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SAINTS&READING: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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SYNAXIS OF THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND THE OTHER BODILESS POWERS;  ARCHANGELS GABRIEL, RAPHAEL, URIEL, SALAPHIEL, JEGUDIEL, BARACHIEL, AND JEREMIEL.

The Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel was established at the beginning of the fourth century at the Council of Laodicea, which met several years before the First Ecumenical Council. The 35th Canon of the Council of Laodicea condemned and denounced as heretical the worship of angels as gods and rulers of the world but affirmed their proper veneration.

A Feastday was established in November, the ninth month after March (with which the year began in ancient times) since there are Nine Ranks of Angels. The eighth day of the month was chosen for the Synaxis of all the Bodiless Powers of Heaven since the Day of the Dread Last Judgment is called the Eighth Day by the holy Fathers. After the end of this age (characterized by its seven days of Creation) will come the Eighth Day, and then “the Son of Man shall come in His Glory and all the holy Angels with Him” (Mt. 25:31).

The Angelic Ranks are divided into three Hierarchies: highest, middle, and lowest.

The Highest Hierarchy includes: the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones.

The six-winged SERAPHIM (Flaming, Fiery) (Is 6:2) stand closest of all to the Most Holy Trinity. They blaze with love for God and kindle such love in others. The many-eyed CHERUBIM (outpouring of wisdom, enlightenment) (Gen 3:24) stand before the Lord after the Seraphim. They are radiant with the light of knowledge of God, and knowledge of the mysteries of God. Through them wisdom is poured forth, and people’s minds are enlightened so they may know God and behold His glory. The THRONES (Col 1:16) stand after the Cherubim, mysteriously and incomprehensibly bearing God through the grace given them for their service. They are ministers of God’s justice, giving to tribunals, kings, etc. the capacity for righteous judgment.

The Middle Angelic Hierarchy consists of three Ranks: Dominions, Powers, and Authorities:

DOMINIONS (Col 1:16) hold dominion over the angels subject to them. They instruct the earthly authorities, established by God, to rule wisely, and to govern their lands well. The Dominions teach us to subdue sinful impulses, to subject the flesh to the spirit, to master our will, and to conquer temptation. POWERS (1 Pet 3:22) fulfill the will of God without hesitation. They work great miracles and give the grace of wonderworking and clairvoyance to saints pleasing to God. The Powers assist people in fulfilling obediences. They also encourage them to be patient, and give them spiritual strength and fortitude. AUTHORITIES (1 Pet 3:22, Col 1:16) have authority over the devil. They protect people from demonic temptations, and prevent demons from harming people as they would wish. They also uphold ascetics and guard them, helping people in the struggle with evil thoughts.

The Lowest Hierarchy includes the three Ranks: Principalities, Archangels, and Angels:

PRINCIPALITIES (Col 1:16) have command over the lower angels, instructing them in the fulfilling of God’s commands. They watch over the world and protect lands, nations and peoples. Principalities instruct people to render proper honor to those in authority, as befits their station. They teach those in authority to use their position, not for personal glory and gain, but to honor God, and to spread word of Him, for the benefit of those under them. ARCHANGELS (1 Thess 4:16) are messengers of great and wondrous tidings. They reveal prophecies and the mysteries of the faith. They enlighten people to know and understand the will of God, they spread faith in God among the people, illuminating their minds with the light of the Holy Gospel. ANGELS (1 Pet 3:22) are in the lowest rank of the heavenly hierarchy, and closest to people. They reveal the lesser mysteries of God and His intentions, guiding people to virtuous and holy life. They support those who remain steadfast, and they raise up the fallen. They never abandon us and they are always prepared to help us, if we desire it.

All the Ranks of the Heavenly Powers are called angels, although each has its own name and position by virtue of their service. The Lord reveals His will to the highest ranks of the angels, and they in turn inform the others.

Over all the Nine Ranks, the Lord appointed the Holy Archangel Michael (his name in Hebrew means “who is like unto God”), the faithful servitor of God, as Chief Commander. He cast down from Heaven the arrogantly proud Lucifer and the other fallen spirits when they rebelled against God. Michael summoned the ranks of angels and cried out, “Let us attend! Let us stand aright before our Creator and do not consider doing what is displeasing unto God!”

According to Church Tradition, and in the church services to the Archangel Michael, he participated in many other Old Testament events.

