The Word of God in Romania 2010.02.28 - The Word of God on the second Sunday | Page 2

2010.02.28
I have in the feast announced by the saints and by the fathers through the church the
remembrance of the bishop Gregory, a pleasant vessel to God in his time and full of the Lord’s
greatness in him, for he loved the Lord on earth, and then he worked much for God, and his
work has remained as exhortation for the church. The saints are full of longing for My
coming, for they come with Me, when they come, as it is written for Me to come when I come,
and the joy of confession is with them in heaven among saints, as it was on earth among people,
and My saints speak from near Me in a spirit of the church, so that all may build up and all may
comfort, as it is written in the Scriptures about the work of the church with all of its members,
the whole church of Jesus Christ on earth, and which works from the earth and from the heaven
grace and food of Holy Spirit over it. Amen.
– Oh, grace upon grace over it, over Your church with all its members, oh, Lord of Your
saints in heaven and on earth! My joy has the day of today for it, like my confession, my first
confession from heaven over Your church and through it on earth. My joy with You is great,
Lord, in my day of memorial, a day established by the fathers in the time of the great fast for
the remembrance of Your passions for us, Lord, for the sons of Your church, Good Shepherd
and Savior. However, I had loved You even since I was a child, for I had felt You crying in my
little heart, and I wanted to cry with You then all my life on earth for You are aggrieved after
man. As fatherless as I was, I took You as my Father and I wanted to be Yours, against the
teaching received from the earth from many teachers. However, I was filled by the longing after
You, and this helped me to draw all my family, mother, brothers and sisters to You and to give
You, and so it was, for all left this age and were seized by Your age even from here, the age that
is to come, Lord, for happy and holy are those who leave this passing age and pass from body
into soul; they pass into the love and into the living of the age that is to be for those who choose
it on earth! I have dedicated all my family to you, and I also dedicated myself even more to You,
and then, strengthened by Your grace, I started to worship the people and to make them come
after You as I and those in my family after the flesh came. I worked into Your vineyard with the
longing after the people, so that the people may come after You, Lord; they and their followers
who hear Your teaching by Your confessors.
I thank you in heaven with humility that You have descended in Your manger of today
on the earth and that You have become the way of my confession among the saints, and my joy
in heaven is great and it is with great humility. Oh, the joy of humility is great, Lord, and do
not know which is the true joy that gives forth fruit through it, and that is why many have passing
joy, and they lose their joy on earth, but the joy of humility is eternal, Lord, and man has it for
heaven and in heaven, as a reward of his love for God on earth.
Oh, love with power the joy of humility, you, sons of God’s word now on earth on the
hearth of the Romanian people! I am looking at you in amazement, sons. I am bowing and
blessing you for the Lord’s mercy and grace upon you, His people on the earth today, people
of disciples with a teaching from heaven among them, a church whose head is the Lord, full of
the glory of His word among you, the spirit of testimony, the spirit of the prophecy on the table
of Christ’s church on earth.
Oh, how the servants in the churches are supposed to love you when they do not even
love God? I know this pain of the Lord from those on the earth who call themselves servants of
churches. If they do not make any effort in a holy manner, crucifying their body for Christ, for
the church, as the true shepherds of the flock are, in Christ’s image and likeness; they are
nothing more than those who defile the strong Christians, persecuting them and not embracing
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