About fasting and almsgiving
of lusts and sins , for killing of the unclean spirits . Let him who is sick and cannot fast , fast only half of day .
… Preserve your health , sons , as many are sick , and for these here is what you are to do : black fasting , the best medicine : the suckling from the bosom , four hours ; the child by seven years , until twelve o ’ clock , and the healthy ones should fast until evening , until six o ’ clock in the evening , on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays . For the healing of the soul and body , one should read within eight hours forty oratories ; and during other eight hours one should read the whole Psaltery through and also the Songs of Moses . And what is besides these it concerns you . And then it comes the Hours and Canons . You should not stay without Canons in your houses , and when you pray , you should have the little note for the dead , as there are many dead who are no longer reminded in churches .
… My little children , I lost much blood for you and I labored and suffered much for you , but not even a quarter of a day do you suffer from hunger for Me . I told you to fast and you do not fast , and you say that you fast for Me . And you fast unwillingly , as the bread that you eat now when you have to fast , you would have it then .
… The Lord ’ s mother will sweep out everything that is evil on the hearth of this country . He , who is with Me , will remain . The people of God will inherit , as the foreign visitors saw what it is in Romania , and they know what it has under the bed ( Under the soil of the country , r . n .), and they can hardly wait to plunder it ; however , the lawless one will be burned and then his dust will be scattered by the wind and taken away from this land . Did you hear ?
… My mother and all the prophets and all the patriarchs and all the teachers and spiritual priests pray to you to keep well the way with Me . Be faithful to God . Do not let the weeds at the root of the vineyard . Spray the tree so that the caterpillars may die from it , for the time is coming for the leaf to spring up out of the tree . The caterpillars are the desires that the Christians have in their life . Sprayed with poison , that is with feast and prayer . Be good and do not rush to get out . Let the gates be open and do not get out for outside is gnashing of the teeth and worms eating . Stay with Me Christian , be patient , for the Lord is adding you at the right time . Let not God stay with the stick into His hand against you ; the Kingdom is not earned this way . Let the gates be open and let the doorkeeper not be and do not get out of the gate , for getting out , you will not come back , as outside it is the fiddler of the antichrist who plays so that you may feel yourselves .
… Listen , Christian : even those from your family will not let you fast , as they will say that you will wear out . One in a thousand of you is blessed thousand times to be as perfect as John the Evangelist was .
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