During the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt he went before them in the form of a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Through him the power of the Lord was made manifest, annihilating the Egyptians and Pharaoh who were in pursuit of the Israelites. The Archangel Michael defended Israel in all its misfortunes. He appeared to Joshua Son of Navi and revealed the will of the Lord at the taking of Jericho (Josh 5:13-16). The power of the great Chief Commander of God was manifest in the annihilation of the 185,000 soldiers of the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib (4/2 Kings 19:35); also in the smiting of the impious leader Heliodorus (2 Macc. 3: 24-26); and in the protection of the Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias and Misail, thrown into the fiery furnace for their refusal to worship an idol (Dan 3:22-25). Through the will of God, the Chief Commander Michael transported the Prophet Habbakuk (December 2) from Judea to Babylon, to give food to Daniel in the lions’ den (Dan. 14:33-37). The Archangel Michael disputed with the devil over the body of the holy Prophet Moses (Jude 1:9). The holy Archangel Michael showed his power when he miraculously saved a young man, cast into the sea by robbers with a stone about his neck on the shores of Mt Athos. This story is found in the Athonite Paterikon, and in the Life of Saint Neophytus of Docheiariou (November 9). From ancient times the Archangel Michael was famed for his miracles in Rus. In the Volokolamsk Paterikon is a narrative of Saint Paphnutius of Borov with an account of Tatar tax-gatherers concerning the miraculous saving of Novgorod the Great: “Therefore Great Novgorod was never taken by the Hagarenes... when... for our sins the godless Hagarene emperor Batu devoured and set the Russian land aflame and came to Novgorod, and God and the Most Holy Theotokos shielded it with an appearance of Michael the Archangel, who forbade him to enter into it. He [Batu] was come to the Lithuanian city and came toward Kiev and saw the stone church, over the doors of which the great Archangel Michael had written and spoken to the prince his allotted fate, ‘By this we have forbidden you entry into Great Novgorod’.” Intercession for Russian cities by the Most Holy Queen of Heaven always involved Her appearances with the Heavenly Hosts, under the leadership of the Archangel Michael. Grateful Rus acclaimed the Most Pure Mother of God and the Archangel Michael in church hymns. Many monasteries, cathedrals, court and merchant churches are dedicated to the Chief Commander Michael. In old Kiev at the time of the accepting of Christianity, a cathedral of the Archangel was built, and a monastery also was named for him. Archangel cathedrals are found at Smolensk, Nizhni Novgorod, Staritsa, at Great Ustiug (beginning of the thirteenth century), and a cathedral at Sviyazhsk. In Rus there was not a city where there was not a church or chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael. One of the chief temples of the city of Moscow, the burial church in the Kremlin, is dedicated to him. Numerous and beautiful icons of the Chief Commander of the Heavenly Hosts are also in his Cathedral. One of these, the Icon “Blessed Soldiery,” was painted in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The saintly soldiers, Russian princes, are depicted under the leadership of the Archangel Michael. We invoke Saint Michael for protection from invasion by enemies and from civil war, and for the defeat of adversaries on the field of battle. He conquers all spiritual enemies.

Holy Scripture and Tradition give us the names of the Archangels:

Gabriel: strength (power) of God, herald and servitor of Divine omnipotence (Dan 8:16, Luke 1:26). He announces the mysteries of God. Raphael: the healing of God, the curer of human infirmities (Tobit 3:16, 12:15) Uriel: the fire or light of God, enlightener (2 Esdras 5:20). We pray for him to enlighten those with darkened minds. Selaphiel: the prayer of God, impelling to prayer (2 Esdras 5:15). He prays to God for mankind. Jehudiel: the glorifying of God, encouraging exertion for the glory of the Lord and interceding for the reward of efforts. Barachiel: distributor of the blessings of God for good deeds, entreats the mercy of God for people. Jeremiel: the raising up to God (2 Esdras 4:36)

On icons the Archangels are depicted in according to the character of their service:

Michael tramples the devil underfoot, and in his left hand holds a green date-tree branch, and in his right hand a spear with a white banner on which is outlined a scarlet cross, or sometimes a fiery sword. Gabriel with a branch from Paradise, presented by him to the Most Holy Virgin, or with a shining lantern in his right hand and with a mirror made of jasper in his left. Raphael holds a vessel with healing medications in his left hand, and with his right hand leads Tobias, carrying a fish for healing (Tobit 5-8). Uriel in his raised right hand holds a naked sword at the level of his chest, and in his lowered left hand “a fiery flame.” Selaphiel in a prayerful posture, gazing downwards, hands folded on the chest. Jehudiel holds a golden crown in his right hand, in his left, a whip of three red (or black) thongs. Barachiel is shown with a white rose on his breast. Jeremiel holds balance-scales in his hand.

Each person has a guardian angel (Matt 18:10), and every nation also receives its own guardian angel from God (Dan. 10:13). When a church is consecrated, it also receives a guardian angel (Palladius, Dial. Ch. 10).

Hebrews 2:2-10

2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, 4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will? 5 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. 6 But one testified in a certain place, saying:"What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him? 7 You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands. 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Luke 10:16-21

16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me. 17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." 18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

[annetteinsight]

"During tough times, remember: 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' - Jeremiah 29:11 🙏 .

[sheismo]

H.O.W

Humility. Obedience. Wisdom.

- Have humility & know that you NEED God. Come to God raw & vulnerable. Lean on him & his guidance. Fear the Lord.

- Be obedient to the Lord. Listen to God & be obedient to his word & the voice of the Holy Spirit.

- Once you become obedient you will be rewarded with wisdom & understanding. Wisdom comes from the Holy Spirit.

[heavensmysteries]

GALATIANS 1

In Paul's time there were now as many non-Jews as there were Gentiles. This sparked a huge debate (please read Acts 15).

Acts 15: 1 ''Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers, "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."

Historically, God's covenant people were of one ethnic group-the Jews. Jewish people were set apart by the practices commanded in the Torah. An example would be, by observing the Sabbath. When the Gentiles became saved, many Messianic Jews were meeting in churches in Galatia and commanding the Gentiles to obey the Torah. They argued that in order for the Gentiles to be accepted into God's family, they needed to be circumcised.

