BEYOND THE TRANSIENT
from Saint Silouan the Athonite
on LOVE & TEARS
. . . my soul cries for the whole world. I cannot remain silent on the people whom I love to tears. I can not remain silent, for my soul continually suffers for the people of God, and with tears I pray for them.
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God asked Righteous Abraham for everything. Does He want the same from us?
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Holy Martyrs Menás, Victor, Vincent, and Stephanie;
St. Theodore the Studite, the Confessor
~ Fast day ~
One day Menás clairvoyantly discerned a pagan celebration in the town of Cotyaeus. He descended into the town and openly declared his faith in Christ the Living God. He denounced idolatry and paganism as falsehood and darkness. Pyrrhus, eparch of that town, asked Menás who he was and where he was from. The saint replied: "My fatherland is Egypt, my name is Menás. I was an officer, but witnessing the worship of idols, I renounced your honors. I now come before you all to proclaim my Christ as the true God, that He may proclaim me as His servant in the Heavenly Kingdom.'' Hearing this, Pyrrhus subjected St. Menás to severe tortures. They flogged him, scraped him with iron claws, burned him with torches, and tortured him by various other means, and finally beheaded him with the sword. They threw his body into a fire so that Christians would not be able to retrieve it, but Christians recovered several parts of his body from the fire nevertheless. They reverently buried those remains, which were later transferred to Alexandria and buried there, where a church was built over them.
St. Menás suffered in about the year 304 and went to the Kingdom of Christ. He was and remains a great miracle-worker, both on earth and in heaven. Whoever glorifies St. Menás and invokes his help with faith, receives his help. The saint has often appeared as a warrior on horseback, arriving to help the faithful or punish the unfaithful.
2 Corinthians 4:6-15 KJV
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
Saint Luke 21:12-19 KJV
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
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LOVE AND TEARS
Saint Silouan the Athonite
Blessed is the soul that loves humility and tears, and hates evil thoughts.
Blessed is the soul that loves his brother, for our brother is our own life.
Blessed is the soul that loves her brother: she feels the presence of the Spirit of the Lord in her; He gives her peace and joy, and she weeps for the whole world.
Blessed is the soul that loves his brother, for our brother is our own life.
Blessed is the soul that loves her brother: she feels the presence of the Spirit of the Lord in her; He gives her peace and joy, and she weeps for the whole world.
My soul remembered the love of the Lord, and my heart warmed. My soul is deeply lamented, for I have so much offended the Lord, my beloved Creator. But he did not remember my sins; Then my soul abandoned itself to an even deeper lamentation so that the Lord would pity each soul and take it into his heavenly kingdom.
And my soul cries for the whole world. I cannot remain silent on the people whom I love to tears. I can not remain silent, for my soul continually suffers for the people of God, and with tears I pray for them.
Brothers, I cannot proclaim to you the mercy of God and the wiles of the Enemy.
FORE-FATHER ABRAHAM'S REWARD
The Rich man knew poor Lazarus in this life and they know each other in the next. St. Luke 16:20-31 KJV
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
THEOSIS
Christ the King asked Abraham for it all
and he gave it.
In turn, Christ the King restored Abraham to Paradise and made Abraham one with Him.
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