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Saints&Reading: Friday, February 10, 2023

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St EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN (373)

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me a spirit of despondency, sloth, love of money, and idle talk. But give to me, your servant, a spirit of sober-mindedness, humility, patience, and love. Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother, since you are blessed to the ages. Amen.( St Ephrem the Syrian)

Saint Ephraim the Syrian, a teacher of repentance, was born at the beginning of the fourth century in the city of Nisibis (Mesopotamia) into the family of impoverished toilers of the soil. His parents raised their son in piety, but from his childhood he was known for his quick temper and impetuous character. He often had fights, acted thoughtlessly, and even doubted God’s Providence. He finally recovered his senses by the grace of God, and embarked on the path of repentance and salvation.

Once, he was unjustly accused of stealing a sheep and was thrown into prison. He heard a voice in a dream calling him to repent and correct his life. After this, he was acquitted of the charges and set free.

The young man ran off to the mountains to join the hermits. This form of Christian asceticism had been introduced by a disciple of Saint Anthony the Great, the Egyptian desert dweller Eugenius.

Saint James of Nisibis (January 13) was a noted ascetic, a preacher of Christianity and denouncer of the Arians. Saint Ephraim became one of his disciples. Under the direction of the holy hierarch, Saint Ephraim attained Christian meekness, humility, submission to God’s will, and the strength to undergo various temptations without complaint.

Saint James transformed the wayward youth into a humble and conrite monk. Realizing the great worth of his disciple, he made use of his talents. He trusted him to preach sermons, to instruct children in school, and he took Ephraim with him to the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea (in the year 325). Saint Ephraim was in obedience to Saint James for fourteen years, until the bishop’s death in 338.

After the capture of Nisibis by the Persians in 363, Saint Ephraim went to a monastery near the city of Edessa. Here he saw many great ascetics, passing their lives in prayer and psalmody. Their caves were solitary shelters, and they fed themselves with a certain plant.

He became especially close to the ascetic Julian (October 18), who was of one mind with him. Saint Ephraim combined asceticism with a ceaseless study of the Word of God, taking from it both solace and wisdom for his soul. The Lord gave him a gift of teaching, and people began to come to him, wanting to hear his counsel, which produced compunction in the soul, since he began with self-accusation. Both verbally and in writing, Saint Ephraim instructed everyone in repentance, faith and piety, and he denounced the Arian heresy, which at that time was causing great turmoil. Pagans who heard the preaching of the saint were converted to Christianity.

He also wrote the first Syriac commentary on the Pentateuch (i.e. “Five Books”) of Moses. He wrote many prayers and hymns, thereby enriching the Church’s liturgical services. Famous prayers of Saint Ephraim are to the Most Holy Trinity, to the Son of God, and to the Most Holy Theotokos. He composed hymns for the Twelve Great Feasts of the Lord (the Nativity of Christ, the Baptism, the Resurrection), and funeral hymns. Saint Ephraim’s Prayer of Repentance, “O Lord and Master of my life...”, is recited during Great Lent, and it summons Christians to spiritual renewal.

From ancient times the Church has valued the works of Saint Ephraim. His works were read publicly in certain churches after the Holy Scripture, as Saint Jerome tells us. At present, the Church Typikon prescribes certain of his instructions to be read on the days of Lent. Among the prophets, Saint David is the preeminent psalmodist; among the Fathers of the Church, Saint Ephraim the Syrian is the preeminent man of prayer. His spiritual experience made him a guide for monastics and a help to the pastors of Edessa. Saint Ephraim wrote in Syriac, but his works were very early translated into Greek and Armenian. Translations into Latin and Slavonic were made from the Greek text.

In many of Saint Ephraim’s works we catch glimpses of the life of the Syrian ascetics, which was centered on prayer and working in various obediences for the common good of the brethren. The outlook of all the Syrian ascetics was the same. The monks believed that the goal of their efforts was communion with God and the acquisition of divine grace. For them, the present life was a time of tears, fasting and toil.

