The mystery of the man and of the woman
from God and it is born by the word and that afterwards it is called man , and that it is called the dwelling place of the man ’ s life . Amen .
Excerpt from the Word of God on the first Sunday of the Lent , of the Orthodoxy , from 20- 03-2005 . ( On Calameo ; on archive . org ; on files . fm ; on Google Drive )
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Oh , how beautiful was , My mother , your care for your holiness before Me , for you had waited for Me to come on earth and , as the wise virgin who waits for her beloved bridegroom , in the same way you loved and waited for My coming with great holiness . You had Zacharias as your heavenly teacher , your relative who revealed to you the mysteries from the prophets for My coming in the flesh on earth , and he took you to his care because you were an orphan and as someone takes his daughter in the house of the Lord promising her to Him , in the same way he gave you to God . Oh , your mystery is great and so is the mystery of the new man , carried in your virgin bosom and then born , far beyond the nature of the human birth , of your holy body , without any sin ! Oh , how beautiful were , My mother , your nature , your mind and your wisdom when the angel Gabriel was sent in the little town of Nazareth to Joseph ’ s house , your protector , and announced you the blessing and the gift , bowing before you , and you full of holy fear said to yourself : « What kind of honor can this be ?» The angel blessed you , oh , My dear mother , and he told you not to be afraid , for the Holy Spirit and the power of the Most High would overshadow you , and there would be nothing else and then you bowed with love before the one who blessed you and you answered : « Behold , the handmaid of the Lord ; be it to me according to your word ». ( Luke : 1 / 38 )
You were wise , mother . You understood that no one can bless from the light except God and His servants and those who oppose Him do not work for Him but only at His command as did Balaam when he went to curse Israel ’ s people , when he received commandment from God to go and bless it and to look and see what kind of people that one was , for it was the blessed one .
Oh , your mystery is great , My mother ! No one among people tremble at the thought that God took the woman out of man and out of woman , He took out God , the new Man with a life giving spirit , for I am He Who was crucified to death on the cross , and I am the One Who came to life taking back My life and its body resurrected from the dead , and I am He Who rises the dead to life , oh , My mother , and who among those born of woman can be the fulfilling of all those the prophets wrote about for the ages that were to be and for the one who will remain and who will be called the eternity after the seven earthly ages , My mother ? The spirit of prophecy who flowed through David ’ s mouth , the king of Israel , told them about Me then and said : « Behold , I have come . It is written about Me in the book in the scroll ». ( Psalm : 40 / 7 - 40 MT = 39 LXX )
Oh , how beautiful it was for you , My mother , your destiny from the Father , for you were the one through whom I became Man in order to come and do the will of God for the redemption of man from death , mother . Here is the heavenly mystery of your coming on earth among people , and from it My coming then , My mother , My Virgin ! Oh , how can We not speak to one another before My people today on Our day , My mother , the day when I was united with you and We both were one flesh , just as man was in the beginning when he had not fallen yet into disobedience to God , and from whom I took out the woman that she might be also made out of her the mother of God ’ s children as the Lord would have fulfilled if man had not risen
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