About fasting and almsgiving
Passover day , because you know what Passover means according to its real word . Your Passover is God ’ s Lamb , Who washed you of your sins , and Who became bread and wine for you , to have Him into you , until His appearance in the clouds , until the great union of the heaven with the earth , son .
The human race gets up today early in the morning and roasts meats , mixes drinks and prepares festivities for oneself with human honor , and this is called : „ the festivity of the Shrove Sunday ”
6 a name after the custom of the Christian people , as man says , and he goes on celebrating and eating until the Lord ’ s Passover , as if the Lord would be an idol and not true and holy God . ( See the selection topic : „
What defiles a man , what enters or what comes out of him ? 7 ”, r . n .)
The Christian people still has something left from the Christian ’ s custom , but it does not know what fasting means . Israel , you know from Me what fasting means , because you are a remnant chosen and prepared by Me and well kneaded to know how to grow up in a Christian way for the Lord ’ s Passover . I remind you how I told you : „ Eat wheat , son , and the man will thank you from everlasting to everlasting ”. What fasting have I established upon you , My people ? I established a fasting for those that are evil , for those that are forbidden by the law of God ’ s commandments , to start with you the salvation of the Christian people , which will get up like you , to stand before Me . I established the law of obedience on you , My people , the law that I establish on the man that I created in the beginning . What I gave him to eat , I also asked you to eat , and I also told you to eat wheat , son , so that the man may thank you from everlasting to everlasting . Put , sons , the wheat grain into water ; put it in a bath and wash and soak it , and prepare it for three days with rain of water over it , with water to its measure , and on the third day you should have it and eat it , and this way you should always have to prepare the wheat for three days beforehand and to add it to those blessed by Me in the beginning so that the man may eat .
Oh , little remnant , taken out of the Christian people , out of the Romanians ! I have put the law of obedience over you , My people , and I have been teaching you from your beginning of forty years ago , to have the sign of obedience on your head , but not like the Jews , as the Jews were wearing it and still wear it on their head but without fruit of obedience . The sign of obedience is the shelter , which covers your head , Christian , son , the sign of obedience , sons , so that all who see you may know that you have a Master , that you have God as your father . He , who walks with his head uncovered , is his own master ; that one has not got the sign of submission , and he is not known that he is a son of God if someone sees him . I spoke even for the angels ; I said that the head must be covered because of the angels . How comes that , sons ? Here is how : the angels do not have their own free will , and I told you this work , but the man has his own free will , as this is how God made him . But the man , who has his head covered , that one is a Christian submitted to God ’ s will , for the angels who do not have their own free will . When a painter paints an image of an angel , he makes a big sign on his head , which is called the sign of submission to God . The same with you , Israel , I asked you ,
6 The Shrove Sunday represents a celebration what means the last day when one can eat „ for sweet ”, before
starting one of the four great fastings established in the Orthodox Church ( The Fasting of the Nativity , the Fasting of the Holy Passover , the Fasting of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul , and the Fasting of the Assumption ), r . n .
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