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‘Unto the Healing of Soul’:A Survey of the Spiritual Nature and Healing of Modern Mental Illness https://orthochristian.com/160775.html Priest Alban Illingworth What is the solution to the sufferings of those who come to us with mental illness? Or, more properly, how can the Church help such people?

Fr. James Bernstein, author of “Surprised by Christ,” reposes in the Lord (+VIDEO) https://orthochristian.com/160743.html Archpriest James Bernstein, a noted priest and Orthodox author, reposed in the Lord yesterday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

All Things Work Together for Good for Those Who Love God https://orthochristian.com/160713.html The Sunday the First Ecumenical Council Archpriest Gregory Dyachenko There is only one thing we must fear above all: that through our unbelief or unrighteous life, we might lose the grace-filled help of the Lord.

St. Demetrios Press has printed 500 copies of "Prayers for Purity" which are available for purchase ($10 each; higher quality paper than the first printing). https://virginiamonks.org/products/prayers-for-purity-prayer-book?_pos=15&_sid=7398e4b7f&_ss=r Temptations assault us from every direction, especially the passion of lust and carnality, in this modern age. This small prayer rule for purity (taken from an out of print rule) is supplemented with additional prayers and quotes from the Holy Fathers and Holy Scripture on how to combat against these passions with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ. "Prayers for Purity" can be especially useful for both men, and women alike repenting from pornography addiction along with the other passions of the flesh. The Greek term for repentance, μετανοια, denotes a change of mind, a reorientation, a fundamental transformation of outlook, of man's vision of the world and of himself, and a new way of loving others and God. This prayer book is 5 x 7 inches in size, 42 pages in length and was printed in the United States. “Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.” - Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

Today marks the anniversary of the Glorification of St. John of Kronstadt. "Saint John of Kronstadt was a married priest, who lived with his wife in virginity. Through his untiring labours in his priestly duties and love for the poor and sinners, he was granted by our Lord great gifts of clairvoyance and miracle-working, to such a degree that in the last years of his life miracles of healings — both of body and of soul — were performed countless times each day through his prayers, often for people who had only written to him asking his help. During his lifetime he was known throughout Russia, as well as in the Western world. He has left us his diary My Life in Christ as a spiritual treasure for Christians of every age; simple in language, it expounds the deepest mysteries of our Faith with that wisdom which is given only to a heart purified by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Foreseeing as a true prophet the Revolution of 1917, he unsparingly rebuked the growing apostasy among the people; he foretold that the very name of Russia would be changed. As the darkness of unbelief grew thicker, he shone forth as a beacon of unquenchable piety, comforting the faithful through the many miracles that he worked and the fatherly love and simplicity with which he received all. Saint John reposed in peace in 1908." (Great Horologion)

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