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The self-sufficient bread of roosters and liliestranslated

September 30, 2026 · 1 min read

Few, after all, are those who really care only for their daily bread, others by necessity due to circumstances and others by choice as the fruit of freedom. Necessarily, it is mainly done by the poor, who were born this way and remain the same due to origin or even social position, while freely those who do not isolate the meaning of life, giving priority to meeting the material needs connected to drinking, eating and clothing, but to the spiritual, the Kingdom of Heaven (Matth. 6, 33). By Apostolos Nikolaidis (Om.

Professor at the University of Athens, President of the Institute "Saint Maximus the Greek")

They are those who follow the tactic of Christ, who in the Sunday Prayer refers to the daily bread after he enjoins the spiritual things, as St. Chrysostom writes: See that in every case the Lord, after enjoining the spiritual things, then mentions the necessary things of the body, and not for everything, not only for the bread, nor again for tomorrow but for today. But these few follow, all the rest, rich and poor, belong to the category of those who are not satisfied with the absolute necessities but are anxious about most.

However, because…

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