“If the Son of God is within you, then His Kingdom is also within you. Thus, the Kingdom of God is within you, a sinner. Enter into yourself, search diligently and without toil you shall find it. Outside of you is death, and the door to it is sin. Enter into yourself, dwell within your heart, for God is there.”

Constant spiritual sobriety, the developing of good within man’s soul gives him the possibility to take upon himself a task like blessedness, and a self-constraint like sanctity. The requital is presupposed in the earthly life of man, it is an undertaking of spiritual perfection by degrees. Whoever grows himself wings upon the earth, says Saint Ephraim, is one who soars up into the heights; whoever purifies his mind here below, there glimpses the Glory of God. In whatever measure each one loves God, he is, by God’s love, satiated to fullness according to that measure. Man, cleansing himself and attaining the grace of the Holy Spirit while still here on earth, has a foretaste of the Kingdom of Heaven. To attain to life eternal, in the teachings of Saint Ephraim, does not mean to pass over from one realm of being into another, but rather to discover “the heavenly,” spiritual condition of being. Eternal life is not bestown on man through God’s one-sided efforts, but rather, it constantly grows like a seed within him by his efforts, toils and struggles.

The pledge within us of “theosis” (or “deification”) is the Baptism of Christ, and the main force that drives the Christian life is repentance. Saint Ephraim was a great teacher of repentance. The forgiveness of sins in the Mystery of Repentance, according to his teaching, is not an external exoneration, not a forgetting of the sins, but rather their complete undoing, their annihilation. The tears of repentance wash away and burn away the sin. Moreover, they (i.e. the tears) enliven, they transfigure sinful nature, they give the strength “to walk in the way of the the Lord’s commandments,” encouraging hope in God. In the fiery font of repentance, the saint wrote, “you sail yourself across, O sinner, you resurrect yourself from the dead.”

Saint Ephraim, accounting himself as the least and worst of all, went to Egypt at the end of his life to see the efforts of the great ascetics. He was accepted there as a welcome guest and received great solace from conversing with them. On his return journey he visited at Caesarea in Cappadocia with Saint Basil the Great (January 1), who wanted to ordain him a priest, but he considered himself unworthy of the priesthood. At the insistence of Saint Basil, he consented only to be ordained as a deacon, in which rank he remained until his death. Later on, Saint Basil invited Saint Ephraim to accept a bishop’s throne, but the saint feigned madness in order to avoid this honor, humbly regarding himself as unworthy of it.

After his return to his own Edessa wilderness, Saint Ephraim hoped to spend the rest of his life in solitude, but divine Providence again summoned him to serve his neighbor. The inhabitants of Edessa were suffering from a devastating famine. By the influence of his word, the saint persuaded the wealthy to render aid to those in need. From the offerings of believers he built a poor-house for the poor and sick. Saint Ephraim then withdrew to a cave near Edessa, where he remained to the end of his days.

St ISAAC THE SYRIAN, BISHOP OF NINEVEH (7th c.)

Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Ninevah, lived during the sixth century. He and his brother entered the monastery of Mar Matthew near Ninevah and received the monastic tonsure. His learning, virtue, and ascetic manner of life attracted the notice of the brethren, and they proposed that he head the monastery. Saint Issac did not want this burden, preferring a life of silence, so he left the monastery to live alone in the desert.

His brother urged him more than once to return to the monastery, but he would not agree. However, when the fame of Saint Isaac’s holy life had spread, he was made Bishop of Ninevah. Seeing the crude manners and disobedience of the inhabitants of the city, the saint felt that it was beyond his ability to guide them, and moreover, he yearned for solitude.

Once, two Christians came to him, asking him to settle a dispute. One man acknowledged that he owed money to the other, but asked for a short extension. The lender threatened to bring his debtor to court to force him to pay. Saint Isaac, citing the Gospel, asked him to be merciful and give the debtor more time to pay. The man said, “Leave your Gospel out of this!” Saint Isaac replied, “If you will not submit to Lord’s commandments in the Gospel, then what remains for me to do here?” After only five months as bishop, Saint Isaac resigned his office and went into the mountains to live with the hermits. Later, he went to the monastery of Rabban Shabur, where he lived until his death, attaining a high degree of spiritual perfection.

