Posted By Macedon on September 27, 2024
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My Dears, when an army wins, it displays and raises its flag as a sign of joy and a sign of its victory. The people of Israel, in the time of the Old Testament, were the only guardians of the God-revealed faith, but many times were subjected to temptations (trials) because of their corporal-passions, which led them to deviate from the truth.
One of their greater temptations (tribulations) was the Egyptian slavery, when the descendants of Jacob were forced to suffer for five hundred years in a foreign land. But God heard the prayer of His people, and chose the prophet Moses, one of the greatest most righteous people of the Old Testament, to lead Israel to the land of their fathers, to the inheritance of the forefather Abraham. Supported by the great power from above, Moses succeeded in leading the people out of Egypt and, after forty years of wandering in the desert, brought them to the Promised Land.
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Posted By Macedon on September 27, 2024
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Мили мои, кога некоја војска победува, таа го истакнува и издигнува своето знаме во знак на радост и показ за својата победа. Израилскиот народ, во времето на Стариот Завет бил единствениот чувар на богооткриената вера, но многупати бил подложуван на испитанија поради својата похотливост, заради која и отпаѓал од вистината.
Едно од неговите поголеми искушенија било Египетското ропство, кога Јакововите потомци биле принудени петстотини години да се мачат во туѓа земја. Но Бог го слушнал молитвениот плач на Својот народ и го избрал пророкот Мојсеј, еден од најголемите старозаветни праведници, за да го поведе Израилот кон земјата на нивните татковци, кон наследството на праотецот Авраам.
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Posted By Macedon on September 15, 2024
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In today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 19: 16–26) it can be seen how and why the act of self-justification takes place and what the resulting consequences are.
In all freedom we can conclude that Christ, as God Who knows everything, placed the last request (“If you want to be perfect, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, then come and follow me!”) before the young man not so much because He really expected him to fulfil the call for perfection (today – monasticism), but only to show him that he had not fulfilled the other commandments of God that he claimed he had previously fulfilled.
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Posted By Macedon on September 15, 2024
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Во денешното eвангелие (Матеј 19, 16–26) може да се види како и зошто се одвива актот на самооправдување и какви се последиците од него.
Слободно можеме да заклучиме дека Христос, како Бог Кој сè знае, последното барање („Ако сакаш да бидеш совршен, оди и раздели го својот имот на сиромаси, па дојди и врви по Мене!“) го постави пред младичот не толку поради тоа што навистина очекуваше од него да го исполни повикот за совршенство (денес – монаштво), туку само за да му покаже дека ги нема исполнето и другите Божји заповеди што тој тврдеше дека претходно ги исполнил.
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Posted By Macedon on September 10, 2024
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Killer of Repentance
Saint John the Baptist was sent by God to call people to repentance: “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3, 2). He himself, with his way of life, is the embodiment of repentance. And naturally, he could not even be called by God to preach repentance if he had not experienced all its power perfectly.
In today’s Gospel reading (see: Mark 6, 14–30), it is revealed to us what the main human passions are and what their basic mutual influences are in ourselves. Passion is painful – to the point of depravity, a mental force, which through repentance (change-of-mind) should be transfigured into virtue. The main human passion is self-love, which we need to transfigure into love of God and love of humanity.
In Herod the Tetrarch, we recognise self-love in all three of its manifestations or sub-passions: love of pleasures (desire for bodily pleasures), avariciousness (desire for money and possessions), and vain glory (desire for earthly power and glory). In the works of Venerable John of the Ladder, we read that human passions often collide with each other, and that, one passion suppresses the other at the appropriate moment. Thus, we also see with King Herod that these three passions at the same time do not have the same intensity and strength, and we see how the stronger passion suppresses the weaker one.
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