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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The absence of envy among the saints is a startling and wonderful phenomenon. Not only did the saints not allow envy to seize their hearts but, with all their might, labored to uplift their companions and to diminish themselves. On one occasion when St. Hilarion of Palestine visited St. Anthony in Egypt, St. Anthony exclaimed: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1345&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Of Things We Do Not Know&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A brother once went out on a pilgrimage from the monastery of Abba Poemen, and came to a hermit, who lived in love towards all and received many visitors. The brother told the hermit stories of Abba Poemen. And when he heard of Poemen’s strength of character, he longed to see him. The brother returned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Seminarian&#8217;s Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8220;Love Christ and put nothing before His Love&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet, He is still a friend and He shouts it out, &#8216;You&#8217;re my friends, don&#8217;t you understand that? We&#8217;re brothers. I don&#8217;t hold hell in my hands. I am not threatening you. I love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1333&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Have Faith is This&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To have faith is to die for Christ and for His commandments; to believe that this death brings life; to regard poverty as wealth, and lowliness and humiliation as true glory and honor; to believe that by not possessing anything one possesses everything (cf. 2 Cor. 6:9-10) or, rather, that not possessing anything is to possess the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1326&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel reading today (according to the New Calendar) was Luke 18:18-27, the story of the rich young man that asked Christ how he could inherit eternal life. Christ&#8217;s reply was that he needed to sell his belongings, give the money to the poor and then follow Him. The young man was saddened, because he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1320&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neglect of Prayer leads to the Way of Error</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The beginning of the nous&#8217;s darkening (once a sign of it is visible in the soul) is to be seen, first of all, in slothfulness with regard to the [church] services&#8217; and prayer. For except the soul first fall away from these, she cannot be led in the way of error; but as soon as she is deprived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1315&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path to Perdition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He who gives himself to desires and sensual pleasures and lives according to the world’s way will quickly be caught in the nets of sin. And sin, when once committed, is like fire put to straw, a stone rolling downhill, or a torrent eating away its banks. Such pleasures then bring complete perdition to him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1311&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to the Gifts of the Magi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The gifts that the magi brought to the Infant Christ were carefully preserved by the Mother of God. Before her blessed Dormition, she gave them to the Jerusalem Church. They were located there until the year 400. Later, the Byzantine Emperor Arcardius translated them to Constantinople and placed them in the Hagia Sophia church. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1302&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why do you worship Mary?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Andreas Blom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great little introduction to the Orthodox view of the &#8220;Theotokos,&#8221; i.e. the Virgin Mary. Bp. MICHAEL is my old dean at seminary, and he is doing a great job answering seven of the most common questions non-Orthodox may have about our devotion to the Mother of God. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreasblom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11882950&amp;post=1298&amp;subd=andreasblom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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