Paul was deeply saddened upon hearing this. He wrote that the Gospel could not be altered and those who were infiltrating the Gospel, would be under God's curse. Paul spoke of how the Gospel that the Jews received had not been perverted!

Do you remember the story of Acts 16? Paul and Silas were in prison praying and singing hymns; suddenly, there was a great earthquake and all the prisoner's chains became loose. What astonished me about this chapter is that the jailer wanted to commit suicide. He knew that he would eventually be killed if there were no prisoners inside the jail cells! It would have been extremely hard to prove to the Council and the Chief Magistrates that the gates of the prison cell flew open because of a 'violent earthquake'. What also astonishes me is that after Paul shouted in v.28 "Don't harm yourself, we are all here!" the jailer knew that a Miraculous Power had done this. He fell trembling at their feet and said "What must i do to be saved?"

Acts 16:31

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved- you and all your household."

This is the same Gospel that was preached to the Gentiles, firstly to the Jews. Therefore gospels of Inclusion, Prosperity, Works and other beliefs that do not align with the above, are sent from Satan.

Feel free to ask questions!

[pinkybeanie]

“Seek the Lord and live, … …

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name, … …

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.”

‭‭Amos‬ ‭5‬:‭6‬, ‭8‬, ‭24‬ ‭RSV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/2020/amo.5.6-24.RSV

[o-que-deus-sonhou]

Ser inconstante é ser constante na coisa errada.

[dheudeghetlaust]

💛Book♥️of🩵LOVE💚 - "The book of love"

Originally written by Padre Pio - Here it is:

 Ready ?

Book of Love

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will learn what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

Originally written by Padre Pio, published with the help of Luigi Gaspari & abridged and revised by U.D.U. Dragomir.

April 1968 - Padre Pio tells Luigi. "The words in the book of love are written in/from heaven." They decide to include this excert from the bible on the opening pages afterwards.

"Then, I had seen an angel, powerful, commnig from heaven. The angel was wrapped in a cloud, in front of the angel a rainbow. The angels face was a sun and it's legs as if pillars of fire. The angel had a small book opened in it's hand. The angel had put it's right foot in the sea, and the left on the eart.

Then I heard the voice of heaven again. The voice spoke and said "go!, take the open book from the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and the land". 

I approached the angel, and requested to be given the little book. The angel replied to me "take the book and eat it; it will fill you belly with bitter but in your mouth you will taste the sweetness of honey".

I took this book from the hand of the angel and I ate it. In my mouth was the sweetness of honey, but as I swallowed it, I tasted the bitterness.

Then the angel said. "Still the prophecy must be fulfilled, to speak to nations, people, and kings."

Revelations, Chapter 10.

      Now for the book of love.

And so springtime blossoms, our very own spring. When we leave the winter behind, with all of it's dryness and ice. The winter that carrys with it our worries and shows us our delicacies.

We have healed, and shaked the winter off us. Now it is easy to foresee what we will occupy our time. It is a freedom free of the old worries.

Our friends that we have loved have betrayed us. We have left them free to leave, to passionalty chase after their own allusions.

Now time is ours, time for our own springtime.

Now either alone or with others, can joy for the fruits of happiness and happiness for reinvigorated energy be expressed.   

The longing for our old friend is gone. Better said those that have betrayed, are without us. Our love is alive because those that have betrayed us have returned. Love can be shared now, better than before, because now we are better prepped for it, than before.

We are wealthy in knowledge & pain. Our love is the kind that can be known and appreciated.

We continue journey freely, in the presence of our accumulated wealth. Peacefully we will rejoyce of the harvest we reap and calm we will observe what happens around us.

It is worrysum, the destruction of those who think they can oppose the greater good. It is the down-fall of those who chase after allusions.

Though, the evil with-in their hearts is unknown to us.

We see faces without light, that accuse to avoid being accused. We walk righteously on the path, and we will see further.

Above good & evil, there is a great crusade to partake in. It is a crusade for life, our own lives. A life which will be the center of strength, love and happiness for eternity. 

Gods power works with the will of the people.

This will provokes power.

But people judges each other.

Love means to forgive every person for every sin.

(To my dear friend Luigi, for your birthday, to show you my love and acknowledgement. To give you courage and strength to take my heart into the world). 

A note written by Padre Pio to Luigi before the next 'chapter'

                              Bologna, 8th-9th April. 1968

Tonight I need to talk, please listen. 

I want to share important ideas about our love to help make it easier to understand.

We are in the heart of all, and our love lives through the heart of others. We are endeared to live where we are welcomed.

Our love unites love.

Bonds are broken without us and any union is called love only with our presence and the heart of heaven.

Our love is free of evil and grief, it is pure, full of joy. Joy exists only in us. Love will lead us to know the uselessness of our greed and of our temptations. 

I want to help people understand that all we are looking for is inside of us. Why should we worry, why ?

Listen to love and you will find all that you need.

Much more generous than is believed are the gifts of love, and it gives much more than is asked of it.

What do we what from love ? Ask and we shall recieve. 

Ask what? A good truth ? We get it first hand.

A neccesary evil ? Love is forbidden to provide it.

Love can give us everything, if we can give all of our hearts with open arms to love. Never has the world had an open heart. On many occasions we have given a piece of our love, but greed, and our desires have kept us at bay.

We need to remember that everything exists because of our will. 

