Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Headaches because of Unconfessed Sin

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Elder Paisios the Athonite. "Words". Vol. 3. Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain (1924 – 12.7.1994) One time, a middle-aged ...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Love Manifested itself in the Desire to Take on the Illness of Another Person

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Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Question to the priest. March 23, 2016. Question: Tatiana, from Naberezhnye Chelny town Good afternoon, f...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

An Elderly Woman is Ashamed to Confess to a Young Priest

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Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov (1951-21.10.2020) Questions to Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov on the air of the Radonezh radio. Question: I...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

The Hermit could not Distinguish his Own Thoughts from those of the Enemy

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St. Leo of Optina (1768 - 1841) Elder Fr. Leonid answering questions from Alexey Polikarpovich Bochkov, later Antony, Hegumen of the Ch...

Those who Work for any Sin Cannot Have True Faith

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St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724-1783) Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk. "On True Christianity". Volume 2. I am not here talking to you, ...

The Man did not Hope for God, but then He Came to His Senses

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St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "Patericon". The elders told the following about a ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

A Monk Had Untrue Tears

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Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters".   St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) Letter 461. A brother ...

When Vainglory is Increased, it Leads to Pride

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  St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters". Letter 460. Question: “...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Abomination for God is the Sacrifice Brought by a Man with Self-assurance and Proud Arrogance

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St Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "On Prelest". On Loving God. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) Love God in the way that H...

Falling into Fornication Happens to a Monk for Disobedience and Unconfessed Sins

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Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin) Archimandrite Raphael. "From time to eternity. Sayings of the Fathers". Hieromonk Vasily (Pi...

Father John did not Advise Family People to Introduce Elements of Monasticism into their Lives

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Elder John (Krestiankin) (1910 - 5.2.2006) From the memoirs about Archimandrite John (Krestiankin). Alevtina recalls. And another lett...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

If we do not See Pride in Ourselves, this is a Sign that we Have it

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Saint Macarius of Optina (1788-1860) Venerable Macarius of Optina. "Edifying Teachings" (from letters). You also write that ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Woman Thinking that Healing and Biolocation Come from God

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Question to a priest. Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Question: Anastasia Hello dear Father, I have a question that has been bothering m...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Which Thoughts Should Be Confessed

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Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters".   St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) LETTER 165 Question fr...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

How Love to Neighbor is Manifested

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Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters".   St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) LETTER 339 Anot...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Elder Silouan about Discretion (Discernment)

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Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov). "Saint Silouan, the Athonite". Part II. Works of Elder Silouan Saint Silouan the Athonite (...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

A Woman Turned to a Clairvoyant for Advice

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Hegumen Nektariy (Morozov) Question to the priest. This spring, on the advice of a friend, I turned to a clairvoyant woman. My mental...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Elder Joseph the Hesychast about Concealment

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Elder Joseph the Hesychast. "Monastic wisdom". From letter 3. Elder Joseph the Hesychast (1897 - 1959) And so, my child, fo...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

One Should not Listen to the Demons Even if They Say Something that Resembles the Truth

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Apophthegmata Patrum. Chapter 10. About discretion. One brother lived in silence, and the demons in the form of angels sought to seduce him...
Friday, April 14, 2023

The Gospel Rejects Love Dependent on Hot-bloodedness, on the Feelings of the Carnal Heart

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St Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "On Prelest". On Loving One's Neighbour. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) What can...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The Ascetic Wanted a Demon to Enter into him from a Possessed

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Apophthegmata patrum. 16. The ascetic, seeing a certain demon possessed who could not fast, being moved by love for God and seeking not his...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Unconfessed Sins Can Cause Suffering and Demonic Attacks

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Elder Joseph the Hesychast (1897 - 1959) Elder Joseph the Hesychast. "Monastic wisdom". From letter 16. As for the brother you...
Monday, April 10, 2023

The Elder Helped a Man to Make His Confession

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From a conversation with Elder Mikhail (Pitkevitch). Elder Mikhail (Pitkevitch) (1877-1962) The elder said, ‘An elderly lady came to vi...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

A Pentecostal Had a False Gift of Interpreting Tongues

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Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev. "A Non-Boring Life of an Orthodox Missionary". Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev Exposure Once, when I st...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Hieromonk Read the Bible too Much and Fell into Delusion

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St. Ambrose of Optina (1812-1891) From the letter of St. Ambrose of Optina (letter 178) In our monastery, the eighty-year-old hieromon...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Appearance of Light, Voice or Some Fiery Form Should Be Accepted in No Way

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St Diadochos of Photiki (~400 - ~486) St Diadochos of Photiki. "On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination. One Hundred Texts"....
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Unwillingness to Lose "Gifts" is a Sign of a False Healer

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Hieromonk Anatoly (Berestov). "Orthodox sorcerers" – who are they?" Hieromonk Anatoly (Berestov) Repentance is extremely...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Considering oneself Worthy of God is a Demonic Delusion

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St Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "On Prelest". Seeing One's Sin. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) That frightening ti...
Friday, March 24, 2023

False Interpretation of the Apocalypse

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Priest Dionysius Tatsis Sayings of the Ascetics of Greece. Compiled by Priest Dionysius Tatsis. In a monastery on the island of Patmos,...

Saint Theophan the Recluse on Discernment

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Selected psalms interpreted by Saint Theophan the Recluse. St. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894) The truth of God is the commandments: t...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

St Leo Understood that the “Foreseeing” Monk is in a Devilish Delusion

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From the Life of St Leo of Optina   Elder Leo of Optina (1768 - 1841) As an example of a spiritual discernment, the following story is g...

The Beginning of Love for Enemies - at Least do them no Harm

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Elder John (Krestiankin) (1910 - 5.2.2006) "Do Love the Love. Memories of the Spiritual Father - Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)...

Elder Ephraim on Spiritual Delusion (video)

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How we can distinguish when the Devil wants to deceive us? (at 52:17) Whenever the devil tries to trick you to things that maybe that was...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

The One not Asking for Advice or not Heeding the Advice Falls into Delusion

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Elder Joseph the Hesychast (1897 - 1959) Elder Joseph the Hesychast. "Monastic wisdom". From the preface to the book, written ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Obedience and Choosing of the Spiritual Guide

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Prof. Nikolay Pestov. “Way to True Joy”. Professor N.E. Pestov (1892-14.1.1982) “Christ humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Concealing the Sins and Aerial Tollhouses

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Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev. “An exam without the right to re-sit it: how can we pass the toll houses”. Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev There a...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Old Lady Heals with Prayers

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Question from a reader of Foma Magazine: At my neighborhood there is an old lady who treats children (hernia, fright, hiccups, joints, sore...

Demonic Visions of Elder Basiliscus

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Lives of Russian ascetics of 18 th -19 th centuries. March. The ascetic Elder Basiliscus. At this time, a god-loving noble man saw the as...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Humility does not Consider itself to be Humble

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St Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "On prelest". On true and false humble-mindedness. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) ...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Danger of Prelest

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Hieromartyr Bishop Arsenius (Zhadanovsky). "Spiritual Diary". Hieromartyr Bishop Arsenius (Zhadanovsky) (1874- 27.9.1937) Not...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

St Diadochos on Obedience

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St Diadochos of Photiki. "On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination One Hundred Texts". 41. It is well known that obedience is th...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Elder John Guides about Jesus Prayer

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Letters of Valaam elder John (Alexeev). Letter 164. Schema-hegumen John (Alexeev) New Valamo 23.4.1956 Honorable Inok Fr… You write ...