About fasting and almsgiving
book of My word into your midst , and they observe a feast for My bishop who did great miracles while he lived on earth , the miracle worker , Nicholas . Oh , how much I prepared at that time the way of this vessel , useful to Me , to be born on earth and to make him into a light among people ! His parents did not have any children because of the barrenness ; however , I gave them this son and that is all , and immediately after he was newly born , he stood three hours on his feet when his mother bathed his body in his bathing suit and he confessed his standing then in the name of the Holy Trinity among people as a counselor , as a miracle worker and great savior of sins and needs of those in his time , who were gifted on My behalf with this lighter . I have shown great signs over the church and for the church , and I confirmed through him the meaning of the fasting days , for this child did not suck from his mother in the fasting days but only in the evening and only from the right side of his mother , and the fasting days had been for him a steadfast accomplishment until the end of his body . Having grown up , the submitted to the teaching of the Holy Scriptures and kept himself clean in his spirit and body , staying away in his way from the women , as he did not want someone to be held guilty on his behalf because of that , and in this way he always saw God , for he was burning within his spirit like God and was as humble as God , and he was God ’ s church both in the time of his youth and all his time on earth . ( See the selection topic : „
The true church ”, r . n .) I gave him his uncle , who was a bishop , as the counselor of his life , and he submitted to him in his entire humility , which he had in his nature even from his birth , for he had so much humility , so much cleanness , longing and fire in him , and this great lighter became like God and he saw God and his walking was great among people , kings and servants in his time , and great miracles were written on earth by his work with Me among people , for his mercy and compassion on people and his work for people were unequalled , and I , the Lord , am confessing him now and exalting him among the saints , for it is his day of memorial , and behold , the heaven has feasts and it spends in them , and by them one brings celebration on earth .
Excerpt from the Word of God at the feast of the saint hierarch Nicholas , from
19-12-
It is written in the tradition that the Christian people should no longer eat meat until the feast of My Resurrection , and after one more week they should stop eating milk , cheese and eggs . The love of the holy fathers from Me was very great then and in all the times , when I have had saints in the church , and the love of the flock was little , both then and now , for those who are sitting now on the seat of shepherds do no longer love the ordinance left from the fathers , for love was and is only of the saints , only of those who sanctify themselves for Me within a highly moral life , always with fasting and praying , giving up eating and drinking and having their food as that in paradise , as God gave it to the man I made with My own hand out of clay in paradise , and to whom I gave breath of life out of My mouth .
Oh , how hard I made a church for Me through My disciples at that time , and after them through their followers , to be and to stand before Me for My glory ! The human kind loves meat as food , as feeling and as love , and it is hard for Me to raise a holy and numerous church before Me , selected for Me out of the sons of the world , and the holy fathers of the church had been seeking somehow to wean the faithful from eating meat and from those coming out of meat so that the man may feel the sweetness of God ’ s nearness , the holy One , as for a long time I have been waiting for man to be in My image and after My likeness , and during this time I have been raising the people of My word of nowadays and I have always been coming to it as word and I have always taught it holiness ; I have asked it , and it has listened to Me to eat as I told the
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