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Παρασκευή 1 Ιανουαρίου 2021

Take heart and have no fear...

 Dear Respectable and blessed children in Christ, Greetings,

Greetings,
Greetings,
And be blessed you all.
I would like to take the opportunity of the great twelve-day feasts and wish you all to have nice, blessed, bright, regenerated,inaugural,fruitful, creative and well-pleasing to God years.

And as the Magi, that is, the clergymen of the Persian religion offered distinguished gifts to the Born in Bethlehem, so may each of us offer the Lord faith, love, hope and may each one's hope be like the star of Bethlehem which led the Magi from the darkness of sin,irreverence and ignorance to the salvation, which they sighted as an infant.
In the same way, may your faith lead you, like another star.....and follow the way the star shows, which is the salvation.
And as Joseph and Virgin Mary, forty days later at......Candlemas,offered two pigeons or turtle doves as gifts in the temple , so may we offer the purity of our soul,body, faith and life and of our glorification and course in our lifetime
so that each one's soul can be an animate, living and high as heaven manger where the king of all will be reborn,and so that we can be united with Him who descended and was incarnated, till the end of the world, with Him who humbled Himself by concealing not only the Divinity into the humanity  but also His omnipotence into the seeming weakness of the  believed as infant, who  became a young child and who is the wholly perfect and eternal God .
He is the magnet and Bridegroom of our souls ,the Bridegroom of Church and He invites us all but we try to justify the unjustifiable usually making excuses for our sins, but we  should all remember that Adam was not led out of Paradise because of the sin but rather because of the excuse for the sin.
Below follows an extract from one of St . John Chrysostom's sermons along with a comment by the writer in order to have it as a piece of equipment in the course of our lifetime .
.........
.........
I your father,
I your spouse ,
I your home,
I your nurse,
I your root,
I your foundation,
Whatever you want, I will be.
You will lack nothing,
I will labour for you .
For I came to serve and not to be served. I will be your friend and your host,
your head and your brother, your sister and your mother.
I will be everything.
Only be intimate with me.
I will be poor for you, errant for you,
on the Cross for you,in the Tomb for you.
For you I was slapped,
For you I was spitted,
For you I was whipped,
For you I humbled myself ,
I left my heavenly Father and came down from Heaven for you, as a brother.
I loved you and you hated me.
I ran towards you to make you mine,
I united you with me.
Above I plead the Father for your sake on earth,
I became intercessor to the Father for your sake.
You are everything for Me,
brother, co-heir, friend and member.
What more do you want??!!!
.........
.........
.........
With this anguish and donation of Christ, we should become soil and ash,
zeroes :00000000000000 so that number one, The one, the ace,the first
will be placed in front of them and become 10000000000000000000000000
become more than value, for the beyond, for the eternity from temporality,
for the likeness of God from the image of God,
for life, from deadness, for the eternal.
BUT what do we reply?
Evangelically indeed, but :
....I have just bought a field....
....please justify me.....
( Luke:chapter 14,line 18)
....
And we project our...virtuously-disguised
passions, and from unrepentant we turn accusers.
But,Lord, You that endured everything in order to salvage humanity, raise our consciousness and bring us back to ourselves because we are beside ourselves.
Like the Prodigal son of the Parable we have many falls, so Lord, make it possible that the last fall will be onto Your Holy Feet.
God bless and make us see reason
because every one of us have always committed sins, nevertheless, we have never been far from You,and despite being immoral servants ,we all appeal to Your name and works .
And although we are all repeated sinners, we spread out our hands to You,
our God, and not to another.

One Parable of our Gospel, whose messages have always been everlasting,
unalterable and pertinent says :.....
......A farmer went out to sow his seed....
The farmer of our spiritual land came from Heaven to plant the seed, that is, His word, the salvation.
BUT!!!
.....Then came his enemy to sow weeds...
The evil came out in order to tease those who annoy and disturb him, namely, those who strive and struggle to proceed from the image to likeness of God and also in order to plant the weeds, that is, the dark thoughts, the doubts, the scandals, the unlawfulness,the illegitimacy, the atheism , the indisrespect and so on.
Beware, please!
In the Parable of the good sower, one part falls in the street, another part onto prickly bushes, another onto barren rough ground and another onto good and fertile soil which produces a crop but still, not equally  because some land yields thirty, some sixty and some a hundredfold what was sown.
This signifies the cultivation and fertility
of our souls, our disposition. He came to sow,not to plough. The cultivation is up to us, and depending on each of us, the talent multiplies.
So, in this Parable, when our soul is good and fruitful land,this soul is automatically fruitless for the evil.
Understand that having been spoken :
On the contrary, when the seed falls into the soul with the prickly bushes, which is not effective, this soul is not only immediately fruitful and fertile for the evil but also it is inspected by the evil.
Now, in the case that the evil comes out to sow weeds......
when his seed falls onto fertile land, this fruitful for the evil land is automatically fruitless for the Incarnated Redeemer, and if then again his seed falls onto  infertile for the evil land, this soul belongs to Christ and is fertile for Him.

There was once someone who had found a global map in the litter and was trying to put it together as it was in pieces.
Since he was not good at Geography, he could not do it right and he put one state of America into Europe,and the opposite.
So, there was an irregularity and shapelessness .
At that moment, someone of his acquaintance was passing by and after asking him what he was doing, he found out about his unsuccessful attempt to arrange the map in the right order, and says to him :
"....I happen to have the same map ,so watch what you can do .
At the back of the map there is a picture of a man having the entire body.
Reverse the pieces of the map, try to put the parts of the human body together and since we know what it looks like and we don't put a hand in place of a leg, when you complete it, the map will have been correctly assembled on the other side!!!!!!!!
How wise , simple and meaningful!
What a move!
What a simplicity!
Indeed, the solution to his drama and to his difficulty lay in that simple thing.
What I mean by this is:

We have been living in an era when everything has been dissipated . The harmony ,which the Maker laid on our course of life , has been lost and as St . Chrysostom says ,everything has been mixed.
We have lost the ideals, or rather, we sold them like  Esau.....for.....a mess of pottage . We lost the birthright and now the compound interests come.
We lost number one and only zero is left. From 10 to 0.
Our native country is experiencing the greatest treason and impunity in its history.
We have been jealous of the fury of Sodoma but let us see now that......Fire Will Fall From Heaven.
Do not fear, though.
Let's take the example of the map.
We cannot assemble it and do it right,
but if we reverse the map, we can try each of us separately and all together to mend......the man......mend ourselves.
Then, automatically, the back part will be mended, that is, our homeland.
How encouraging!
How real  !
How pertinent !
How hopeful!
Don't you think it is worth the effort?
Won't we make the start?
Come, my children, ahead with the cross,
with faith, love and determination to give the battle.
Either [with] this [your shield] or on it :
Victory or Death .
A Bloodless sacrifice, a sure victory, a certain outcome.
So come on, let's begin the...arrangement of our members from today all together and we will have the divine blessing and grace in everything we do for the glorification of our Trinitarian God, with the intercessions and leading of Mother of God , Most Blessed among women, who is the hope of our souls, Amen.
God be with you, with the blessings and love in Christ,
your father, father Apostolos
God be with you .

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