From the early eighth century until the beginning of the eighteenth century, nothing was known about Saint Isaac of Syria in Europe except for his name and works. Only in 1719 was a biography of the saint published at Rome, compiled by an anonymous Arab author. In 1896, more information on Saint Isaac came to light. The learned French soteriologist Abbot Chabot published some eighth century works on Syrian history by Iezudena, bishop of Barsa, where the account of Saint Isaac the Syrian was found.

Source, all texts: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

MARK 14:3-9

3 And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, and said, "Why was this fragrant oil wasted? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they criticized her sharply. 6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. 7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. 9 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.

1 JOHN 2:7-17

7Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father. 14 I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one. 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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This is my friend's Bible. I borrowed this from her in 2020. Her name is Viona Runturambi, a student in State Vocational High School 9 Manado, next to my high school, State High School 6 Manado (we're in the same yard). When I was in the grade 10 she was in the grade 11. When I went back to school after more than a year of quarantine, she has finished school. Until now I have not returned her Bible to her. I don't know where to find her now. Yeah, I'm having a Bible but it doesn't mean that I'm a Christian, no. I'm irreligious actually, I borrowed her Bible because I was so excited at that time to study more about this. These photos was taken on Sunday, 28 August 2022 at 16:48 (pm) with Samsung Galaxy A10s in my boarding house. #sofiaflorina #alkitab #alkitabberkata #punyatemen #punyateman #alkitabku #pinjaman #pinjam #buku #bible #bibles #biblescripture #scripture #scriptures #holyscriptures #holyscripture #holybible #imnotchristian #notachristian (at Balai Arkeologi Manado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch0bS7gh6mh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:22-23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ #bibleverse #bible #holybible #scripture #fruit #fruitofthespirit #verseoftheday #biblicaltruth #holyscriptures #holyscripture (at USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdI6w-HuewI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"During tough times, remember: 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' - Jeremiah 29:11 🙏 .

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GALATIANS 1

In Paul's time there were now as many non-Jews as there were Gentiles. This sparked a huge debate (please read Acts 15).

Acts 15: 1 ''Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers, "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."

Historically, God's covenant people were of one ethnic group-the Jews. Jewish people were set apart by the practices commanded in the Torah. An example would be, by observing the Sabbath. When the Gentiles became saved, many Messianic Jews were meeting in churches in Galatia and commanding the Gentiles to obey the Torah. They argued that in order for the Gentiles to be accepted into God's family, they needed to be circumcised.

Paul was deeply saddened upon hearing this. He wrote that the Gospel could not be altered and those who were infiltrating the Gospel, would be under God's curse. Paul spoke of how the Gospel that the Jews received had not been perverted!

Do you remember the story of Acts 16? Paul and Silas were in prison praying and singing hymns; suddenly, there was a great earthquake and all the prisoner's chains became loose. What astonished me about this chapter is that the jailer wanted to commit suicide. He knew that he would eventually be killed if there were no prisoners inside the jail cells! It would have been extremely hard to prove to the Council and the Chief Magistrates that the gates of the prison cell flew open because of a 'violent earthquake'. What also astonishes me is that after Paul shouted in v.28 "Don't harm yourself, we are all here!" the jailer knew that a Miraculous Power had done this. He fell trembling at their feet and said "What must i do to be saved?"

Acts 16:31

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved- you and all your household."

This is the same Gospel that was preached to the Gentiles, firstly to the Jews. Therefore gospels of Inclusion, Prosperity, Works and other beliefs that do not align with the above, are sent from Satan.

