This homily was given by Metr. Neophytos of Morphou on March 28, 2015, in the hall of the church of the Apostle Barnabas in Dasoupolis, Nicosia - Cyprus

"And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? And not to be set on a candlestick?" - Mark 4:21

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HYPOTHESIS 14:

That the ascetic struggler, even when he is physically ill, should have no desire whatsoever for pleasure or relax his discipline, or place any hope of a cure in medical treatment, but in God, by Whose dispensation illnesses also come to us.

A. From the Life of St. Pachomios

B. From the Life of St. Synkletike

C. From the Life of St. Luke of Hellas

D. From St. Maximos

E. From the Gerontikon

F. From St. Ephraim

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HYPOTHESIS 13:

That we must courageously resist listlessness and demonic dejection, and concerning patience.

A. From the Life of St. Synlketike

B. From Antiochos (author of the Pandects)

C. From Abba Isaiah the Anchorite

D. From St. Mark

E. From Abba Cassian

F. From St. Maximos

G. From the Gerontikon

H. From St. Ephraim

I. From St. Isaac

J. From the Gerontikon

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HYPOTHESIS 12:

That monastics and devout lay people who have received Divine knowledge are subjected to great chastisements even for minor sins.

A. From the Narrative of the Travels of St. John the Theologian

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HYPOTHESIS 11:

That for a faithful Christian it is hazardous to transgress even a single commandment, since he has received from God the ability to fulfill them all; and that a small evil is very harmful.

A. From the Life of St Pachomios

B. From the Gerontikon

C. From St. Isaiah

D. From Abba Mark

E. From St. Diadochos

F. From St. Maximos

G. From Abba Isaac

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HYPOTHESIS 10 :

That we should examine ourselves, so as to correct our mistakes and increase our good deeds.

A. From the Life of St. Synkletike

B. From the Gerontikon

C. From Abba Isaiah

D. From St. Ephraim

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HYPOTHESIS 9:

That we should always be attentive and guard ourselves on all sides, since the Enemy assails us from all sides and through every means.

A. From the Life of St. Synkletike

B. From the Gerontikon

C. From Palladios

D. From St. Maximos

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HYPOTHESIS 8:

That the conscience is a great gift of God to us and is very beneficial to him who listens to it.

A. From the Gerontikon

B. From St. Isaiah the Anchorite

C. From St. Mark

D. From St. Maximos

HYPOTHESIS 7:

That the believer should do what he does with a good, and not with a bad, conscience; for God judges the deeds of each man, not according to appearance, but according to the intention of the doer.

A. From St. Gregory the Dialogist

B. From St. Isaac

HYPOTHESIS 6:

That those who despise and deride unpretentious and self-abasing people sin very gravely.

A. From the Life of St. Gregory the Wonderworker

B. From St. Ephraim