So
let us believe in Christ and love Him, as today's troparion tells us to
"love the Bridegroom, brothers". And love Him, my child, do you know
how? The word "Bridegroom" itself says it, which means
"Bridegroom". Here we have a relationship between the Bridegroom and
the bride soul of each of us. In other words, just as lovers fall in love and
become one, so we today should become one with Jesus. He is a bridegroom and we
are his bride's soul! But only with one difference. So far we have known God
only as Father. To embrace us, to enclose us in His arms.
But now another terrifying power is revealed to us. What is it? That He became
the Son of man, that is, man. He became a little child in Bethlehem! Why? So
that now we can embrace Him as men and make Him our man! Our beloved! Did you
see how you talk when you go home? "My child! My daughter! My son!"
Isn't that what you call your children?
-Clark. Obviously.
-So
with this word we humans should shout at whom? The Son of God, who became the
Son of man. What did His Mother, the Virgin Mary, call Him? "My Son,"
did she not call him? "My King" did she not call him? "My
Love" did she not call him? "My Light!" "My joy!"
This is what God the Father asks for this Easter. Let us love His Son as the
Son of our heart! As our beloved person, may he become our King, our God, our
Joy, our Life, our Sun!
Whatever sweet words a mother says about her child, let us say them to Jesus.
The Message Of The Crucifixion And Resurrection Of Our Lord
That
is why even now when we go to the crucifixion, when we go under the Cross, how
will all come to see Him? Others will come as strangers, to see what has
happened. "Yes, Christ has been crucified, they will say, good".
Others will come as so-called friends because they are a little better with the
church. They'll see him and say, "what happened to the poor Son of
God!" and soon they'll leave. But who will stand by Him? Only those who
could love Him, as His Mother and His beloved disciple John loved Him. They
remained under the cross! They stayed with Him! What did His Mother call Him
under the cross? "My Son! My Son!" and wept. This is love, to weep
over something of your own!
You, my child, if you find out that your friend where you work, or someone
else, or their child got hurt, won't you be sad?
-Clar.
-But you'll be okay? Anything more?
-I won't get anything else.
-Then you'll be indifferent and say "okay, what do we do?" and go
home.
But if you found out that your own child was hurt, your own child was sick,
your own child was struggling and you had to take him to the hospital, what
would you do?
-Your life changes, of course.
-Would you continue to work undisturbed? Would you keep working?
-Of course not.
-You'd leave, you'd give it all up. Do you understand that? That's what it
means to love someone as your own.
Therefore, this Easter some will come as strangers, some will come as friends,
but others will come as His Mother and His beloved friend and disciple. They
will be there, under the Cross, and they will say:
- "This is our King!
- This is our heart!
- This is our love!"
That's why they will stay there. They will sympathize and accompany. So those
who will accompany His passion with love, it is they, my dear Stephen, who will
also see His resurrection!
Those who will go to church only to hear "Christ is risen" and
immediately afterwards go to eat their soup, these are not resurrected.
Those who will feel His pain, like His Mother, will be resurrected, but they
will also feel His joy with His resurrection! Thus, at the resurrection Christ
will no longer be outside or near them. He will be in them, in their hearts! Do
you understand? He doesn't want Christ to simply come near us, to sit as a
stranger near us. He wants to enter our hearts as the beloved King of our
souls!
This is the message, dear Stefane, that I would like to convey to all of you.
The Interpretation Of The "Our Father" And The
Importance Of The Cross We Make
And
let's not forget, the cross we make is the biggest symbol right now in recent
years! When I was going on one of my trips and I said, "My God, what shall
I tell them? ", I heard what God said, "You will tell them to say
"Our Father", My child and make their cross" . And I thought to
myself that we regularly say "Our Father", but what does that mean?
