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Archangel Michael Logo

A collection of scriptural meditations from Saints and Fathers of the Church.

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

A man who submits to the statutes of the fathers, reaches his goal before he has made a single step.

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Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

Do not seek to find the cause of temptations or whence they come; only pray to suffer them with gratitude.

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Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

BROTHER: Who is the true monk? OLD MAN: He who makes his word manifest in deeds, and bears his passion with patient endurance; with such a man life is found, and the knowledge of the spirit dwells in him.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

Self-control and strenuous effort curb desire; stillness and intense longing for God wither it.

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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