#St. Paisios the Athonite
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“As health comes from bitter medicine, so too does salvation of souls come from bitter experience.”
“So in every tribulation, let us say, ‘Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation.’”
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Grumbling is caused by misery and it can be put aside by doxology (giving praise). Grumbling begets grumbling and doxology begets doxology.
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#The antidote for misery and grumbling is praise#doxology#Orthodox Christian#saints#St. Paisios the Athonite#like begets like
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Power of Sacramentals
LIGHT-A-CANDLE
When asked why we should light blessed candles, St. Paisios the Athonite replied:
“With a candle, we are seeking something from God. When you light it, you should say: ‘For those who are suffering in body and soul, for those who have the greatest need’, and among them is also the living and the reposed.
Do you know how much rest the departed sense when we light a candle for them? Thus, one has spiritual communication with the living and with the reposed.
The candle, in a few words, is an antenna that brings us into communication with God, with the sick, with the departed … “
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One young man said to me:
“Father, in the evening I watch movies, and then I go to pray. I read a bit from a book about Elder Paisios and I think I’m like him.”
This young man imagines himself as being like Elder Paisios, or Elder Porphyrios. The problem is that you’re not like them. Elder Paisios lived his life and found his path to God. And have you found your path to God? Therefore, there’s no greater mistake, no greater blasphemy against the Holy Spirit than the desire to copy someone else’s life. The mistake that often happens in Church circles is that we think that emulating the saints means copying their lives. No, you can’t do this, because as Elder Sophrony (Sakharov) says, you’ll look in vain for a repetition of the life of St. Nikodemos the Athonite or the life of St. Symeon the New Theologian in the life of another. Nothing will work out for you, because the Lord is a Person, and He creates a unique, personal, and inimitable relationship with every person.
The great Romanian ascetic Fr. Rafail Noica says, “Man is a path to God. Every man comes to God in his own way.” Because we’re inimitable, unique. And the Lord is looking for an encounter with us, not with someone else, not with our imaginary self.
-- Fr. Charalampos Papadopoulos
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St. Paisios the Athonite said:
“Abba Isaac’s book is worth as much as an entire library of the fathers… “
The Elder had the Saint’s Ascetical Homilies by his pillow, and he studied them constantly. For one six-year period, it was his only spiritual reading. He would take one line and call it to mind frequently throughout the day, studying it in a deep and practical way – “like animals chew over their food,” as he put it. As a blessing, he distributed a selection of the homilies in order to encourage their study. “Studying the Ascetical Homilies of Abba Isaac the Syrian,” he once wrote, “will help you a lot, because it helps us understand the deeper meaning of life. Whatever kind of complex a believer might have, big or small, the Homilies help him get rid of it. There are a lot of vitamins in Abba Isaac, so a little study transforms the soul.”
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos by Hieromonk Isaac, The Holy Monastery of Saint Arsenios the Cappadocian (2012), pp. 225-226.
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“The Beatitudes” of St. Paisios the Athonite
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A few weeks ago, I heard a youtuber make an interesting comment...
"Be watchful in yourself, and in others, of this extraordinary incapacity, to bear about having thoughts about your own thoughts."
--Vlad Vexler
I thought to myself - This sounds so Orthodox Christian. Specifically, this sounds like something I heard on the Lord of Spirits Podcast ages ago. I don't have a link at hand.
I began a rabbit trail that can be followed from that moment forward - Starting with St. Paisios the Athonite, and from there a book written by Kyriacos Markides about Father Maximos's teachings regarding Logismoi. (1, 2)
Heiromonk Gabriel, in this post on the Ancient Faith website, draws many tangled strands of this idea together for the modern reader.
Our inability to draw a distinction between our thoughts and ourselves has created the hellscape we call the modern world. Worse yet, if my thoughtscape is even slightly different then yours, that doesn't mean I'm a terrible person -
It merely means I'm not you.
