About the carved image ( icon ) and the sign of the cross
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Oh , take care of your life , sons , and learn those who see you what life is , and teach them to make
the sign of the cross with the three fingers joined together touching the four places of the body , pressing with the fingers and signing well the cross with his thought to God , and not only for appearances ’ sake , for woe to the soldier who does not know how to handle well his weapon with which he stands against his enemy ; but on the contrary , the soldier must take care so that his weapon may be loaded and not unloaded of bullets , and in the same way the Christian has to want to overcome satan with the sign of the holy cross , for satan is always active and tries to bring man to do his will and then to crush his moment and the power of his victory with God .
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I , the Lamb of God , the One baptized by John at the river Jordan , I Myself am calling the man to the way of eternal life and I am giving him the word of Epiphany , and I am coming with the heaven on earth and I am coming with the heavenly hosts as well , because I want , man , to put an end to your wandering away and to have God as your Father to become His son , and to have a father , man . I have no rest , I come after you and call you to hear Me so that I may show you the way , for I am the Way , and you need a cross to know Me and follow Me , because without a cross you cannot go on , for you have to love it and not yourself , and you need to stay obedient under the cross , for this is how I stayed , too , and this is how I have shown you to know the way , oh , and remember Me and remember the cross I was carrying and which was carrying Me , for it carried Me until it passed Me to the Father , and the cross with the Lord on it is My way and yours as well , oh , and there was not and there is no other love greater than that face to face with the people . However , people do not touch with their heart and deed the self-denial for the love of the cross , which takes man on it up to the God of the heavenly glories , the Father , the Son and the Holy Spirit , and Who is speaking now the word upon waters on a day of Epiphany and is saying :
The water of Epiphany is being blessed and sanctified with the power , with the coming and the working of the Holy Spirit , in the name of the Father , and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit , to the cleansing of those who clean themselves with repentance to the forgiveness of their sins , and that flower of the basil may sweeten with its fragrance the taste of water and its spirit , for this flower grew above My cross put in the ground by the people of that time , and it was a sign for the people to whom it was revealed the place where to find My cross and to lift it up as a testimony of its power , of the grace which it carried through the Son of God , Who was carried on the arms of the cross with His outstretched arms to embrace His crucifiers as a sign of forgiveness and eternal love , and which I want to share now far and wide and to remind man of it ; to remind man of eternal love , so that he may not forget how I loved and love him , and to learn from Me what love is , not the love of himself , not the love that comes from man , for I am love , and not man ! Oh , but when , man , when are you going to learn this ?
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