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– Old man, (They asked Saint Paisios) what causes whining and how you can avoid it;

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– It is due to bad mood, and one overcomes it with praise. Moaning begets moaning and praise begets praise. When one does not grumble about a difficulty that befalls him , but praise God, then the devil breaks out and goes to another who is moaning , to turn everything upside down for him. Why, as much as one moans, it is so rampant. Read more "
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The Sunday Gospel according to Mark (β´ 1-12)


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That time, Jesus entered Capernaum, and it was heard that he was at home. And many people came together, so that none of them could fit at the door; and he spoke the word to them. And they come to him, paralytic bearers, floating under four; and not being able to approach him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where it was, and mining spoils the tie, ᾿ ᾧ the paralytic was possessed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic: child, your sins are forgiven. And there were some of the scribes sitting there meditating in their hearts… more »
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Saints and Church: The bright clouds.

The bright clouds.

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[image: AgiaSkepi10]"Rejoice, world's broadest cloud" The holy hymn writer of Akathistos Ὕmnos stands with admiration and awe in front of the face of the Most Holy Theotokos. With a heart overflowing with gratitude to the sublime Daughter of Nazareth, he tries to present her virtues through the verses of his Gykyphthong hymns in the best way. Read more "

He has no right.

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[image: akathistos4]Hail, tyrant, inhuman executor of the principle, Hail, philanthropic Lord, I have shown Christ. *Prot. Themistocles Mourtzanou* People feel that we have some who act towards us tyrannically. They are all those who suppress our emotions, they do not work based on our own needs, but only based on their authority, as also those who claim to love us, but in practice they seem to love ourselves. Read more "

FREE SCHOOL LESSONS FOR STUDENTS AND ENGLISH FOR ADULTS AT THE CHURCH OF PANAGIAS IN OLD NAPOLI.

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*FREE* *SCHOOL LESSONS FOR STUDENTS* * AND* * ENGLISH FOR ADULTS* *In the Church of Our Lady of Old Nafplio.* Read more »
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Saints and Church: 7in March

On the 7th of March, Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos "of the Immaculate Guarantee" in Russia.

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The holy icon of the Virgin Mary "The Guaranty of Sinners" used to be located in the monastery of Ordisk in the province of Orlof, where she became famous for the miracles she performed. A copy of this holy icon was kept in the church of Saint Nicholas Hamonvik in Moscow. The icon every night radiated with divine light. The inscription that was engraved on the image is characteristic: "*I am the guarantee of sinners to the Son"*. The Icon of the Virgin is celebrating, also, at 29 May.

On the 7th of March, Saints Agathodoros, Ethereal, King, Hope, Eugene, Ephraim and Kapiton, the Holy Martyrs.

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On the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284 – 305 A.D.) The Patriarch of Jerusalem Hermon (300 – 314 A.D.) sent Bishop Saint Ephraim to Scythia and Bishop Saint Vasilea to Chersona, with the aim of spreading Christianity. The Holy King because he preached Christ, expelled by the idolaters. Read more "

On the 7th of March, Saint Paul the Holy.

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Saint Paul lived in the 4th century AD. And Haplos was called, because he was an illiterate farmer but at the same time humble and simple in morals. His wife was beautiful in form, but bad-tempered in the soul. She committed adultery with others, he was arrested one day by Osios, when he was returning from the fields. So the Holy One left his wife and children in the care of the adulterer and fled to the Egyptian desert, in the cell of Antony the Great, asking to become a monk. Read more "

On the 7th of March, Saint Lawrence of Megaron.

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Saint Lawrence, by world Lampros Kanellos, he was born in Megara of pious and God-loving parents, Dimitrios and Sunday. His profession was farmer and builder. He married Vasiliki and from his marriage he had two sons, John and Dimitrios. Some evening, in the village of Madron, he had a vision of the Mother of God, which suggested him to go to Salamis, where he found her holy icon and to restore her ruined temple. Read more "
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Saints and Church: 6in March

On the 6th of March 2015, B’ Stance of Salutations of the Virgin.

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*The shepherds heard, of the Angels praising, the incarnate presence of Christ, and acting like a shepherd, considering him as an unblemished lamb, grazed in the womb of Mary, When they praised, I said: Rejoice, Lamb and Shepherd Mother, hi, yard of logical sheep. Read more "

On the 6th of March, Synagogue of the Most Holy Theotokos of Czestokova in Russia.

