{"id":6505,"date":"2022-11-30T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:45:44","slug":"our-monastery-november-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/2022\/11\/our-monastery-november-december-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Monastery \u2013 November\/December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6505\" class=\"elementor elementor-6505\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a20222 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7a20222\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b120cc4\" data-id=\"b120cc4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6478db5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6478db5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Christ is Born! <\/strong>We greet you with a heart full of gratitude, first toward God and second toward each one of you, for the bountiful gifts that we have received during this past year. Glory to God for all things! We wish that you may celebrate this holiday season in peace, with reconciliation and love. During these days, may each of you find the path that leads to the healing of your hearts from whatever wound may have afflicted them this year. And thus healed, may we all step together into the New Year with our Lord\u2019s blessing and with boundless trust in His omnipotence.<\/p>\n<p>It happened that this year, the Gospel reading on Tuesday, which marked the Forefeast of the Nativity of our Lord, was as follows: \u201cThen He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, \u2018It is written, \u201cMy house is a house of prayer,\u201d but you have made it a den of thieves\u2026\u2019\u201d (Luke 19:45-46). Maybe this is not by chance. In these days, during which each of us is trying to make our heart into a manger that can receive Christ, it is good to recall that our heart is a temple of the Holy Spirit (cf. 1 Corinthians 6:19), a house of prayer. So, if we discover something within it other than a house of prayer, then may we imitate our Lord by driving out all the \u201cmoney changers\u201d, all the intruders. How? With the \u201cwhip\u201d which is the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, the sinner. By doing this every day, we will fulfill the word of the Psalmist: \u201cIn the morning I slew all the sinners of the land, to consume from the city of the Lord (from my heart) all the workers of lawlessness\u201d (Psalm 100:10).<\/p>\n<p>We entreat our merciful Savior that during these days, He may grant us to taste of the joy of His Incarnation, of His dwelling among us, and no one take this joy away from us (cf. John 16:22).<\/p>\n\n<strong>Icons.<\/strong> With the blessing of His Eminence Nicolae, printed icons are mounted to wood in our monastery.\n\n<p><strong>Pure beeswax candles.<\/strong> Pure beeswax candles are also made in our monastery to adorn the prayer of every Christian. 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