The miraculous ribbon of the Holy Belt
The ribbon, if it has the same dimensions as the part of the Holy Belt kept in the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi, will follow a centuries-old Byzantine tradition, according to which fabric ribbons with the exact same dimensions of sacred objects or even places (usually from the Holy Land) constituted pilgrimage relics ("holy measuring tapes").
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Nothing else can help and calm anger and all passions as much as love for God and all fellow human beings. With love you more easily win a fight than with others.
Saint Ephraim of Katounakiotis
Saint Ephraim of Katounakiotis
If a person gets used to saying the wish every day, even if it's just a little bit, as much as they can, their heart slowly becomes sweeter and they wait for that time to come. And when the heart becomes sweeter, one naturally asks for more.
Meekness, as a characteristic, is a product of the energy of the Holy Spirit. Its source and root is humility. This too is a divine characteristic, since our Lord, who is “humble in heart,” is at the same time also meek, since he emphasizes meekness more than humility. The body is humility and the shadow of the body is meekness. It has never been heard of a humble person being angry or an angry person being humble.
The purification of the heart from passions must become the main priority in a person's life. In this struggle, he does not try to conform to some externally moral life, but struggles in a Christ-centered way and thinking. and difficult, I say that it is pleasant and easy, but it requires two conditions: humility and love. If the grace of God comes, everyone and everything changes, but come on, for it to come, we first need to humble ourselves! All that is needed is for a person to love Christ and all problems are sorted out.