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We do not have more details about the event.

On the 6th of March, Synagogue of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Heart in Seltomeza, Russia.

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On the 6th of March, Memorial of the Finding of the Holy Cross with the Holy Men under Saint Helen.

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Saint Helen (247 – 328 A.D.), mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine I the Great (280/288 – 337 A.D.), the year 326 A.D. went to Jerusalem, where *"with great effort and much expense and intimidation they saw the holy cross and the other two crosses of the robbers"*, as the Cypriot Chronographer Leontios Mahairas writes. Read more "

On the 6th of March, Saints Aetios, Vassoi, Theodore, Theophilus, Best, Constantine and others 36 Witnesses.

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The 42 Holy Martyrs lived during the reign of Theophilos the economachus (829 – 842 A.D.) and they were generals and brigade commanders, rich and noble. Saint Theophilos was a general and a patrician, ὀ Saint Aetius general, Agios Vassoi runs, Saint Theodore the Pioneer, Saint Callistos Turmarchis and Saint Constantine Drungarios. Read more "
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Saints and Church: 5in March

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon the Isauro.

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Saint Conon was born around the end of the 1st century AD. in Vadini, village of Isauria in Asia Minor and lived in the Apostolic times. His parents, Nestor and Nada were originally pagans. At a young age he became a Christian and when his parents pressured him to marry, agreed with his wife to live as brothers dedicated to God. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon the Gardener.

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The Holy Martyr Conon came from Nazareth of Galilee and lived during the reign of Decius (249 – 251 A.D.). After he came to the country of Pamphylia and chose a small place, he converted it into a garden by planting cabbages, from which he supplied himself and the poor foreigners with food. He was simple in character, so that even those who were going to arrest him and lead him to the lord, to be punished because he was a Christian, when they grabbed him in a playful way, and he gave them back the aspasmos. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon from Cyprus.

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Saint Conon lived around the 4th century AD. He was born in the Akama region of Cyprus, a few years after the death of Saint Hilarion the Great († 21 of October), from pious and God-loving parents. From childhood he loved temperance, exercise and virtue. So he decided to leave the world and settle in a cave far from his village. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Saint Mark of Athens.

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Saint Mark was an Athenian and lived in the 4th century AD. After he received a valuable education, he left Athens and went to Antioch, where he studied under Saint John Chrysostom. Later he became a monk and devoted himself to the study of the Holy Scriptures and reached the highest degree of virtue. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Collection of the Holy Relics of Saint Theodore the Prince and his sons David and Constantine.

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Their memory is honored in 19 September. We have no details about the fact of the collection of their Holy Relics.
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Saints and Church: 4in March

On the 4th of March, Saint Gerasimos the Jordanite.

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Saint Gerasimos the Jordanite was born in Lycia in the 5th century AD., from pious and humble parents and from infancy dedicated to God. At a young age he embraced the heresy of the Monophysites by being seduced by the followers of the heretical pseudo-patriarch Theodosius, of a fanatical Monophysite Egyptian monk, who during the absence of Patriarch Juvenalios (422 – 453 A.D.), helped by Queen Eudokia, managed to seize the patriarchal throne of Jerusalem and to carry out inexplicable cruelties for twenty months (451 – 453 A.D.). Read more "

On the 4th of March, Saint Gerasimos from Russia.

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Saint Gerasimos of Vologda was born in Russia in the 12th century AD. At first he was an ascetic at the monastery of Glussen and later at the monastery of Glink, near Kiev. In the 19 Augustus 1147 He came to the region of Vologda, where he continued his theophilous and ascetic life. Saint Gerasimos, slept in peace the year 1178.

On the 4th of March, Saint Daniel the Prince.

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Saint Daniel was born in the city of Vladimir in Russia in the year 1261. He was the fourth son of Saint Alexander Nefsky († 30 August and 23 November) and of Vassi. Two years after his birth, his father died. When Vassa's mother later fell asleep, she was buried in the church of the Nativity of Christ, the monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and the faithful called her "righteous". Read more "

On the 4th of March, Transfer of Holy Relics of Saint Vyacheslav Prince of Russia.

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Saint Viaseslav is honored in 28 September. The holy relics of Saint Viaseslav, prince of the Czech Republic, they moved from the temple of Agios Vitos († 15 June) in the place of his martyrdom.