Many times we have hidden love, and held it for ourselves, and what has happened ?

We grow worried, tired, dissappointed, and sad. Always confused with no interest into why. The motive is our lack of love.

We, wait for a sign. A call to come out of where we have hidden. Love is here, if we call on it, and even more when we love. We need to help each other in keepin love by our side, because if we so desire, love  it can be everything for us.

For us to want this, it means to surrender ourselves, our ego, or sine, the me & the I, to love. When we surrender to love, we are permited to recieve everything.

It is tiring to see the world as it is. Without the holy love that can nurture life, without the love only we can have for each other.

What we usually desire, is often only our own ill-fates. Rarely, do we know this.

What is truely good ?

It is a sound mind in a sound body, for a peaceful soul and a warm feeling of life in our hearts

What does warmth do ? It warms us, and it lights our hearts. Warmth gives us a happyness for living, loving and bringin love and warmth (and joy) every-where.

For real? yes, we know this well. Many times we have even lived it.

But why have we lived that feeling for so little a short of time ? Because it was love in those moments the magic that warmed our hearts. Love has done everything for us to let us know it, and to let us be loved, and then ?

It was unknown how or it was undesired of us to sustain love.

We have been free to follow other paths, and then ?

Look at the result. A world empty and dry and with no love, but still, it exists. It exists because even the smallest unoccupied corner is enough for love to blossom. It lives and waits there. It waits until a day when many suffer, so that we share the pain amongst each other, all of it created by ourselves. Our suffering makes us aid each other. Do we really need a call to arms?

We hear a call for help, and we run to help. How ? If we call for help, we already have help there. If we stay quiet, there is another way. What way ? It is a person, exactly like all of us, just that this is a person of love, in this way we are helped by what is in this person (love). Forever has loved helped us through these people.

What do you want to do ? Love can give us everything.

Nothing is impossible because everything is possible for us. Love belongs to us all, and is our kingdom. Thus, what belongs to love belongs to us all, so, why are there worries ?

We have everything love has, we just need to want them. And what does love ask of us ? It asks us to have an open heart. 

Are we scared to open our hearts ? And to give back what ? It is a great ease to open our hearts. A kingdom of love is everything. 

What is everything ?

Everything means knowledge, knowledge of us, and knowledge of everything that is to see, touch and feel (and eat). What we can know is unfathomable to us. But through love the unfathomable becomes knowlesge to us.

Why should we love so much ? Because we have been created, and we create everything that makes us more happy, more greatful, and more full of love. 

Why should we ask to be loved ? With how much we grow in love so dus our happiness grow. This grows in us or joy. Love is infinite, and so love will always grow more love for ourselves. 

Growing love, we grow our knowledge. With how much more we love with that much better we know, but; only those that can love can know.

What belongs to love, and only to love can be obtianed only with permission. The blessings we recieve are only charge of will. We need only to show our will to love and the rest and everything will be done with love. Because love is all.

The heart of heaven is a massive lamp that illuminates all of eternity. It is the fire that burns in us. This fire makes us live. Life exists only with the warmth of heaven, and the cooling of our hearts (when) darkened they become is warmed from the heat of the heart of heaven.

Every single heart is responsible for keeping a particle of creation alive. When dry, darkened and tired any of these hearts become. This particle should disappear, because the heart arbitrates everything.

What does love do ? 

Through the heart of heaven we are warmed. The heart of heaven fills the void in our hearts. It sustains us, and sustains life through it's warmth.

Love is a reserovoir of energy, that intervines and stops disasters occuring from the mishandeling of the energy given to us by love. It is a back-up heart for us all.

What stops us from loving each other ? What keeps us from acknowledging each other ? Why do we want to control each other ?

It is an inconsistent mind, a constant storm in our brains, driven by turbulent (in the sense that they all flow from one to the next) waves of external thoughts. 

The inconsistent mind, cools the heart and rejects love.

How ca we control the mind ? How do we hold it together ? Try to leave in silence all thoughts that belong to anything else but love and goodness. You have to conquer instability by listening to the laws of love. 

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will love what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

When a person asks for a little love, give them love without asking whom they are. That love will bind them and with the love given. 

The people whom are sent to us and ask for goodness and love, never send them to abaddon, for they are a part of us. They will be with us through the love that always gives.

We want to unite, to always be constantly bonded within our hearts. We are everything and everyone.

The loss of one of us leads to our reduction. We are bound together by binds that are imposible to see. Binds that lead to the heart of heaven.

Love is one. We are the scattered remnants of the infinite joy in heavens. 

Be united and let nothing stray you.

We must be concerned for the divisions amongst us, the discrimination between majorities and minorities, races, nations (people) and species (oh wait, we haven't evolved that much yet). 

Those that want to love will stand-fast. They will have be united, if we keep segragating it will be impossible to unite.

We must be gentle and kind to each other, helping and leading one another, but never casting away.

When temptation asks us to send away someone. Love immidietly intervenes. Loves intervenes with all of its energy to prevent it. 

That is the will of love; that we all take one small step towards each other and than love will free the power with-in each of our hearts.

When we are far from each other, remember the memory of each other and in this way love will live in thy hearts.

Love will always be among us, and will help us unite. It will help us over-come our fears, and it will help those whom wish to segragate themselves from us. Love that can love someone who wants to seperate from us can defeat any obstacle.

