2/26/2012
New Martyr Priest Sergei Mechev
Thus, we should learn humility not from angels, not from men, not from the great books of the Gospel, but from Christ Himself, for He calls us to this.
The struggle for the icon is the struggle for the reality of Christ, for the fact that He truly came to earth and lived on it not only as God, but also as man.
Today is revealed the mystery of Theophany, as well as the mystery of Christ’s deliverance from sin, not only of man, but of the whole world.
The holy Church says that there is only one path—the path of struggle with the passions and lusts—and it does not begin with love. St. John Climacus talks about love in the thirtieth chapter, but we babble on about love—Love is God, but we do not know God.
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Let us enter, beloved ones, into the cells of our souls, into the temple of our spirit, consecrated unto the Lord at the moment of our Baptism and sanctified by Him at the time of our first Communion. This temple of ours—no one can ever destroy it, except we ourselves. In it there is both priest and penitent.