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Today we celebrate the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew. Saint Matthew was one of the Twelve Disciples of Christ. Before his calling as a disciple, he lived as a tax-collector for Rome, a profession looked down upon by the Jews, having the stigma of “public sinner” and “idol-worshipper”. When Jesus called Matthew to follow Him, Christ had dinner at the future evangelist’s house together with other publicans and known sinners. Matthew repented of his sins and repaid fourfold anyone he had cheated and then distributed his remaining possessions to the poor. After the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the Evangelist Matthew preached in Palestine, Persia, and all the way to Ethiopia where he was martyred. While preaching in Palestine, he was requested to write one of the earliest eye-witness accounts of Jesus Christ, known as the Gospel of Matthew. Although placed first in the Holy Scriptures, this gospel was written after the Evangelist Mark’s gospel, but this one focused more on the proof that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah foretold by the prophets, and that there would be no other. While preaching the Word of God, the Apostle Matthew found himself being pursued by wild Ethiopians. The saint planted his staff in the ground at the doors of a church he had built, and this staff blossomed into a fruit-bearing tree and its roots gushed forth a stream. Any wild Ethiopian who ate from this fruit and bathed in this stream was immediately turned from their wild ways and became gentle and timid. Out of jealousy, the ruler of Ethiopia, Fulvian, persecuted Matthew and eventually had him burned at the stake. Seeing that the flames did not touch Matthew, but rather he gave his soul up peacefully, the king repented and was baptised with the name Matthew in honour of the apostle. May the Holy Evangelist Matthew intercede for us all + #saint #matthew #apostle #disciple #evangelist #preach #preacher #gospel #bible #scripture #scriptures #messiah #taxcollector #holyscriptures #ethiopia #persia #palestine #christian #christianity #orthodox (at Ethiopia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_j8ehrDEe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Icon,Saints&Reading: Sunday, May, 22, 2022

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Fifth Sunday of Pascha: The Samaritan Woman.

THE HOLY PROPHET ISAIAH (8th c. B.C.)

The Holy Prophet Isaiah lived 700 years before the birth of Christ, and was of royal lineage. Isaiah’s father Amos raised his son in the fear of God and in the law of the Lord. Having attained the age of maturity, the Prophet Isaiah entered into marriage with a pious prophetess (Is 8:3) and had a son Jashub (Is 8:18).

Saint Isaiah was called to prophetic service during the reign of Oziah [Uzziah], king of Judea, and he prophesied for 60 years during the reign of kings Joatham, Achaz [Ahaz], Hezekiah and Manasseh. The start of his service was marked by the following vision: he beheld the Lord God, sitting in a majestic heavenly temple upon a high throne. Six-winged Seraphim encircled Him. With two wings they covered their faces, and with two wings they covered their feet, and with two wings they flew about crying out one to another, “Holy, Holy, Holy Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth are filled with His glory!” The pillars of the heavenly temple shook from their shouts, and in the temple arose the smoke of incense.

The prophet cried out in terror, “Oh, an accursed man am I, granted to behold the Lord Sabaoth, and having impure lips and living amidst an impure people!” Then was sent him one of the Seraphim, having in hand a red-hot coal, which he took with tongs from the altar of the Lord. He touched it to the mouth of the Prophet Isaiah and said, “Lo, this has touched thy lips, and will take away with thine iniquities, and will cleanse thy sins.” After this Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord, directed towards him, “Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people?” Isaiah answered, “Here am I, send me” (Is 6:1 ff). And the Lord sent him to the Jews to exhort them to turn from the ways of impiety and idol worship, and to offer repentance.

To those that repent and turn to the true God, the Lord promised mercy and forgiveness, but punishment and the judgment of God are appointed for the unrepentant. Then Isaiah asked the Lord, how long would the falling away of the Jewish nation from God continue. The Lord answered, “Until the cities be deserted, by reason of there being no people, and the land shall be made desolate. Just as when a tree be felled and from the stump come forth new shoots, so also from the destruction of the nation a holy remnant will remain, from which will emerge a new tribe.”

Isaiah left behind him a book of prophecy in which he denounces the Jews for their unfaithfulness to the God of their Fathers. He predicted the captivity of the Jews and their return from captivity during the time of the emperor Cyrus, the destruction and renewal of Jerusalem and of the Temple. Together with this he predicts the historical fate also of the other nations bordering the Jews. But what is most important of all for us, the Prophet Isaiah with particular clarity and detail prophesies about the coming of the Messiah, Christ the Savior. The prophet names the Messiah as God and Man, teacher of all the nations, founder of the Kingdom of peace and love.

