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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

He stands, then - but not alone, for before Him go angels, saying: 'Lift up the gates, O ye the princes.' What gates? Even those of which the Psalmist sings in another place also: 'Open to me the gates of righteousness.' Open, then, thy gates to Christ, that He may come into thee - open the gates of righteousness, the gates of chastity, the gates of courage and wisdom. Believe the message of the angels: 'Be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in, the Lord of Sabaoth.'

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

Observe at the same time that the mystery consists in the very office of humility, for Christ says: 'If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; how much more ought you to wash one another's feet.' For, since the Author of Salvation Himself redeemed us through His obedience, how much more ought we His servants to offer the service of our humility and obedience.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

If the soul is vigilant and withdraws from all distraction and abandons its own will, then the spirit of God invades it and it can conceive because it is free to do so.

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

May Peter, who wept so efficaciously for himself, weep for us and turn towards us Christ's benignant countenance.

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