The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

tito, It's good you CARE about this topic ! Too few people DO ! It's always been like that. Think of how the Optina Elders had to remind countless pilgrims and disciples of their unconfessed sins ! I wrote somewhere here that the Optina Elders as a group specialized in exposing sins that supplicant...

I spoke these vain words or evoked the wrath of God by my unseemly words; Paying no great attention to them did not confess them to my spiritual father, and never repented. ... I occasionally lied in matters of small importance—something that I did not even consider sinful; Second I St Theodoras Ae...

Thank you Father! This has indeed been bothering me...

Now then, I have seen it in myself. When I am inclined to judge someone, my face becomes a certain way... May God have mercy on me!

> Only occasionally, when I heard how other people condemn, malign, or laugh, did I too happen to agree with them to some extent in thought, or even, in my carelessness, add my word to what they were saying; but even then I instantly caught myself and stopped. But here I was held responsible even fo...

Priest Antonios wrote: ↑Thu 4 January 2024 7:53 pm

I believe the Metropolia had work in Cuba. Not sure where that stands. As you know, not exactly a safe environment.

Yes, it must be terribly difficult to be genuine Orthodox in Cuba. The ROCOR-MP is Communist Cuba must have there the advantage, alongside Papists and Protestants.

I grew up in Puerto Rico all my life- and most Christians there are Papist or Protestant. In recent years, ecumenism, and the denominations most riddled with Prelest (Pentecostalists, Methodists, those with female pastors) have appeared more to deceive people. At the same time, a small Orthodox pres...