About fasting and almsgiving
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Oh , Romanian sons , behold what holy exhortation I am giving you as a merciful Shepherd ! Oh , get used to each other with the love of God , for such life is sweet , and there are such sweet hearts among you with the Spirit from above !
Oh , Romanian sons , give to one another this heavenly sweetness as merciful deeds , the love of God , blessed sons , for behold , see how I watch upon you , how I wake up the truth to come for you , those who are kept down by the spirit of the lie of the proud people ! I work with small steps , but I work quickly for the truth that comes and puts to shame the work and the face of the lie , then the truth is revealed , and it is being revealed coming and working , as in the parable about the truth and lie .
Excerpt from the Word of God at the Feast of the Birth of the Lord ’ s Mother , from
21- 09-2018 .
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I have told you in My coming as word to you that there are some among those , who passed away from their bodies and who had been rich on earth , and after they have separated from their riches , they are asking for mercy now , they are waiting for mercy from the earth , poor of them . Nevertheless , they have hierarch Nicholas as an example ; the rich have to consider hierarch Nicholas as their example , who was already born a Christian , and even from his childhood he appeared to be the beloved of the Lord , who even for one moment of his life had never been seized with other longing than that of doing God ’ s works among people , and after coming out of infancy , he learned from a teacher the Christian life , its order and its work ; he inherited great wealth from his parents and served with it as needed and in due season for those who were in need and distress , and thus he were able to rejoice by serving the Lord and his fellows , not keeping anything back for himself , but using everything in the service of others ’ life , because otherwise life is of no use to anyone on earth , and then neither to the heaven . In this respect , the moth and rust parable is a parable that stays face to face with man in order to teach him as I have taught him not to lay up treasures and silver for himself on earth , and rather to be wise with respect to the riches of the eternal life , which he cannot gather anything above by gathering on earth . ( See Matt : 6 / 19-20 )
Moreover , there is still another duty in the Christian life , for when you see a sick man , you go and help him , or heal him and you give him what he needs , but you must also do so with the man who is sick in his soul ; go and do all you can with the one who sins against the life of his soul ; help him to get healed from sin and this is even greater mercy , both for you and for him .
And you , helpless and destitute man , as you rejoice when one of your brothers helps you to get better from a disease that makes your body suffer , so you are to rejoice when someone wants to heal you from sin , for otherwise the one , who helps you out of the mercy of the bodily suffering , that comes from sin , helps you in vain , for the hierarch Nicholas brought out of sin those whom he helped in need and want as on earth .
But behold children , people do not know what it means to be a Christian and how the Christian life may be useful to them , oh , and they gather much haughtiness without knowing when they want to help those in need , through whom they hope that they gather in haven , without knowing well how they can gather in heaven , for man needs saved souls , and people are
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