So along the journey, God explained and told me:
"When we say "Our Father who art in heaven", you confess that I
am, my child, your King, Father and Mother of your soul. And when you say,
"Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done," these are
the three precious things I ask of your soul. Live sanctified, for then you
glorify Me. With 'Thy kingdom come', ask My Holy Spirit to come and dwell in
your heart, and with 'Thy will be done', always do My will, so that you never
fall out of the grace of My Holy Spirit".
And the rest, I thought, what could it mean?
Immediately afterwards he said, "What I have told you, you will say when
you put three fingers on your head, so that the icon of your soul, which is
mind, reason and spirit, may be sanctified."
And then I was thinking, what does that mean, when we go down, to the belly,
making the symbol of the cross?
Then he said, "There, in the region of the abdomen, is man's reproductive
system, is man's urinary system, is man's intestinal system, without which man
cannot live."
Right?
-Of course.
- "He said, this is the body. May I sanctify your body with all its
internal systems, as I, God, have made it, so that you will not suffer from
what is to come!"
Then I thought, what does it mean when I put my hand on the right, what
will..."
"There you will say, "and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us", for, my child, the greatest teaching is to
learn to ask for forgiveness and to give forgiveness." Live forgiveness,
ask for it, say forgive me, 'and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive you'."
- "And left? I wondered." "Pray, do not turn away from My
hand."
Look Stefane, you take your kids and go somewhere and it's on your way. What
are you doing in terms of security? Do you let the kids run or do you hold
their hands?
-I hold their hands.
-Well, that's what He says: "And don't let us into temptation."
"Don't let us go, father," He says with his hand! Hold us tightly by
the hand, because we, like children, often do not know what is good and what is
bad."
"And then I will hold you My children, because you, My children, so
desire. And then I can deliver you from every temptation, because you will let
Me hold your hand and lead your life."
Isn't that a beautiful interpretation?
-It is a very beautiful interpretation. It is true that it is so simple and easy
to understand.
So I wish you, my dear Stefane, I wish all the world that listens to us, but
also all the people, all, all, all, what? From today let us experience the
three beautiful things. What are? To learn to forgive and to ask for
forgiveness. Look at the woman, a harlot, an ultimate, an abomination. Tell me
today my dear Stefan, who is not a whore? Who is not unclean in body? Who has
not defiled his body? Tell me the truth.
-I cannot say there are many of us. Few. Very few, perhaps none.
-Do you understand that? Therefore, from today it makes sense to apologize for
having soiled our bodies. But only our bodies are the problem? Isn't it our
minds? Look at this moment the whole world doesn't know what the logic is. The
balance of logic has been lost and the immoral has become moral and the moral
has become immoral! Are they lies?
-No.
-That is why we must ask God to enlighten us too.
So I hope we learn first, to ask for forgiveness. Secondly, to learn that
Christ came to earth
- as a Mother to lift us up and
- as a Mother to hurt.
- As a Mother he healed the paralytic!
- as a Mother healed the blind!
- like a Mother went to the sinner and lifted him up and said, "Sin no
more. No, My child, sin no more. Don't hurt your soul and your body again."
- Like Mother, my child, he came to be crucified.
Tell me, if something happens to your child and to the child of each of us, who
will suffer and who will run from morning till night? The stranger or his
mother?
-His mother. His mother. His mother.
-So you understand that as a mother he came to be hurt and to stand by us.
So if we, this Easter, do not love Him as Mother and Father, as a Father who
adores us and as a Mother who with her affection hides us in her arms and
always prays to God His Father, as the only Messiah of heaven and earth, to
bless us, then we have understood nothing of the mystery of our faith. Do you
understand?
-Absolutely.
-So I wish everyone a very good resurrection!
Good resurrection, dear Stefane, means to raise our spirits and see the truth.
To resurrect our body and live as He wishes with His own commandments, not with
whatever the devil prepares for us.
-My father, thank you very much. Your blessings. The conversation we had was
very nice. God help us!
-God bless you all, my child. -God bless you all.
-God help you! -God help you! Have a nice day.
-God bless you all. -God bless you all.
