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2012.03.04.
On this Sunday, the first one of the Lent, it stands established by the saints and by the
fathers the Sunday of the Orthodoxy. Oh, how shall I, the Lord, not deliver My speech over this
day of memorial left by the fathers? Under the work and under the coming of the Holy Spirit
upon them, this is how the saints and the fathers worked, and they worked with fast and living
prayer before the Lord, each of them working more and more fully for the Christian people to
have a guide upon it; still, many wolves clothed in skin of sheep were sneaking all the time
inside of My church and they have been grabbing the rod to shepherd in My place, and their
face was seen after that, for they rose, scattered and then spoiled; however, the saints have
always fought on My behalf and raised saints and gave them their victory even then when they
were sacrificed on the altar of the right faith, for they were fighting and overcoming with Me
through many cold oppressions and they kept the faith and the people after them, which was
strengthened more and more by the miracles and by the revelations of the saints working with
Me, even after they had been given to be sacrificed on the altar; and they were overcoming like
the snowdrops, which after they struggle against snow and frost that do not let them pull their
heads out when they come into bloom, they wait again and again under the thick layer of snow
and ice and finally they overcome and break the crust with their little head faithful to the spring
and then come out in bloom after much struggle while trying to come out and to appear.
Oh, Orthodox people, take from Me the word of watch and get used to keeping your
land, your mystery and your traditions! Get up to watch for everything starts to go bad because
of the paid shepherds who rule over you; however, you look up at the saints and fathers and do
not grow less under the hand of those who estrange you from your salvation, for the dyed face
is not the face of a shepherd. Your shepherds are the saints and all those who sanctify them-
selves for Me and for you, and you should pay good attention to what you are doing, because I
help you to know and to do, and I come as word to you and I exhort you to know. You should
dedicate half of the days of the week for your soul and you should eat food for fasting after
the sunset, (Monday, Wednesday and Friday, r.n.) which guides the time of your days and
nights for you to know the measure of the time, as if your faith does not exceed that of the
Pharisees and the Scribes, who fast twice a week, as they boast about it, and who say that they
do great things, then you will not have into your midst the kingdom of the heavens, the kingdom
of the saints, who sacrificed themselves on the altar for your faith through them.
Oh, the bitter pain comes up to Me, as the heaven sees that many fast much, but they
walk nakedly with their body and soul; they walk uncovered before the heaven and before the
people; they dress in fashion and stir up each other’s senses for sin, from which they do not
fast. Oh, a fast pleased to Me is needed from those who want to fast from food, as not
eating or the lack of eating brings the man before Me, but his holy life makes him the heir
of the heaven on earth. Holy food for soul is needed in time of fasting. You have to read
about the saints who have ruled well over the church. Less work done by hand is needed and
much watching work is needed for fast and for the prayer for the forgiveness of the sins, as man
is a bondservant of sin.
Oh, Christian people, Orthodox people, you should eat decently the food on the table
during the time of fast and all the time, and you should not eat it with joy, for the flesh is against
the spirit through fleshly desires, which come up to the soul, and man is used to rejoice over
eating and over preparing his food to eat as well. When I submitted to the forty days and forty
nights fast, after My Father’s will, during all that time I had been tempted and tested by satan,
but in all that time I had remained gentle and humble, as it is required in days of fasting, but
the fasting man does not know enough what true fasting is. (See the selection topic: „About
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