The prophet foretells the birth of the Messiah from a Virgin, and with particular clarity he describes the Suffering of the Messiah for the sins of the world. He foresees His Resurrection and the universal spreading of His Church. By his clear foretelling of Christ the Savior, the Prophet Isaiah deserves to be called an Old Testament Evangelist. To him belong the words, “He beareth our sins and is smitten for us.... He was wounded for our sins and tortured for our transgressions. The chastisement of our world was upon Him, and by His wounds we were healed....” (Is 53:4-5. Vide Isaiah: 7:14, 11:1, 9:6, 53:4, 60:13, etc.).

The holy Prophet Isaiah had also a gift of wonderworking. And so, when during the time of a siege of Jerusalem by enemies the besieged had become exhausted with thirst, he by his prayer drew out from beneath Mount Sion a spring of water, which was called Siloam, i.e. “sent from God.” It was to this spring afterwards that the Savior sent the man blind from birth to wash, and He restored his sight. By the prayer of the Prophet Isaiah, the Lord prolonged the life of Hezekiah for 15 years.

The Prophet Isaiah died a martyr’s death. By order of the Jewish king Manasseh he was sawn through by a wood-saw. The prophet was buried not far from the Pool of Siloam. The relics of the holy Prophet Isaiah were afterwards transferred by the emperor Theodosius the Younger to Constantinople and installed in the church of Saint Laurence at Blachernae. At the present time part of the head of the Prophet Isaiah is preserved at Athos in the Hilandar monastery.

For the times and the events which occurred during the life of the Prophet Isaiah, see the 4th Book of Kings [alt. 2 Kings] (Ch 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, etc.), and likewise 2 Chr 26-32.

Source: Orthodox Church inAmerica

ICON: ZARAYSK ICON OF ST NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER (1225)

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - the most revered saint in Russia since ancient times - was born in Asia Minor in the second half of the 3rd century in the Greek colony of Patara in the Roman province of Lycia into a family of wealthy Christian parents, in his youth he was given over to the service of God under the guidance of his uncle, the bishop Patarsky. His uncle elevated him to the rank of priest. The saint's entire life was indeed an example of Christian service to God and people. When his parents died, Saint Nicholas inherited their fortune, which he gave to the needs of charity. Saint Nicholas was the bishop of the city of Myra in Lycia in Asia Minor (present-day Demre), his ascetic life and miracles won fame during his lifetime. The saint took part in the First Ecumenical Council of 325, at which he condemned the heresy of Arius, who denied the Divinity of the Son of God Jesus Christ. According to church tradition, for a slap in the face to the wicked Arius, he was deprived of the priesthood, the Savior Himself and the Mother of God brought Nicholas the Gospel and the omophorion - signs of hierarchical dignity. This event is called the Nicene miracle and is depicted on almost all the icons of the saint. Saint Nicholas died about 345 and was buried in the city of Myra in Lycia. In 1087, when the Turks took the city, his relics were transferred to the Italian city of Bari.

Local veneration of the saint began immediately after his death. In Constantinople, his cult took shape in the 4th-7th centuries. The veneration of St. Nicholas came to Russia with the adoption of Christianity, and from the 11th century it became widespread. The iconographic type of St. Nicholas of Zaraysk is a full-length image of the saint with his arms spread apart: the right hand is folded in a gesture of blessing, in the left is the closed Gospel. According to A. Poppé, the name "Zaraisky" appeared only in the 16th century. "The Tale of St. Nicholas Zaraysk" describes the history of the ancient miraculous icon that has not survived, which was brought from Korsun through Novgorod to Zaraisk in 1225. In 1237 Ryazan was the first to experience the horror of the Tatar invasion. In "The Tale of the Ruin of Ryazan by Batu", it is said that after the murder of the Ryazan prince Theodore by the Tatars, his princess threw herself from a high tower onto the ground and "became infected (broke) to death." After they were buried near the icon of Nikola Korsunsky, the image began to be called Zarazsky or Zaraysky.

