About the carved image ( icon ) and the sign of the cross
earth and heaven your new name , the Citadel of the Lord , and all those on earth will look at you and will say : « There is the Lord », as it is written . Amen .
***
Oh , sons , I do no longer find any beautiful places for Me to set over it this word : peace . Man needs birth from above to understand the way of life and My way to him . Is still there anyone among people to understand the meaning of this mystery , to confess about it and then to bring it into view so that those who are many may see how to choose their way of life and how to live the life of their soul which is given to them from God ? Oh , people are not able to live their lives without serving another god , or serving other gods , and that is why they choose their own gods , to whom they worship at large , completely forgetting that their gods perish once with them . However , you should be wise and always wise , sons , if you have Me as your God , for I am true God and this wisdom does not have to leave the Christian if he does not want to die . Therefore , I have always taught you in order to know how to serve in My presence , as I serve My Father as His Son , and that you may have My as your part My part that I have near the Father , for there I want to have those who are My loved ones , who also love Me . Therefore , take and carry your cross as I did , sons . Put the mark of the cross over yourselves , I , the Lord , am telling you this ; make the sign of the holy cross over your steps and journeys , over your words and works , over your bread and water , over your waking up and going to bed , over your humility and love , over your faith and steadfastness , and over the place where you live , that is , My citadel with you and all things on it , and also mark your hearing and seeing and all the feelings of your members and of your brothers , and much more than this , mark your prayer for the receiving of all these things with the sign of the holy cross , sons , so that your life and the work of your life may be a righteous cross and so that your way may be for you as it was for Me , and then as it has been to all My saints who loved Me .
Excerpt from the word of God at the Feast of the Saint Hierarch Spyridon , from
25-12-
Oh , if I had no way of speaking with you , children who receive My word , oh , how could I leave My word on the earth to be heard , well sons ? Oh , how shall I not bow to thank you that you welcome Me and that you share Me and make Me into a book on earth ? And how are those who have spite against you not supposed to go wrong and do harm ? They have a spite against you and grow it and they scorn you feeling important against you and thus they grow colder and colder to their disadvantage with respect of their walking behind Me , with carelessness for their walking on their behalf ? Oh , many have inflicted blows in their walking to the Lord by this sin , by showing contempt against you , by a spirit of judgment and by evil talks , for I spoke for the one who helps Me in the world as My carriers and messengers and told them : « He who does not receives you , does not receive Me », ( Matt : 10 / 40 ), and I also told them : « If they persecuted Me , they will also persecute you ; if they keep My word , they will keep yours also », ( John : 15 / 20 ), for this is given to them , that is to those who do not take after Me among those who are many ; it is given to them to fall into sin , and this is how they will see Me all the time on the earth through those who suffer for Me and like Me , afflicted and scorned by those who are unbelievers and careless with their life , far with it from the truth of life . Therefore , I am giving this day advice for the carrying of the cross , and for this truth deeply rooted in the life of the Christian , and I want to give much advice for the self-denial for those who follow Me
81