Longing for love is the will of love at work. Love is much more powerful than any resistence. And we should desire to unite and to love any-one who trys to evade the bounds of love. Love knows how to turn any lost soul back. It is impossible to evade and here is why.

Love defends our rights for those whom have been loved and run from us. To run from us is to run from love. Do ask for help when you feel burdened. Love will immiedietly intervene in our favor, our unity is our will.

              Bologna, 9th April 1968

"Today I am 24 years old; it is the middle of the night and I still feel close to everyones heart, and of Gods heart. It is God who has blessed me with 'happy birthday' and wants to keep me company.

I am a bit confused. It is hard to say why. I listen quietly to the beats of my heart, that is now so full of love for me. Am I worthy of this much ? I am certian it is to much.

God of course looks at me and conveys to me, and keeps m company, and so I feel good, satisfied. Tonight I feel as if the whole universe is with-in me.

What is this heart that beats in me ?

It is love and God that knows my needs, and my desire to have God close to me. In this night I could be sad, and certainly alone with my thoughts. Everything changed because I hear a voice telling me to be calm. This voice tells with goodness that tomorrow will be a good day.

Today is a new day, but it seems that everything has gone back in time. A past I have forgotten even exists, even in the heart of heaven. My childhood, my teenage years, and my maturaty are all here and I can relive every moment instantly. The only thing I lost is the memory of anything I may have done wrong, and a few unfaithful moments to God.

Buy why is it so imposible for me to remember my sins ? Maybe this is gift from God, a blessing to let me forget the bad things that I have done. 

Certainly these words in my head about the heart of heaven are a calling to be brave, faithfull and convinced that everything will be set right."

What does love ask from us ?

It asks for nothing. It tells us to love as much as we can, and then our love lets us feel more and more.

Love will lead us to see and recognize not holy places but heartful places (another word lost in translation) and in those places we will have vision (we will see).

What do we give to those we love ?

We give them authetic friendship and all of our trust and love.

Love is our friend, the friend we have always searched for. It is a friendship that makes the friends of love to be our friends too, all whom wish to be honest, loving friends.

We should also remember those whom are anything but a friend, of course with love we certainly can become friends with anyone we desire.

Now love holds us, and love guides our every step and forbids us from running from the truth.

There are many diseases in the world but only one disease that witholds our understanding of the power of love. 

It is an eternal ocean of blessings, happiness and wealth of which very few know of and no-one desires to benefit from. 

The remedy is there, in the unlimited ocean where we can take everything and yet we take and have taken nothing until now.

What is good we have learned naturally, by Gods grace. Now we must learn to recieve and to request. The supply is endless and the blessings are infinite, and at everyones disposal ready for those that know how to ask and whom so desire.

To recieve we must turn to God; only one ray comming to the heart of heaven will bind us to the eternal supply for the joy of everyone. That ray is love.

Morning, 9th April same year.

At times love can make the heart a prizoner. It is important to be free of this penitenciary and to listen to your heart first. Your heart will speak and tell you what is good for yourself.

The love we have given and the love we have been given is always in our hearts. Our acts of love, all remaine and relive in our hearts. Listen to its voice. 

Here we can find again all that we have loved and all that we will love.

Who loves, is loved. Those that love will truly know themselves. Love lets us bee seen. If someone cries, we cry, and our happiness is my happiness.

Pain from the knowledge of our mistakes is what provokes love to push on. Love gives us the comfort to ask for fogiveness (and to forgive) and, when we do desire, to try again.

 

Love is the salvation for all those that return and will return: the love that binds us is so great that in every day and every moment there is something new to see because we still have more to learn.

Our lives must flow the way they do, just like the lives of others.

Love forbids anyone to judge. The time for clean powerful words has come. We must become infuential through authority, to be better known.

Love will make its order known through the authority of those whom love. Love will make words breath inspiration and to lead.

That is what love asks of us, that is what love desires of us all, especially those whom serve love. 

Love how-ever refuses to serve those that ask to be served, and pretend to serve mercy, love and kindness. When these people only want us to help them because they know what power love has. They know everything is in our hands and bow as proof to the acknowledgment of the omnipotence of love. But that is another path, one that is not made of love.

Love prefers people whom stand tall when in the presence of grace/peace. Those that pray for power are people less responsible.

Those that bow and pray, begging and praising, at times are completely void of love. Better said they want the world to beckon to their every whim and egocentrical desires.

To us, those that love, what happens ?

 We are forbid to say no, and others come to us to obtain through us what is forbidden for them to pray for (either because it is unfair, unholly, or just beneath their merit). Furthermore we are saddnedded when they return to us with what only appears to be love.

This happens so that they will bound themselves to us. All that has been obtained through prayers and worship, all that has been taken through lies and deciet still belongs to us all.

Love defends the order of all and everything, and forbids any intelligence to pass judgment. Love condemns any form of demeaning because love is mercy and respect.

Love does for us more than we can see or believe, with love all of our sins will be forgiven.

We can be well and un-injured from the sinful desires that we have made in the world. We have been put into this world and in direct contact with its allusions to consolidate them.

We know how to change thoughts from good ones to bad ones (and the other way around). Our experiences are knowledge. Knowledge into how to defeath evil from our lives. 

I want us to be without fear, fear is a sign of weakness and a lack of knowledge. Loves resilience is more powerful than any human promise and eliminates any transgression.

