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Can You Forgive Someone Else’s Enemies?

11/13/2018

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, March 11, 2015 I have written from time to time about the concept expressed in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, “Forgive everyone for everything.” It is a quote taken from the fictional Elder Zosima, but it is certainly a sentiment well within the bounds of Orthodox thought. I have recently been challenged in several places by people arguing that we cannot forgive those who have not sinned against us – that this right belongs

The Fourth Tuesday of Great Lent: When the Mind is Well Disposed & ‘Pray for One Another’

04/05/2016

When the Mind is Well Disposed So perhaps Abraham had some priest at his disposal? Some expert? Perhaps he had heard some teaching, some preaching, some wise counsel? But no written documents existed in those days, no Law, no Prophets, nothing of that sort at all. He successfully sailed a sea that was not favourable to him in the slightest. He traversed a road that was impassable, he who came from an idolatrous family. Nevertheless,

Shaping Life Spiritually (Part III)

01/20/2016

Along with continence of the tongue and belly, along with silence and fasting, humility is also described in many other sayings of the fathers as the royal road to God. For the monks humility is considered “the greatest virtue, for it lets a person rise up from the abyss, even when the sinner is like a demon.” The third practice consists in the interesting advice not to be sorry for something that is past. In

Father Maximos on the Sins of Parents

09/25/2012

After further discussion and clarification of the issues, Fr. Maximos signaled for the next question. A woman in her fifties, who introduced herself as Maria, a professional counselor, spoke in accented Greek. “Your Eminence, can you comment on what I used to hear my parents say when young, namely that in our religion it is believed that the sins of the parents torment their children?” “Did you hear this in church?” Fr. Maximos asked with

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Can You Forgive Someone Else’s Enemies?

The Fourth Tuesday of Great Lent: When the Mind is Well Disposed & ‘Pray for One Another’

Shaping Life Spiritually (Part III)

Father Maximos on the Sins of Parents

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