Dan Everiss
<oregdan@hotmail.com> | Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:06 PM |
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On Fasting
St. Paisius Velichkovsky
orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/stpaisy_fast.aspx
The third virtue is fasting. Fasting I call the eating of a ... Fasting once having entered into the soul, kills to the depths the sin which lies therein. Ch. VIII from Field ...
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From my Life in Christ, by St. John of Kronstadt
The Lord has created me,
and has
brought me from nonentity into being, and after I had fallen, hast
restored me through His sufferings and death; He has
cleansed me, a sinner, has made me His son by adoption; He has promised
me the inheritance of eternal bliss; He has enlightened me through the
light of His Gospel; He punishes and forgives me like a father; He
lights me with the sun; He gives me daily food
and drink; and above all he gives me His sweetest and life-giving food -
His Body and Blood; He has diffused air for me to breathe, and above
all He has poured upon me His Holy Spirit. He clothes me in beauteous
garments; above all, he inwardly clothes me
with Himself, as it is said: “For as many of you as have been baptized
into Christ have put on Christ” [Galatians 3:27]. He gives me rest in a
spacious and clean dwelling, and promises me an eternal, resplendent
abode in the heavens; he endows me with health:
above all, he gives me spiritual health in abundance, through prayer and
especially through the Holy Sacraments and other means. What shall I
render to Him for all this? What can I do for Him in return? I cannot do
anything, except to be faithful to Him with
all my might, through fulfilling His Commandments and by offering a firm
and unchanging resistance to sin and the Devil.
My Life in Christ, St. John of Kronstadt, page 154
https://books.google.com/books?id=g08rAAAAYAAJ
The Lord has created me, has brought me from nonentity into being, and after I had ... and by offering a firm and unchanging resistance to sin and the Devil.
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