Just maintain love in your hearts, know that love will eliminate our weaknessess and love is our greatest strength.

Remember to never judge each other. Remember that love will help allevieate pain and sadness. Love is goodness

Love that is given brings mercy to the world. A great love will make us sweeter to each other. The benefits of love will attenuate any path.

Be extremely strict when offering love, because it will bind us. This uninion means that we have to let everything be done fore love. 

When we have to right a wrong or to offer recompension let love freely take action. Often times love is blocked by our own actions. Our own intelligence can succumb from out-side influences, and from various beliefs. Love can see through the suggestions and see those whom make them and why, so just let love do everything.

Love does need permission. It respects our desires and mistakes. Love lets us live our lives in what ever way we wish: there are many paths. If we desire, love will show us an easier journey through life one free of risks, or it can lead us on a more beautiful journey through life. Love can be a great guide for our footfalls through life, but it does not have any concern for social posturing.

Love will prevent us from unforseem damgers. It can protect us from traps.

At times we already have all the blessing we seek, without ever seeing just how close they are; that is were love intervenes to help us open our eyes.

We mistakenly miss the opportunity to take what is ours, because other souls, or spirits hide or steal them. Ask thy heart what belongs and love will prevent others from stepping on your blessings.

Love needs us to be very clear, when love accords our wishes it has to listen to our words.

The words are engraved on our hearts, exactly as we speak them. It is important to meditate and think deep before having any desires. Try to determine everything desired free of any uncertainty, or fear that it may be something bad, its better to seek advice instead in those instances.

Our hearts will illuminae what is the most urgent for us to wish for, for the benefit of everyone.

Love lets us hear things simply and clearly. 

Love can make us understand everything in a day, in a blitz, everything that we've wanted to know our whole lives. Knowledge of ourselves is possible only through love (for ourselves). 

Love knows where we are from, where we are going and what we live for, because life is energy commisioned by our hearts to make us who we are.

This energy makes flesh that gives a face to a soul. A soul that exists before it was wrapped in meat. Our souls are just like Adams and Lilithes, and it gets to different people through different ways. The spirit transported by the mind, led by the heart. But the love in our hearts is the constant presence of God in us all.

If love can make a good heart, then the mind can drive the heart to excessive passion that can tarnish a soul. Thoughts implicate the mind to desires that kill the spirit of love in us. Without the spirit of love we are but victims and prey of our carnal passions. 

These carnal passions help to divide and seperate us. They turn us against our brothers and sisters. But our hearts can save us, because it is a magnet that has been put in us. Use that magnet to find love.

Love is more powerful than any passion. Love is the light that illuminates the mind. The mind illuminated by love brings the holy spirit to drive intelligence and manifestations of peace and joy.

Everything for a peaceful harmony between mind and heart.

Rome, 11 April - Holy Thursday

The mind can be influenced, but the heart can only be conquered: a well conquered heart is the stronghold that breathes desires and commands the mind. Violence can never win the hearts of the people. 

Kindness, goodwill, sacrifice, perserverence, and devotion are what wins/conquers a heart.

Pure violence consists of an never ceasing desire to enter into that heart. That death on the cross has opened us a path, and it has left us a key to open the path when it is closed.

It was given to us on a cross of wood in a moment of agony. The hope we had been given then is that one day we will return our world to a peaceful one. With no more wars, is based on the choices made then.

Out of the people whom have saved the world from ruin, among them were the diciplies of Jesus as well. The few remaining today live their lives to help others. They bring the mercy and forgiveness of our God much more effiecently. Choosen people continuely recieve a blessing to balance and to keep them steady against the chaos created by the dominion of ambigition and passions.

We have to acknowledge the source, the origin of our love. 

It is pointless to ask why we do not understand. We could understand everything if we stop asking. The best solution for everything is to be calm and patient. There is light in all of us. 

We will be enlightened when we are humble about what we know and what we have. When we stop bragging about what we know, what we have, and what we know. We all need to express only greatfulness/gratitude thankfulness and love. In those moments we can know, have, and see much more than we bragged about. 

Our acknowledgment gives us the right at a love that permits us everything.

When goodness remains with a person that is free of the desire to find love or truth, or to know love. That person is an instrument used by love to unite us.

More so, the absence of love becomes a search, it makes us concerned that we lost it, or that we have lost interest, or love, or the will to never achieve our plans in life. 

What is thought, stays, what is said, has been said, what is planned is ordered. Negligence is something that does not exist for us.

Love wants to prevent us from confusion or from adopting ideas that detach us from the peace and the enthusiasm we need to seek out and share the truth.

Be like a mirror of the truth. The truth a person wants to create is just their will to bring others to their decietful narritives. Any person that seeks a truth to impose on another person is a person that is only imposing themselves.

The power of the truth is the patients to watch the fall and death of what cannot live without the light of the truth.

Those that know of the lies of the world will fight with all of your spirits against these lies, and when the damage done by these lies becomes apparent. Loves intervention will destroy the false beliefs imposed by people with the desire for revenge or the desire to dominate.

When we accept a truth through suggestion, or force, or fear, concern, it means to stay away from love for the truth. We are led to all sorts of fabricated narritives and slowly can build ourselves a world of lies. From the biggest to the smallest lies. The lies that oppress our progress and those that provoke us to war. 