It means that the demons I fight may be different then the demons you fight.
It also means that the demons we both fight might, at the end of the day, want us to fight each other.
Question the sources of your thoughts - I would argue that not all thoughts need be discarded. There are positive Holy Spirit, angelic thoughts. But question.
Always question.
Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy upon me,
A sinner.
#Logismoi#Fr. Maximos#St. Paisios#Vlad Vexler#Hieromonk Gabriel#Lord of Spirits Podcast#Ancient Faith Ministries#Remembering Sion
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On False Union With Rome & Fighting From Within - St. Paisios the Athonite
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"The only certainty is repentance and let every spiritual edifice be built upon it and let us continually seek repentance from God and nothing else except that."
- St. Paisios the Athonite
#protestant#orthodox#byzantine catholic#byzantine#Catholic#Unity#Repentance#Mercy#Christianity#jesus christ#St. Paisios the Athonite
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Is there an Orthodox Christian book club on Tumblr yet? If not, please reply if you’d like to start one!
Reply with your favorite Orthodox book / what you’re currently reading / what you’re planning on reading next!
My current favorite Orthodox book is My Elder Joseph the Hesychast. I’m currently reading St. Paisios the Athonite’s biography but I plan on reading St. Silouan the Athonite’s book next!
#St. Joseph the Hesychast#St. Silouan the Athonite#St. Paisios the Athonite#eastern orthodox#eastern orthodoxy#book club#bible#christian blog#christian books#russian orthodox#greek orthodox#serbian orthodox#mount athos#holy mountain#orthodox christianity#orthodox church#orthodoxy#christianity#orthodox book club
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Prophetic Consensus
GREAT DISORDER TO THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE!
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𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙬 5:16 “𝙇𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣.”
A tape-recorded prophecy of St. Paisios the Athonite that is now happening before our eyes: great sorrow, fighting among nations, mass migration, universal disorder, dissensions, hatred, envy, quarreling and wide-scale unbelief.
THE WIDE ROAD
“Oh, my brethren, in those times the love of many will cool and there will be a lot of sorrow, attacks among nations and emigration of people.
Great disorder! Waste! Negligence! Indifference to the salvation of the soul.
Unbelief, hatred, enmity, envy, quarrel will have the first place in people’s lives!
Almost all people will be willing to run to festive dinners, parties, revelries. They will run to enjoy earthly things.
People will hate one another and will be very sluggish. They will be sluggish in their Christian duties. They will be willing to judge the others! To the superlative degree!
THE NARROW ROAD
Let us stand with fear of God and be attentive in the fulfillment of our religious duties, fulfilling all the virtues…
Let us take care of filling our vessels with oil as long as our soul is still in the flesh.
Our candle must light up. It has to be lit all the time of our life. Let it be lit before we close our eyes. Let our candle be lit unceasingly!
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It is not freedom when we say to people that everything is permitted. That is slavery.
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Power of Sacramentals
LIGHT-A-CANDLE
When asked why we should light blessed candles, St. Paisios the Athonite replied:
“With a candle, we are seeking something from God. When you light it, you should say: ‘For those who are suffering in body and soul, for those who have the greatest need’, and among them is also the living and the reposed.
Do you know how much rest the departed sense when we light a candle for them? Thus, one has spiritual communication with the living and with the reposed.
The candle, in a few words, is an antenna that brings us into communication with God, with the sick, with the departed … “
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You should know that young people today who remain pure will be counted among the martyrs of our Church on the Day of Judgment.
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“God wants only one thing from us – humility, nothing else. He only wishes to help us through His Divine grace, which He gave us through Holy Baptism, even before we do anything, before we love Him, before our exploit, because of His inexpressible goodness. His Grace helps us love the Lord, to know Him. The Lord fulfills everything —we should only have humility, so as not to hinder the Divine grace, but let it act. We prevent it from acting, when we have no humility. Only one thing opposes Divine grace — pride.”
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