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Today we have heard the Gospel (Matthew 25: 31-46), which the Lord gives us before the Lent that we could understand what our life is, how we have to purify and to understand the idea of religious life and purification of the soul to enter His Kingdom...
His birth Jesus Christ changed the course of history and human souls. Conceive blameless on Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit he was born sinless. And Adam was also sinless, but he made a sin and by this act he put people in the sins. But the Lord came on the Earth. He gave us the opportunity to expiate our sins and to get the eternal life...
Zacchaeus was the chief tax collector and nobody liked him because of this. People don’t like them, because they use their position for their own profit. But soul of Zacchaeus begged for confession that God would be able to forgive him...
The parable of the talents in the spiritual sense tells cometh Jesus Christ in His second coming to Earth. The parable of the talents in the spiritual sense tells cometh Jesus Christ in his second coming to earth...
I want to stop on such thing as Pharisaism. What it is? Why it makes a lot of evil for the Earth? It is true that this Pharisaism is everywhere now. It is all over the country. We still remember the Soviet times. We were told that we lived in happy and good country... We see that our authorities say we live well today, that our economics develops. They told us all the time like Pharisee: “We are doing everything for our people, that they could live happily”...
We have a chance to pretend being Nathanael. Every person heard for the first time one day about God, that Jesus Christ is Our Savior. But maybe, not every person believed that Jesus Christ can save us, that He is Our Savior. And we all let doubts come inside our heads. But during some time with God’s grace we united with God again...
We see in this Gospel that the Lord came according to Father’s Will on the Earth to execute such mission: He united all people in His Love, no matter of race or belongings to the different tribes of Jews....
Leprosy is our sins corroding us. They are corroding our soul and our whole body, and spirit. The Lord heals us, heals our souls, our bodies. But we may not understand this, and not everyone can give thanks to the Lord...
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