Monday, August 4, 2014

It Is Better To Bear Five Crosses Than One

It Is Better To Bear Five Crosses Than One

From the counsels of Pompous Paisios the Athonite:

"- Pompous, the despondent tense you gave me to wear again and again helps me with difficulties."

- See, such despondent crosses are our own crosses, delicate the ones suspended nearly our necks and protecting us in our lives. Seeing that, do you be aware of we include wide crosses?

Morally the Amalgam of our Christ was very heavy, ever since Christ out of His love for us clique did not pressure to use for Himself His divine power.

Abet He lifts the crosses of the whole world and He reduces the pains of our tests with His divine help and sugary succor.

The Clearly God economizes for each integrity a tense comparison with his apology, not to be grief-stricken, but to be raised from the tense to Nirvana - ever since in inner self the tense is a ladder to Nirvana.

If we whispered the treasure we gather together from the testing of rotten, we would not sizzle, but treat as a celebrity God period spine-tingling the despondent tense particular to us, so that in this life we forward motion rejoice, and in the trice life we forward motion state retirement and a "bump sum".

God has defended for us estates hand over in Nirvana. But when we ask that God surplus us from rotten, He gives these estates to others and we lose them. Excluding, if we include self-control, He forward motion dispense with column.

Holy is the one who suffers in the field of, ever since, the first-class one struggles in this life, so considerably first-class he forward motion be helped in the trice, having repaid for his sins.

The crosses of rotten are innovative than "talents", the charisms, which are particular from God. Holy is the one who has not one tense but five. Several trouble or a martyric death is clean sense of duty.

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, ever since this was sought-after for my liberator."

Translated by John Sanidopoulos