Lots of good people do nothing, this is because their goodness prevents them from doing harm to anyone. Than to live a quiet life, they avoid standing against evil. The empire of evil will strike all, good people who do nothing only help bring more disorder and more lies.

Only those that refuse, those that fight, for themselves and for others, they need the most help.

Those that compromise, and toil with the lies of the world are void of love. We should forbid people to live in lies.

Do help those that pray for a signle cause; truth for justice, and love.

Prays with no point (pointless prayers) do not exist.

In prayers we meet. In a conversation that is a gift to our hearts. Our words spoken as whispers that create; they create a world. A world full of the love we wish to give. The spirit of love will create what our words ask for. Ones thoughts will become our thoughts and will show us everything we desire and think. The light from our eyes will reflect in the eyes of the world.

The creative words will immediately bring light to a person. The word addressed to the holy ghost is the spirit of love from the heart of a person to the creator.

It is the word that becomes prayer, acknowledgment and the gift/blessing of love. With the word and the gift/blessing of love a person can create everything that is good. When we offer everything. Then we can create everything we desire, with the love we express with words.

Thoughts that are addressed in silence are part of a very intimate conversation between us. Thoughts that would keep us at a distance are impossible to keep us away from each other. Love is always present, even if we believe or desire it to be absent. Love is present but invisible to heavy hearts that are devoted to conquering creatures or other things of a possessive nature, or hearts that hunger for power.

Through creation we have placed before us the dispostional order to find our creator. To find the creator in us. 

                          Light & Darkness

None have bine high in heaven except for those that have stepped down (from their posts in heaven). Our children.

Those that are in heaven. And how moses raised the snakes in the wilderness, so must our children be rasied. And so all that know of God will be freed, but those that believe they are already condemned, for them it has been refused the name of the only son created by God. And how with this motive condamnation:

Let their be light on Terra, but people preferred to stay in the dark.

                          San Giovanni Rotondo, 14 April 1968

                                Holy Easter of Revival

The creator is present in everything that is created. Today I have been revived to bring our life to God. I have offered to sacrifice for every one of you, and God has accepted my offer to free us from death. My blessings can be found, and I will always show my presence to the world, in all of creation and in everyones return to the love for God.

From my heart, blood has flowed, and it has stopped living, to give my life to you. My life and my heart has brought a new uninion between us and God. My blood has become one with your blood. In the name of my blood, God has brought back love in your blood and your lives. Gods love for me has become Gods love for you. Everything create has brought us back and so we can have everything. Because in creation, there lay the love from the creator. 

The desire to free what you love, for those whom possess it, is the only way to obtain everything. That is the law of our hearts. That is the law of love. To love what you have.

I have died on a cross for you. I had suffered instead of you. I ask that you love me for the love I have given you. I have been revived so as to let you stand besides me. I have returned to the kingdom of heaven to prepare the best chairs for you. I have taken my place to permit you to take yours.

My return to the world has already happened, it is a return where I ask to keep me in your hearts. My body. My blood, are all their waiting to be given. I cannot wait to be called to help, and so I still send people out into the world who can talk about me, and whom love to unite people. A person whom teaches and recites everytime you need me.

                   

                          San Giovanii Rotondo 15 April 1968

Naturally it is impossible to live without light. Without warmth and love. That which is life. Life can not rezist the fear of the abyse. There is no peace in us without light, that which gives us knowledge and love, and unites us.

Psalm 98/97

Sing to God a new psalm. For God has done great things! Gods right hand and Gods holy hand have brought us Victory. God has made known the salvation of our nation.

God has remembered to love and cherish the house of Isreal.

All the tents on Terra have seen the victory of our God.

Make a sound of joy and sing a psalm of praise.

Sing praise for God with a lyre, with a lrye and the sound of a melody. With a trumpet and the sound of a horn make a joyful sound for the creator!

Let the sea scream, with everything with-in it; Terra and all those that exist on her!

Let the floods stop their waters; Let the hills sings their joy together with God. For God comes to judge Terra. And God will judge Terra with righteousness and people with equality.

Saint Teresa de la Avila

"I have herd the words. I realized the truth; 'What I do for you is not a little, certainly this is one of the ways you will be debt to me. All the evil of the world is because of the mis-understanding of the truth in the holy scripturs. All that is written in them will happen one day'

I have always believed this, that all the rest have only added on"

"And so daughter, how few are there that truely love me? If they truly love me, why would I hide from them things ? Do you know what true love means to me ?

It is to convince yourself that everything that does not satisfy me is a lie. You will understand with clarity everything you doughnut understand now with the benefits that will be given to your soulz."

"Though Jeses revived from the dead, the first fruit put to sleep. And from the death of a person, the revival of the death came from a person. And just like Adam every person dies. And through Jesus everyone will be brought to life. But each one in their order. Jesus was the first fruit, then all those that belong. Then comes the end, when the kingdom will be given back to God. After we have destroyed all the kingdoms, and authorities, and powers. 

For God needs to be, until all are under Gods slipper. And the last under Gods slipper is death"

             Corinthians 15, 20-28

"But everything is subjective, and clarity of this does not involve the creator of everything. For God everything is relative. And than when everything is, the son will come and belong to God just like everything else. For God to be in everything in everything".

