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<h1>War</h1>
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<author>Joshua Seigler</author><date>June 21, 2025</date>
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Today the USA announced its bombing of three locations in Iran,
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including Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site, located under a mountain
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in Fordow. How far will things go?
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Here is the only way I know of to have peace: live every day as if
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tomorrow you will face death, where it will be too late for repentance,
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too late for a change of heart. As St. Isaac the Syrian says<sup
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class="footnote-ref"
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><a href="#footnote1">[1]</a
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>:
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Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help
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and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do
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not waste it in vain pursuits.
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Woe to us! We neither realize just how valuable our soul is, nor
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comprehend the type of life we have been called to lead. We place
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great significance on this present life, on illnesses, on the state of
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society, and on the sorrows, evils, and comforts of this world.
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However, blessed is the person, O Lord Jesus Christ, who receives help
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from You. You, O Lord, are the only powerful One. Turn our faces away
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from the desire for this world so that we may covet You alone. Grant
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us, O Lord, understanding, so that we may comprehend just how
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deceitful this present world is, and so that we do not believe in this
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shadow as if it were the truth.
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Seek the Lord, and be strengthened through hope. Seek His face through
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repentance, and you will be sanctified and cleansed from your sins, on
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account of the sanctity of His face. Hasten to the Lord, all of you
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who are guilty of sins, for He is able to forgive sins and overlook
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mistakes. For He made an oath and declared thus:
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>“I live, says the Lord. I do not desire the death of the sinner
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until he repents from his evil way and lives” (Ez. 13:23)</em
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>.
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May we not be tested beyond what we can bear, and may we have
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indestructible peace that is not of this world.
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Quote copied from
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href="https://www.stnektariosmonastery.org/repentance-and-confession/This%20Life%20Has%20Been%20Given%20to%20Us%20for%20Repentance%20-%20St.%20Isaac%20the%20Syrian.pdf"
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>St. Nectarios Monastery</a
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and
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