Encyclical

 1 Christmas2000              |       uncertain search for some spiritual source of satisfaction and
 2 Christmas2000              |         is only in this supreme spiritual space that all the deepest
 3 Christmas2000              |         wine-skins, full of new spiritual wine. From this, the new
 4 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |        body from our bodily and spiritual passions.~True repentance
 5 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |         foundation of a correct spiritual life. Thus the restoration
 6 HolyAndGreatLent2000       |       the Lord, to cover up our spiritual condition and present ourselves
 7 Christmas1999              |      the fact that the internal spiritual environment of the conscience
 8 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |        for us to start upon the spiritual contest and to gain the
 9 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |         of virtues with joy and spiritual zeal. We are called to lay
10 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |      the boundaries of Orthodox spiritual life. It signifies a failing
11 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |        Church define and as our spiritual Fathers advise. Through
12 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |    serious consequences for the spiritual life. All of us struggle
13 Christmas1998              |         to arrive at a point of spiritual rest, to be reborn from
14 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|     godly greeting replete with spiritual joy. For what we are observing
15 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|       close to his Geronta, his spiritual elder, for four years. His
16 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|      elder, for four years. His spiritual ascetic discipline was prolonged
17 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|       find love everywhere. His spiritual children found him, even
18 Pascha1998                 |    thousand years of continuous spiritual life. All of these people,
19 Pascha1998                 |       commune of the sacred and spiritual Altar, they receive the
20 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |       Great Lent.~Herein is the spiritual wealth of our Orthodox Church
21 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |         start the right path of spiritual askesis, she opens the period
22 HolyAndGreatLent1997       | opportunities for salvation and spiritual joy.~He who loves only self
23 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |         what streams of joy and spiritual gladness he who repents