   

I Samuel 15, 22-26

"And Samuel said 'What pleases Yahweh ? A holocaust and a sacrifice or to listen to the voice of Yahweh ? Yes it is better to listen than to sacrifice. To listen to footfalls is better than to eat the fat of the lamb. 

For a sin such as divinity is rebellion, and stubborness is a crime of idoltry. 

Because you have refused the commandment of God, God has refused you as a king

Saul responded to Samuel: I fell into sin because I did not adhere to the commandment of God and your words. In my fear of people. I did what the people asked of me. Now please forgive my sins and return me to my prayers and to God.

But Samuel told Saul: Nu, you will not return because you have rejected the word of God, God has rejected you"

                 Psalm 71/70

"You have done good things:

Who, God, is comparabil with you ?

You have sent me sadness and difficulties.

But you have given me life again.

You will raise me again from deep in the soil.

And again you will caress me."

            Chronicles 1.17 16-27

"King David entered and in front of Yahweh, he said ' Who am I Yahweh God, and what is my home that you have brought me this far ? But in your eyes, God, it will never be to far to promise me that you will extend the home of your servant to a distant future. You show me as if I am a line of men, and this is, Yahweh, God, what you promised. Yes Yahweh, you are God, independent is You have made such a promise to your servant. Be happy with the blessing of your servants home, to always be in your presence. For you Yahweh have blessed, and will always remain blessed."

            Psalm 105

"Do not touch those annointed by me, and do not harm my profits! Than he brought famine to the country, and broke the rod that was their bread"

John 3:15

"that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"

"PRAYER REQUESTS - HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?"

   

 

 

 

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KJV | 1 PETER | 5:7

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Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.

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SAINTS&READING: MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2024

november 26_december 9

VENERABLE ALYPIUS THE STYLITE OF ADRIANAPOLIS (640)

Saint Alypius the Stylite was born in the city of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia. His mother, a Christian, was widowed early, and she sent her son to be educated by Bishop Theodore. She distributed her substance to the poor, then began to live an ascetic life near the church as a deaconess.

Saint Alypius, from his early years, wanted to devote his life to God and yearned for the solitary life, although Bishop Theodore would not give him permission to do so. Once, when Saint Alypius was accompanying his bishop to Constantinople, the holy Martyr Euphemia (September 16) appeared to him in a vision, summoning Saint Alypius to return to Adrianopolis and found a church in her name.

With contributions offered by believers in Adrianopolis, Saint Alypius did build a church in the name of the holy Martyr Euphemia, on the site of a dilapidated pagan temple infested by legions of devils. Beside the church, under the open sky, the saint erected a pillar over a pagan tomb. For fifty-three years Saint Alypius struggled upon the pillar, praying to God and teaching those who came to him.

The demons which infested the pagan cemetery fell upon the ascetic by night and pelted him with stones. Saint Alypius, wanted nothing to stand in the way of the attacks of the spirits of darkness, then even took down the boards that served him as a roof, protecting him from the rain and wind. In the face of the saint’s conquering steadfastness, the demons forever fled the place, which had been sanctified by his deed of voluntary martyrdom.

Fourteen years before his death, Saint Alypius could no longer stand. He was compelled to lie on his side because of the weakness of his legs and endured grievous sufferings with humble gratitude. Two monasteries sprang up around the saint’s pillar: a men’s monastery on the one side and a women’s monastery on the other. Saint Alypius introduced strict monastic rules for both monasteries, and he directed both monasteries until his death. Saint Alypius was reposed in the year 640 at age 118. The body of the venerable stylite was buried in the church he founded in honor of the holy Martyr Euphemia. The relics of the saint of God healed many of those who came in faith.

SAINT NICON METANOEITE " Teacher of Repentance" OF ARMENIA (998)

He was born about 930 to a pious and wealthy family near Trebizond. Once, inspecting the family's estates, he was so affected by the wretched conditions of the poor fieldworkers that he despaired of happiness in this world and determined to live a monastic life.  After years spent in a monastery, where he shone in obedience, prayer, and self-denial, the Saint was given leave to travel in the ministry of the Gospel of Christ. For three years, he wandered the East without home or possessions, crying to everyone he met, "Repent!" and proclaiming with tears the message of salvation in Christ. He then spent seven years in Crete, then went to Greece, walking barefoot from place to place, preaching repentance and becoming so well known that he acquired the nickname "Metanoite," meaning "Repent!"  After driving a plague from Sparta through his prayers, he settled near that city, building a great church dedicated to Christ the Savior and living in the church for the remainder of his life. In time, a monastery was attached to the church for his disciples. His last counsel to his disciples was: "Flee pride, cleave to humility; do not despise the poor; keep clear of all evil, of all envy and of the remembrance of wrongs; forgive your brethren. Go regularly to church and confess your sins often to the priests and spiritual fathers. If you keep to these counsels, I will never abandon you." He then gave his soul back to God. Saint Nikon was immediately venerated as a saint by the people of Sparta and is regarded as the city's protector, where his relics are still venerated.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-10

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, 4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, 5 which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; 6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

Luke 19:37-44

37 Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, 38 saying: " 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" 39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples." 40 But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out." 41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

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Verse Mapping Journal: A 53-Week Workbook to Navigate the Sacred Texts

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Vital Directives For God's Child

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“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”

‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭ESV‬‬

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