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Last Sunday morning (the day before the feast of the Baptism of the Lord) I gave a sermon about Enlightenment, about water, about the physical properties of the origin of the Universe, about photons, plasma, and Consciousness. Brief summary: ✨ Part 1. The Bible says that on the first two days of Creation, God created Light and Water. And God said: let there be light. And there was light All creation began from these two ‘things’ and what modern astrophysicists have found is t

🔆 Since the New Year is the beginning of the days of the year, on this day one should implant in the soul such thoughts, feelings and dispositions that could direct all deeds throughout the year in a manner worthy of a Christian. We will understand this immediately as soon as we reflect on what the “New Year” means in spiritual life. In spiritual life, the New Year comes when a person living carelessly begins to strive for salvation and pleasing God. For when a person resolv

🔆 Today is the day of Saint Basil the Great (✝️379). Here are some of his teachings. On not completely trusting authorities: One should not completely surrender to these men (writers, scholars, teachers), as if to helmsmen, the rudder of one’s thoughts and follow them wherever they lead, but, borrowing from them what is useful, one must know what should be left behind.’ On the envious: ‘Dogs, when fed, become gentle; lions, when cared for, become tame, but the envious grow f