About fasting and almsgiving
to God , to the saints and to those like Him . They who dedicate their lives to God and to those that are pleased to God , are the people who fulfill God ’ s Scriptures and God ’ s wills , between the heaven and the earth , and they work the mystery of the work of the fasting .
Who has to fast ? The one who does not fast , that one needs to fast . What does it mean that the man should fast ? The man who does not fast is the man who violates God ’ s commandments , and not the man who eats . The one who violates God ’ s will in him , that one may not eat as long as he wants not to eat , but I tell to such a man that he does not know what fasting is .
What does it mean a man who fasts ? That one does God ’ s good in his body ; that one puts this good before the people to be seen for making wise many who want to learn the mystery of the church , the mystery of Jesus Christ , the bread of the godly man ; that one shares his bread with the one hungry of bread , for there is no greater compassion between heaven and earth as then when you teach and make a man to get used to eating bread from heaven , for this is what I said : « I am the bread which is coming down from heaven to the life of the people ». Amen .
Truly , truly I speak to you , Israel : the poor and the rich do not fast . The people do not know the truth of these words , poor and rich ; for according to the human mind , the poor is the one who does not have , and the rich is the one who has everything . But according to the godly mind , the poor is the one who does not want to have those that are useful to the soul , to have God as wealth , glory , joy and contentment , and the rich one is he who has from God to give to those without earthly worries and who cares for the heavenly ones for him and for the people that worship God . When you do not have and do not eat , this does not mean that you fast . When you do not want to have , this it means fasting from those that are and are not for the everlasting life . Behold what fasting is : when you have everything and you do not use them , but rather you manage them for those who serve God and the saints of God , that means worshipping God and fasting for God , fasting for those who fast , and sacrificing for those who fast , not for the poor who do not eat because they do not have and who would eat everything and would do everything if they had , like the sinful world . My poor ones are others than the poor of the earth . The poor of the heaven are one thing and the poor of the earth are another thing . The rich people of the heaven are one thing , and the rich people of the earth are another thing .
Oh , My people , the people do not know the truth of the words . The spirit of wisdom of God is coming ; it is coming from heaven on to the earth to teach the people the truth of the words . Not the one who fasts from food is a fasting and humble man before Me . The humble man of God , the fasting man , is the man who worships Me with his mind , with his heart , with his soul and with his virtue , loving God with these of his .
Oh , sons of the garden of My word , who are a gate for Me between heaven and earth ! Discern well the mysteries of these words , so that the Israel may teach from Me through you , as these words are deep , and Israel gets confused by them . Worshipping God is a great mystery . Let the man bow before God and stay like this under God ’ s will and let him stay this way in love , not only with humbleness , as the true humbleness is the love of God . Amen .
Excerpt from the Word of God on the third Sunday of the Lent , of the Holy Cross . The feast of the forty holy martyrs from Sevasta ( Sebaste ), from
22-03-1998 . ( On
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