#Sinner 4/5

Jun 22, 20192 min read

Addition to the Second Kneeling Prayer

This is a vocal prayer, which is added in after the reading of the Second Kneeling Prayer on Pentecost. It, too, gives us much to...

Jun 7, 20192 min read

God Helps Get Rid of Self-Indulgence

"In order to awaken a sinner from his sleep, the divine saving-grace directs all its power towards the destruction of the main support...

May 10, 20191 min read

Awakening to the One, True Order

"When a grace-given awakening takes place in the consciousness of a man... there is an instantaneous destruction of the whole order of...

Apr 24, 20191 min read

Help Us to Put Away the Old Self

We pray, Most Holy Trinity, that you help us to die to our old self. Help us to escape from desperation, desolation, dysfunction, sin,...

Apr 17, 20191 min read

Are You Dead to Everything Spiritual?

"If one looks at a sinner's inward disposition and outward state then it will be found that sometimes he knows much, but is blind with...

Apr 12, 20191 min read

Worldliness is a Tomb We Create

"Being actively united with this entire world, every sinner falls into its broad nets, wraps himself in them, and is so deeply buried...

Apr 10, 20191 min read

Others Increase Our Sin

"...this whirling is intensified and complicated a thousand times because the sinner is not alone. There is a whole world full of other...

Apr 5, 20191 min read

Observe Yourself for a Day

"So, a sinner persists incessantly in his troubles and anxieties, and in his search for excessive knowledge, many possessions, and...

Mar 27, 20191 min read

Thirsty, Anxious, and Troubled

"He has fallen away from God, who is the fullness of everything. He is empty in himself. The only thing that remains is to spread himself...

Mar 25, 20191 min read

The Bottomless Abyss

"A man becomes a bottomless abyss; he tries hard to fill this abyss, but he cannot. That is why for his whole life he is in sweat, toil,...

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