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Saints&Reading: Tuesday, August 6, 2024

july 14_august 6

THE HOLY MARTYRS NOBLEBORN PRINCES BORIS AND GLEB, IN HOLY BAPTISM – ROMAN AND DAVID (+ 1015)

Via St Elizabeth Convent

On 15 May, we commemorate at our churches the venerable princes Boris and Gleb, slain in 1015. They were the first saints of the Russian saints. An ancient chronicler thus describes the nature of their exploit: "They allowed themselves to be murdered by their older brother Svyatopolk vying for the princely throne. They suffered, but did not lay their hand on their brother, earning themselves the crown of eternal glory." They died but did not take upon themselves an act of fratricide. They acted with remarkable humility and obedience to their father, Great Prince Vladimir, from whom their older brother Svyatopolk inherited the throne.

Indirectly, they obeyed the commandment of our Lord: “Honour your father and your mother” (Exodus 20, 12). Shortly before his martyrdom, Boris said: "I will not raise my hand to my older brother: my father is dead, so I will honour him as my father." He continues: "If he, my brother Svyatopolk sheds my blood and dares to slay me, so I will be a martyr before my Lord. I will not resist, for the Lord says: “God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5). Boris and his brother Gleb did not shed the blood of their older brother for the sake of worldly glory, power or other finite gains. They both likened themselves to Christ, emulating His meekness and humility, and earned glory in heaven. They chose not to hold on to their life on this earth at any cost, but to live in eternity, and become an example for Christians of all generations.

Passion-bearers are righteous Christians who faced their death in a Christ-like manner. Saint Andrey Bogolubsky, Prince Mikhail of Tver and Tsarevich Dmitry of Uglich are some other notable examples of Russian passion-bearers. The last Russian Tsar Nicholas II was also glorified by the Russian Church as a passion bearer. Their virtue was not in dying without guilt, but in facing their killers with dignity, serenity and calm, and submitting themselves unreservedly to God's Holy and Righteous will. They died as Christ did on the Cross. He had all the means to stop his execution, but He took death from His killers.

God's truth and His eternal justice do not rule out the use of force on earth. When Yaroslav - later named the wise and glorified by the Church - went to war with the murderous Svyatopolk to bring him his rightful retribution, he was also obeying the will of God. He received glory in heaven for doing so. God wills some to become passion-bearers, but it is not His will that evil would reign in our world. Evil-doers must know that they may begin to pay for their deeds in this life, even before they are condemned to eternal torment in hell.

Hieromonk Silouan (Mezhinsky) of Optina Pustyn

Astrakhan (1667) VENERABLE BOGOLEP CHILD SCHEMAMONK OF BLACK RAVINE NEAR ASTRAKHAN (1667)

The Child Schemamonk Bogolep was the son of a Moscow nobleman Iakov Lukich Ushakov and his wife Katherine. He was born in 1660 at Moscow. At Baptism they gave him the name Boris, in honor of the holy Passion-Bearer Boris (July 24).

Ushakov was appointed voevoda (military-commander) in the city of Chernyi Yar (Black Ravine), situated 250 versts from Astrakhan. He was known for his integrity. From infancy Boris displayed unusual traits. On Wednesdays and Fridays he would not drink milk from his mother’s breasts. When the bells pealed at the church, he began to cry, and became quiet only when they brought him into the church. When they did not take the infant to church, he cried all day and ate nothing.

In 1662 a deadly pestilence spread about in Russia. The child fell ill, and the pestilence afflicted him in the legs. He became lame, but continued to walk to church. The parents prayed for the health of their son and they tried everything in their power to heal him. But no sooner had the one illness gone, than upon his face there appeared another, called scales.

Once during his illness the child saw a wandering monk who visited at their home. The angelic garb so impressed the child, that he began to implore his parents to sew him such clothing and permit him to receive monastic tonsure. The holy child proclaimed: “You will see for yourselves, when you tonsure and grant me the angelic garb, I shall be well.” The parents consented. The child was invested in the schema with the name Bogolep (the Russian version of the Greek name Theoleptos, meaning “similar to God”).

On the next day the child schemamonk was completely healthy, his face was clear and there remained no trace of the illness. But on the third day there was a new illness, he developed a fever, and it struck down the child. He died on August 1, 1667 and was buried at the left wall of the wooden Black Ravine church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ. (This church was built after a great fire in Black Ravine, on July 24, 1652 the Feast of Saint Boris). A chapel was built over the grave of the child.

The Life of the holy Schemamonk Bogolep was compiled under a vow by the Black Ravine merchant Savva Tatarinov during the years 1731-1732.

Icons of the saint, with the Troparion and Kontakion to him, were widely dispersed throughout the Astrakhan region.

In 1750 on the place of the wooden church a stone church was built with a side-altar in honor of the holy Martyr John the Warrior. The grave of the holy schemamonk was enclosed in this side altar.

The bank of the river, where the church of the Resurrection of Christ stood, was constantly eroding. By the mid-nineteenth century the structure of the church was threatened, and they removed all the holy things from it. For a long time the people of Black Ravine did not remove the chief holy object: the grave of the holy schemamonk. Finally, in 1851 when the water had already approached 4 ft. 8 inches, the people petitioned the Most Holy Synod with a request to transfer the holy relics of the Schemamonk Bogolep, and they received permission for this. The small child’s coffin was laid bare, but just when the city head took it into his hands, it slid out of his hands and disappeared into the waters of the Volga.

