In the previous section, we discussed the forgiveness of sins, but we did not explain what forgiveness itself is, what it means to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. The word “forgiveness” in our everyday use has lost its original meaning, which the Church imbues in it, and from something used to describe the hypostatic,…

In the current era, we have almost lost the culture and understanding of the Sacrament of Confession. At confession, we come to report our “feats,” our sins. Often, we boast, exalt, and pride ourselves with empty, senseless words, blaspheming the holy sacrament without grasping its essence. I have often seen (the priest writes) how, after…

Ninety-nine percent of the reasons for what is currently happening in each person’s life are in the future, not the past (as we will discuss in detail in the second part about divine providence, we will see that all 100% of the present is a consequence of the future. We are not talking about fate,…

(Some thoughts for reflection – see Part II)** (This section fully belongs organically to the second part, but I was compelled to squeeze some of it into this part because it is unknown when the second part will come into being. I met a man who offered to accompany me to the hospital to visit…

Often, when reading the Holy Scriptures, we do not understand what we are doing, what Holy Scripture is, what the purpose of its writing is, and what the purpose of our reading the Holy Books is. Without answers to these seemingly unnecessary, rhetorical questions, reading the Bible, the works of the Holy Fathers, and Orthodox…

The reader should draw their own conclusions. We have sometimes assisted, given hints, but each person must live their own life, taste and see how good the Lord is on their own. To make it easier for them, we will try to accompany them until they can go on their own, until they say, ‘We…