About fasting and almsgiving
Excerpt from the Word of God at the feast of the holy and devout Parascheva , from
27- 10-2010 .
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Oh , the testing that comes from satan is great during this time , and in My people fasting and praying with more power than by now are needed , for the water ( of life , r . n .) has been taken from the earth , and the people allow to be deceived to self-denial and despair ; however , I want to strengthen every man to put his hope in God with fasting and praying and not do as the people of Israel wanted to do in the time when the enemy blocked its source of water to destroy the Israelites by thirst ; however , the one , who was rich in fasting and praying , overcame the cowardice of the people and brought deliverance in Israel , because of that great heart in the midst of the chosen people which believed in God and relented to repentance the chiefs of the people , rebuking with gentleness because of the sin of doubt and despair , and appeased the Lord by its faith for the salvation of the people which was threatened by its destruction .
Excerpt of the Word of God at the feast of the great saint martyr Demetrios , the myrrh giver , from
08-11-2010 .
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I have spoken by My word during these days that I want to fulfill through you great things by fast and prayer , by the people of this word , sons . Oh , help Me like that , well sons , for I suffer that I do no longer have someone else besides you to help Myself with on earth . The servants of the church , instead of exhorting the people to fasting and watching with fast and prayer , they absolve and keep on absolving the people from eating and food and remove from the calendar the days of fasting and the times of the fasting , ( Is about the elimination of Monday in the days of fasting , of the three weekdays of fasting - Monday , Wednesday and Friday , r . n .) because once with the changing the feasts of the saints from their place , ( Crossing the New Style - Gregorian Calendar - from the old one , - Old Style - after the Julian calendar
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The Church Calendar ( in Romania ) up to 1924 was the same as that of Nicaea , based on severe apostolic canons , but in 1924 , the Scripture of the prophet Daniel was fulfilled : « the people made bold to even change the times », when the primate metropolitan - of that time , Miron Cristea , ( Primate metropolitan = ( in the past ) a title given to the first metropolitan of a country ; today it would be equal to that of a patriarch ) introduced the Gregorian Calendar ( Catholic ) as result of a „ pan-Orthodox ” congress that took place in 1923 , in Constantinople . At that congress , the patriarch of that time , Meletie , proposed the acceptance of the „
revised ” Julian Calendar , ( http :// en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Revised _ Julian _ calendar ) which was in accord with the Catholic one for a period up to the year 2800 and „ it was allowing that all the feasts to be celebrated at the same time with those of other confessions ”. «… and he shall wear out the saints of the Most High and he shall think to change the times and the law …» ( Daniel 7 / 25 ), r . n .
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