The spread of this iconography in the XIII-XIV centuries is confirmed by the number of monuments in icon painting and small plastic arts. In Byzantium, this iconographic type was not widespread. In Russian art, he becomes one of the favorites, which was facilitated by the popularity of the plot in literature. The earliest works: the icon of the first half of the 14th century "Nikola of Zaraisky and the Apostle Philip" from the State Tretyakov Gallery collection and the Novgorod icon of St. Nicholas of the first half of the 14th century from the Ozerovo churchyard.

The memory of St. Nicholas is celebrated on December 6 (December 19 according to the old style), July 29 (August 11 according to the old style, the birth of the saint), on May 9 (May 22 according to the old style, transfer of the relics).

Source: Zhanna Grigorievna Belik, Ph.D. in art history, senior researcher at the Andrei Rublev Museum, curator of the tempera painting fund.

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Olga Evgenievna Savchenko, Researcher at the Andrei Rublev Museum.

JOHN 4:5-42

5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? 13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. 15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no husband,' 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly. 19 The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. 25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." 26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." 27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?" 28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him. 31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32 But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." 33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.' 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors. 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own word. 42 Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

ACTS 11:19-26, 29-30

19 Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. 20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. 22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. 23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord. 25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. 26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. 29 Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea. 30 This they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

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💛Book♥️of🩵LOVE💚 - "The book of love"

Originally written by Padre Pio - Here it is:

Ready ?

Book of Love

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will learn what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

Originally written by Padre Pio, published with the help of Luigi Gaspari & abridged and revised by U.D.U. Dragomir.

April 1968 - Padre Pio tells Luigi. "The words in the book of love are written in/from heaven." They decide to include this excert from the bible on the opening pages afterwards.

"Then, I had seen an angel, powerful, commnig from heaven. The angel was wrapped in a cloud, in front of the angel a rainbow. The angels face was a sun and it's legs as if pillars of fire. The angel had a small book opened in it's hand. The angel had put it's right foot in the sea, and the left on the eart.

Then I heard the voice of heaven again. The voice spoke and said "go!, take the open book from the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and the land".

I approached the angel, and requested to be given the little book. The angel replied to me "take the book and eat it; it will fill you belly with bitter but in your mouth you will taste the sweetness of honey".

I took this book from the hand of the angel and I ate it. In my mouth was the sweetness of honey, but as I swallowed it, I tasted the bitterness.

Then the angel said. "Still the prophecy must be fulfilled, to speak to nations, people, and kings."

Revelations, Chapter 10.

Now for the book of love.

And so springtime blossoms, our very own spring. When we leave the winter behind, with all of it's dryness and ice. The winter that carrys with it our worries and shows us our delicacies.

We have healed, and shaked the winter off us. Now it is easy to foresee what we will occupy our time. It is a freedom free of the old worries.

Our friends that we have loved have betrayed us. We have left them free to leave, to passionalty chase after their own allusions.

Now time is ours, time for our own springtime.

Now either alone or with others, can joy for the fruits of happiness and happiness for reinvigorated energy be expressed.

The longing for our old friend is gone. Better said those that have betrayed, are without us. Our love is alive because those that have betrayed us have returned. Love can be shared now, better than before, because now we are better prepped for it, than before.

We are wealthy in knowledge & pain. Our love is the kind that can be known and appreciated.

We continue journey freely, in the presence of our accumulated wealth. Peacefully we will rejoyce of the harvest we reap and calm we will observe what happens around us.

It is worrysum, the destruction of those who think they can oppose the greater good. It is the down-fall of those who chase after allusions.

Though, the evil with-in their hearts is unknown to us.

We see faces without light, that accuse to avoid being accused. We walk righteously on the path, and we will see further.

Above good & evil, there is a great crusade to partake in. It is a crusade for life, our own lives. A life which will be the center of strength, love and happiness for eternity.

Gods power works with the will of the people.

This will provokes power.

But people judges each other.

Love means to forgive every person for every sin.

(To my dear friend Luigi, for your birthday, to show you my love and acknowledgement. To give you courage and strength to take my heart into the world).

A note written by Padre Pio to Luigi before the next 'chapter'

Bologna, 8th-9th April. 1968

Tonight I need to talk, please listen.

