Showing posts with label Saint Maximos the Confessor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Maximos the Confessor. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

The appropriate organs to receive the divine gifts...

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By Saint Maximos the Confessor  The intellect is the organ of wisdom, whereas the reason is that of knowledge. The natural, internal...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

St. Maximos the Confessor: There are three things which produce love of material wealth . . .

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“It is not so much because of need that gold has become an object of desire among men, as because of the power it gives most people...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

St. Maximus the Confessor-On The Theotokos" Our Champion Leader"..

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  St. Maximus the Confessor ca. 580-662 The holy Theotokos was always a participant and a leader in every good thing. After the Asc...
Friday, 2 October 2015

St. Maximos the Confessor: Sometimes men are tested by pleasure, sometimes by distress . . .

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“Sometimes men are tested by pleasure, sometimes by distress or by physical suffering. By means of His prescriptions the Physician o...
Saturday, 25 July 2015

St. Maximus the Confessor-HE DIVIDED WISELY THE AGES

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HE WHO brought the whole world into existence, visible and invisible, according to the sole urge of His will,...
Monday, 11 May 2015

A Spiritual Interpretation of Jacob's Well by St. Maximus the Confessor

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By St. Maximus the Confessor Jacob's well is Scripture. The water is the spiritual knowledge found in Scripture. The depth of the...
Saturday, 8 November 2014

St. Maximos the Confessor: The sacred Scripture, taken as a whole, is like a human being . . .

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The sacred Scripture, taken as a whole, is like a human being.  The Old Testament is the body and the New is the soul, the meaning it c...