This disappearance of the relics just at the opening of the grave was accepted as the Will of God, since the holy child had repeatedly appeared to many either in sleep, or awake while walking along the river bank, or coming down the hill. He consoled them, promising that he would be present spiritually with believers.

The simple life of the holy Schemamonk Bogolep, full of the mysteries of God, illustrates the words of the Savior concerning children: “Let the children come unto Me and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter therein. And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them” (Mark 10: 14-16).

We pray to Saint Bogolep for children, and also for protection against lightning.

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

1 CORINTHIANS 6:20-7:12

20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. 12 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

MATTHEW 14:1-13

1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus 2 and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." 3 For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 4 Because John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." 5 And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod. 7 Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. 8 So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter." 9 And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her. 10 So he sent and had John beheaded in prison. 11 And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. 12 Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus. 13 When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities.

[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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SAINTS&READING: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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HOLY PROPHET ZACHARIAS AND RIGHTEOUS ELIZABETH (1st.c) , PARENTS OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

The Holy Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John. They were descended from the lineage of Aaron: Saint Zachariah, son of Barach, was a priest in the Jerusalem Temple, and Saint Elizabeth was the sister of Saint Anna, the mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. The righteous spouses, “walking in all the commandments of the Lord” (Luke 1:6), suffered barrenness, which in those times was considered a punishment from God.

Once, during his turn of priestly service in the Temple, Saint Zachariah was told by an angel that his aged wife would bear him a son, who “will be great in the sight of the Lord” (Luke 1:15) and “will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias” (Luke 1:17).

Zachariah doubted that this prediction would come true, and for his weakness of faith he was punished by becoming mute. When Elizabeth gave birth to a son, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit she announced that his name was John, although no one in their family had this name.

They asked Zachariah and he also wrote the name John down on a tablet. Immediately the gift of speech returned to him, and inspired by the Holy Spirit, he began to prophesy about his son as the Forerunner of the Lord.

When King Herod heard from the Magi about the birth of the Messiah, he decided to kill all the infants up to two years old at Bethlehem and the surrounding area, hoping that the new-born Messiah would be among them.

Herod knew about John’s unusual birth and he wanted to kill him, fearing that he was the foretold King of the Jews. But Elizabeth hid herself and the infant in the hills. The murderers searched everywhere for John. Elizabeth, when she saw her pursuers, began to implore God for their safety, and immediately the hill opened up and concealed her and the infant from their pursuers.

In these tragic days Saint Zachariah was taking his turn at the services in the Temple. Soldiers sent by Herod tried in vain to learn from him the whereabouts of his son. Then, by command of Herod, they murdered this holy prophet, having stabbed him between the temple and the altar (MT 23: 35). Elizabeth died forty days after her husband, and Saint John, preserved by the Lord, dwelt in the wilderness until the day of his appearance to the nation of Israel.

On the Greek calendar, Saints Zachariah and Elizabeth are also commemorated on June 24, the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.

MARTYRDOM OF ST ATHANASIUS, ABBOT OF BRETSK BY THE LATINS ( 1649).

The Hieromartyr Athansius of Bretsk was Belorussian and was born in about 1597 into a pious Christian family named Philippovich. He received a serious upbringing, and he knew the theological and historical literature, as is evidenced in the diary of the saint, which has been preserved.

In his youth, Saint Athanasius for a while was a teacher in the houses of Polish merchants. In the year 1627, he accepted tonsure under Igumen Joseph at the Vilensk monastery of the Holy Spirit. Saint Athanasius was ordained hieromonk in the year 1632, and made head of the Duboisk [Dubovsk] monastery near Pinsk.

Saint Athanasius, with a special blessing of the Theotokos, re-established Orthodoxy within the boundaries of the ancient Russian territories that had been seized by the Polish Reche. Between the years 1638-1648 Saint Athanasius fulfilled his obedience as igumen of the Bretsk-Simeonov monastery. The monk endured much abuse from the Uniates and illegal persecution from the civil authorities. Three times he endured being locked up in prison.

The saint was sent to the authorities at Kiev to appear before a religious tribunal, but he was acquitted, and returned to his own monastery. For ten years Saint Athanasius, finding himself among persons maliciously disposed towards him, led a constant struggle for Holy Orthodoxy, his faithfulness to which is evidenced by his sufferings.

Attempts to wear down the spiritual endurance of the saint were to no avail. He again went to trial, after which the monk was sentenced to death by execution, for his cursing of the Unia. Saint Athanasius died as a martyr on the night of September 4-5, 1648 (the Uncovering of Relics was on July 20, 1679).

Source. all texts: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

2 Corinthians 9:12-10:7

12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 13 while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men, 14 and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

1 Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. 2 But I beg you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

Mark 3:20-27

20 Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, "He is out of His mind." 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebub," and, "By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons." 23 So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27 No one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.

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KJV | 1 PETER | 5:7

KJV | 1 PETER | 5:7

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

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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

https://bible.com/bible/59/jas.1.19-20.ESV

Speak less, listen more

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Vital Directives For God's Child