I want to share important ideas about our love to help make it easier to understand.

We are in the heart of all, and our love lives through the heart of others. We are endeared to live where we are welcomed.

Our love unites love.

Bonds are broken without us and any union is called love only with our presence and the heart of heaven.

Our love is free of evil and grief, it is pure, full of joy. Joy exists only in us. Love will lead us to know the uselessness of our greed and of our temptations.

I want to help people understand that all we are looking for is inside of us. Why should we worry, why ?

Listen to love and you will find all that you need.

Much more generous than is believed are the gifts of love, and it gives much more than is asked of it.

What do we what from love ? Ask and we shall recieve.

Ask what? A good truth ? We get it first hand.

A neccesary evil ? Love is forbidden to provide it.

Love can give us everything, if we can give all of our hearts with open arms to love. Never has the world had an open heart. On many occasions we have given a piece of our love, but greed, and our desires have kept us at bay.

We need to remember that everything exists because of our will.

Many times we have hidden love, and held it for ourselves, and what has happened ?

We grow worried, tired, dissappointed, and sad. Always confused with no interest into why. The motive is our lack of love.

We, wait for a sign. A call to come out of where we have hidden. Love is here, if we call on it, and even more when we love. We need to help each other in keepin love by our side, because if we so desire, love it can be everything for us.

For us to want this, it means to surrender ourselves, our ego, or sine, the me & the I, to love. When we surrender to love, we are permited to recieve everything.

It is tiring to see the world as it is. Without the holy love that can nurture life, without the love only we can have for each other.

What we usually desire, is often only our own ill-fates. Rarely, do we know this.

What is truely good ?

It is a sound mind in a sound body, for a peaceful soul and a warm feeling of life in our hearts

What does warmth do ? It warms us, and it lights our hearts. Warmth gives us a happyness for living, loving and bringin love and warmth (and joy) every-where.

For real? yes, we know this well. Many times we have even lived it.

But why have we lived that feeling for so little a short of time ? Because it was love in those moments the magic that warmed our hearts. Love has done everything for us to let us know it, and to let us be loved, and then ?

It was unknown how or it was undesired of us to sustain love.

We have been free to follow other paths, and then ?

Look at the result. A world empty and dry and with no love, but still, it exists. It exists because even the smallest unoccupied corner is enough for love to blossom. It lives and waits there. It waits until a day when many suffer, so that we share the pain amongst each other, all of it created by ourselves. Our suffering makes us aid each other. Do we really need a call to arms?

We hear a call for help, and we run to help. How ? If we call for help, we already have help there. If we stay quiet, there is another way. What way ? It is a person, exactly like all of us, just that this is a person of love, in this way we are helped by what is in this person (love). Forever has loved helped us through these people.

What do you want to do ? Love can give us everything.

Nothing is impossible because everything is possible for us. Love belongs to us all, and is our kingdom. Thus, what belongs to love belongs to us all, so, why are there worries ?

We have everything love has, we just need to want them. And what does love ask of us ? It asks us to have an open heart.

Are we scared to open our hearts ? And to give back what ? It is a great ease to open our hearts. A kingdom of love is everything.

What is everything ?

Everything means knowledge, knowledge of us, and knowledge of everything that is to see, touch and feel (and eat). What we can know is unfathomable to us. But through love the unfathomable becomes knowlesge to us.

Why should we love so much ? Because we have been created, and we create everything that makes us more happy, more greatful, and more full of love.

Why should we ask to be loved ? With how much we grow in love so dus our happiness grow. This grows in us or joy. Love is infinite, and so love will always grow more love for ourselves.

Growing love, we grow our knowledge. With how much more we love with that much better we know, but; only those that can love can know.

What belongs to love, and only to love can be obtianed only with permission. The blessings we recieve are only charge of will. We need only to show our will to love and the rest and everything will be done with love. Because love is all.

The heart of heaven is a massive lamp that illuminates all of eternity. It is the fire that burns in us. This fire makes us live. Life exists only with the warmth of heaven, and the cooling of our hearts (when) darkened they become is warmed from the heat of the heart of heaven.

