Activités de l'Eglise Syro-Orthodoxe-Francophone Mar Thoma en France avec ses Paroisses et ses horaires de Messes, ses permanences catéchétiques, les permanences d'un prêtre exorciste, les Aumôneries (Africaines, Antillaises, des "Chrétiens de St Thomas"...)
'When God wishes to take pity on a soul and it rebels, not bearing anything and doing its own will, he then allows it to suffer that which it does not want, in order that it may seek him again.' (Abba Isaiah) Évangile de Jésus Christ selon saint Luc 12,13-21....
Lire la suiteNuit sans clarté, celle des incroyants, / pour les fidèles illumination dans les délices de Vos divines paroles, ô Christ: / c'est pourquoi je veille devant Vous / et je chante Votre divinité. Et toi, Mère de Miséricorde, prie le Verbe de toute bonté...
Lire la suiteReveal yourself to the Lord in your mind. 'For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart' (1 Sam. 16:7).' (St. Mark the Ascetic) Première lettre de saint Pierre Apôtre 5,1-4.10-11. Mes bien-aimés, j'exhorte les anciens qui sont...
Lire la suiteOne should note that God foreknows all things but that He does not predestine them all. Thus He foreknows the things that depend on us, but He does not predestine them - because neither does He will evil to be done nor does He force virtue. And so, predestination...
Lire la suiteSelf-knowledge is a clear-eyed notion of one’s own spiritual advance. It is also an unwavering remembrance of one’s slightest sins. Première lettre de saint Paul Apôtre à Timothée 5,3-10. Mon bien-aimé, honorez les veuves, les vraies veuves. Que si une...
Lire la suiteSt. Cyprian of Carthage wrote: "Those not in the Church of Christ cannot rightly be called 'Christian.' Nor can you have God as Father if you do not have the Church as Mother. Therefore, without the Church there is no salvation." Fr. Georges Florovsky...
Lire la suite"Blessed is the man who knows his own weakness, because this knowledge becomes to him the foundation, root, and beginning of all goodness. For whenever a man learns and truly perceives his own weakness, at that moment he contracts his soul on every side...
Lire la suiteWhen there is confusion in the soul, of whatever kind, do not at such a time trust its judgment; for what the soul tells you then will not be the truth. (St Theophan the Recluse, The Art of Prayer) Livre d'Isaïe 66,12-14. Ainsi parle le Seigneur : je...
Lire la suiteJust as an evil man is somewhat double, one thing outwardly and another inwardly, so a simple person is not something double, but something of a unity. Lettre de saint Paul Apôtre aux Romains 15,13-19. Frères, que le Dieu de l'espérance vous remplisse...
Lire la suiteEven if you are not what you should be, you should not despair. It is bad enough that you have sinned- why in addition do you wrong God by regarding him in your ignorance as powerless? Is he, who for your sake created the great universe that you behold,...
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