http://orthochristian.com/ Orthochristian.com - Orthodox Christianity ru-ru Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:40:19 +0300 https://orthochristian.com/178232.html Rev. Dr. Oliver Subotic

It makes no difference whether a man carries in his bag a single stone weighing one hundred kilograms, or a thousand pebbles weighing one hundred grams each: on his back he will be carrying the same weight.
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We always ask the saint to remain prayerfully in our church and help us comfort the sick.
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Here the analogy with medicine is almost complete, with the priest being only a servant of the True Physician of soul and body—the Lord Jesus Christ. It is therefore very important to find a priest who is spiritually experienced, so that he may adequately treat the wounds of our soul.
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Repentance is not merely a matter of feeling sorry for having committed a sin. True repentance is precisely what the original word signifies—a change of mind—meaning the acquisition of an entirely new way of thinking and acting.
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The saints’ victory does not consist in never having fallen, but in steadfastly pressing toward the goal set before them—the Kingdom of Heaven—and remaining faithful to God until the end.
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From an Orthodox point of view, it’s important to see that behind these external outbursts, there’s almost always internal disorder in the soul.
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The key issue is our encounter with God in eternity—those whose souls are healthy will experience that encounter as eternal light, while those whose souls are sick will experience it as eternal darkness.
]]> Articles 39e82600a17f191bb854af5f22644e20 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:11:11 +0300 https://orthochristian.com/178124.html Natalia Vashchina

As always, the testimony given during the interrogation was twisted around and presented in an absolutely different light. It sounded as if it was not the Bolsheviks who had robbed the Valaam Monastery, but the monks, who “conducted anti-Soviet activities in an illegal apartment monastery and spread various provocative rumors.”
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The beauty of our faith is that God gives each one of us exactly what we need to grow and become saintly.
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Saints are people who lived and still live close to us, but unlike many of us, they are guided neither by the spirit of the modern world, nor by changing public opinion, nor by popular views or customs, but solely by the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of the Gospel, and the Word of God.
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