Written by Fr. Valery Leonichev incl.
. Published in
The
day after the Liturgy, because of an innocent child's question, given
by the young sharer, there started up a conversation: to comprehend an
old philosophical debate about: what is a man.
Indeed, out of the mouths of babes ...
What is a man without the church?
The
service this day in memory of the miracle of Jesus healing the
paralytic is celebrated by the Church in the fourth week after Pascha,
and it reminds us of who we are, before God, Who first visited every one
of us ...
We were all gathered in the
cozy house on the outskirts of the Kostroma Nerekhta, and again we
stand as bowls, in anticipation of being filled with Holy Communion,
just like all of you, our brothers and sisters in Christ. And we are
with you - we are the Church!
But do
not let us, O Lord, rebel once again, in our proud blindness, and
exchange the priceless gift of Thy mercy, for that of the rulers of
this world.
With love, Afanasyev
http://rpczmoskva.org.ru/prixodskaya-zhizn/nedelya-chetvertaya-po-pasxe-prixod-rpcz-v-gorode-nerexta-vo-imya-sv-nikolaya-carya-muchenika.html
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