ζητάει.
Ό,τι και να
κάνουμε, ταπείνωση-αγάπη-αρχοντιά χρειάζεται. Τα πράγματα είναι απλά.
Εμείς τα κάνουμε δύσκολα. Όσο μπορούμε, να κάνουμε ό,τι είναι δύσκολο
στον διάβολο και εύκολο στον άνθρωπο. Η αγάπη και η ταπείνωση είναι
δύσκολες στον διάβολο και εύκολες στον άνθρωπο. Και ένας φιλάσθενος που
δεν μπορεί να κάνει άσκηση, μπορεί να νικήση τον διάβολο με την
ταπείνωση.
Σε ένα λεπτό μέσα
μπορεί ο άνθρωπος να γίνη Άγγελος ή ταγκαλάκι. Πώς; Με την ταπείνωση ή
την υπερηφάνεια. Τι, μήπως χρειάσθηκαν ώρες γι ανα γίνη ο Εωσφόρος από
Άγγελος διάβολος; Μέσα σε δευτερόλεπτα έγινε. Ο ευκολώτερος τρόπος για
να σωθούμε, είναι η αγάπη και η ταπείνωση. Γι΄αυτό από την αγάπη και
τηνταπείνωση να αρχίσουμε και μετά να προχωρήσουμε στα άλλα.
Να εύχεσθε να
δίνουμε συνέχεια χαρά στον Χριστό και στενοχώρια στο ταγκαλάκι, μια που
του αρέσει η κόλαση και δεν θέλει να μετανοήσει".
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