Posted By Macedon on June 10, 2024
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Refer: John 9, 1-38
Two meetings took place between the man born blind and Christ: the first one while he was still blind; and the second one, after he received sight and after he justified Christ before the Pharisees. The Pharisees also met the (blind) man twice: the first time, when they did not believe that he was blind; and the second time, when they wanted to disparage the work of Christ, and Christ Himself. And while the Pharisees fell from one sin to another sin, because they sinned first against the man, and then against the Lord Himself; during that time the blind man advanced from strength to strength; first he received sight, then he was enlightened.
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Posted By Macedon on June 10, 2024
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Се случија две средби помеѓу слепородениот и Христос: првата додека уште беше слеп; и втората, откако прогледа и откако Го оправда Христос пред фарисеите. И фарисеите двапати се сретнаа со човекот: првиот пат, кога не поверуваа дека бил слеп; и вториот пат, кога сакаа да го омаловажат делото Христово, а и Самиот Христос. И додека фарисеите паѓаа од грев во грев затоа што прво му згрешија на човекот, а потоа и на Самиот Господ; за тоа време човекот напредуваше од сила во сила; прво прогледа, а потоа се просветли.
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Posted By Macedon on June 10, 2024
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Receiving and finding of living water, manifested as a prayer of the mind in the heart and enlightenment of the mind, is a gift of God – “the water that I shall give him” (John 4:14). Then we do not need a spiritual guide, grace alone will lead us – “the water that shall flow into eternal life” (John 4:14).
The manifestation and flow of the grace in our hearts is a testimony that we have personally accepted the gift of God and that we have matured as individuals; a testimony that we are no longer hired workers, but children of our Heavenly Father; a testimony that we are acting in the power of a person – who bears witness of His Son.
True worshippers will worship the Father in the grace of the Holy Spirit and in the confession of the true Faith. Worship in spirit and in truth is one and the same worship, one and the same action, one and the same grace. And it occurs in one and the same place, first and foremost – in our heart. Following the enlightenment of the mind, and in obedience, as well as externally.
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Posted By Macedon on June 10, 2024
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Добивањето и пронаоѓањето на вода жива, пројавено како умно-срдечна молитва и просветлување на умот, е дар Божји – „водата што ќе му ја дадам Јас“ (Јован 4, 14). Потоа не ни треба духовен раководител, благодатта сама ќе нè води – „вода што ќе тече во живот вечен“ (Јован 4, 14).
Пројавувањето и потекувањето на благодатта во нашето срце е сведоштво дека лично сме го усвоиле дарот Божји и дека сме созреале како личности; сведоштво дека не сме повеќе наемници, туку деца на Отецот наш Небесен; сведоштво дека настапуваме во силата на личност – која Го сведочи Неговиот Син.
Вистинските поклоници ќе Му се поклонуваат на Отецот во благодатта на Светиот Дух и во исповедање на вистинската Вера. Поклонувањето во дух и во вистина е едно и исто поклонување, едно и исто дејство, една и иста благодат. И, се случува на едно и исто место, пред сè – во нашето срце. По просветлувањето на умот, а по послушание, и надворешно.
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Posted By Macedon on May 28, 2024
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Father Gavril, from the Lesnovo Monastery, was a great consolation to the few true Christian communities (Christians with their own spiritual father, with a rule for spiritual struggle, who regularly fasted, confessed and received communion), who at that time, from 1983 to 1987 (the years we spent together), in R. Macedonia were scattered like small oases of salvation in the desert of atheism and Christian nominalism (Christianity only by name). As far as I remember, such communities existed in Skopje, Prilep, Strumica and Tetovo. If I have left someone out, may they forgive me.
With what I have written, I would like to share with you some advice and moments from our life together with Father Gavril in the Lesnovo Monastery, as well as from his rare visits to Skopje.
God always sends consolation to His people, just as Father Gavrill was to us at that time. Each time brings its own difficulties in fulfilling God’s commandments and in spreading the word of truth, but also it brings its own reliefs. I would not go into the comparison of the conditions then and present conditions, but one thing is certain – The tradition of true faith and true works is one and the same, then and now. This twofold Tradition, on a personal-catholic (universal, congregational) level, comes down to the prayer of the mind in the heart – “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me”, and on a catholic-personal level comes down to a concrete and living, compassionate participation in the Eucharist of the Church.
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