Every single heart is responsible for keeping a particle of creation alive. When dry, darkened and tired any of these hearts become. This particle should disappear, because the heart arbitrates everything.

What does love do ?

Through the heart of heaven we are warmed. The heart of heaven fills the void in our hearts. It sustains us, and sustains life through it's warmth.

Love is a reserovoir of energy, that intervines and stops disasters occuring from the mishandeling of the energy given to us by love. It is a back-up heart for us all.

What stops us from loving each other ? What keeps us from acknowledging each other ? Why do we want to control each other ?

It is an inconsistent mind, a constant storm in our brains, driven by turbulent (in the sense that they all flow from one to the next) waves of external thoughts.

The inconsistent mind, cools the heart and rejects love.

How ca we control the mind ? How do we hold it together ? Try to leave in silence all thoughts that belong to anything else but love and goodness. You have to conquer instability by listening to the laws of love.

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will love what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

When a person asks for a little love, give them love without asking whom they are. That love will bind them and with the love given.

The people whom are sent to us and ask for goodness and love, never send them to abaddon, for they are a part of us. They will be with us through the love that always gives.

We want to unite, to always be constantly bonded within our hearts. We are everything and everyone.

The loss of one of us leads to our reduction. We are bound together by binds that are imposible to see. Binds that lead to the heart of heaven.

Love is one. We are the scattered remnants of the infinite joy in heavens.

Be united and let nothing stray you.

We must be concerned for the divisions amongst us, the discrimination between majorities and minorities, races, nations (people) and species (oh wait, we haven't evolved that much yet).

Those that want to love will stand-fast. They will have be united, if we keep segragating it will be impossible to unite.

We must be gentle and kind to each other, helping and leading one another, but never casting away.

When temptation asks us to send away someone. Love immidietly intervenes. Loves intervenes with all of its energy to prevent it.

That is the will of love; that we all take one small step towards each other and than love will free the power with-in each of our hearts.

When we are far from each other, remember the memory of each other and in this way love will live in thy hearts.

Love will always be among us, and will help us unite. It will help us over-come our fears, and it will help those whom wish to segragate themselves from us. Love that can love someone who wants to seperate from us can defeat any obstacle.

Longing for love is the will of love at work. Love is much more powerful than any resistence. And we should desire to unite and to love any-one who trys to evade the bounds of love. Love knows how to turn any lost soul back. It is impossible to evade and here is why.

Love defends our rights for those whom have been loved and run from us. To run from us is to run from love. Do ask for help when you feel burdened. Love will immiedietly intervene in our favor, our unity is our will.

Bologna, 9th April 1968

"Today I am 24 years old; it is the middle of the night and I still feel close to everyones heart, and of Gods heart. It is God who has blessed me with 'happy birthday' and wants to keep me company.

I am a bit confused. It is hard to say why. I listen quietly to the beats of my heart, that is now so full of love for me. Am I worthy of this much ? I am certian it is to much.

God of course looks at me and conveys to me, and keeps m company, and so I feel good, satisfied. Tonight I feel as if the whole universe is with-in me.

What is this heart that beats in me ?

It is love and God that knows my needs, and my desire to have God close to me. In this night I could be sad, and certainly alone with my thoughts. Everything changed because I hear a voice telling me to be calm. This voice tells with goodness that tomorrow will be a good day.

Today is a new day, but it seems that everything has gone back in time. A past I have forgotten even exists, even in the heart of heaven. My childhood, my teenage years, and my maturaty are all here and I can relive every moment instantly. The only thing I lost is the memory of anything I may have done wrong, and a few unfaithful moments to God.

Buy why is it so imposible for me to remember my sins ? Maybe this is gift from God, a blessing to let me forget the bad things that I have done.

Certainly these words in my head about the heart of heaven are a calling to be brave, faithfull and convinced that everything will be set right."

What does love ask from us ?

It asks for nothing. It tells us to love as much as we can, and then our love lets us feel more and more.

Love will lead us to see and recognize not holy places but heartful places (another word lost in translation) and in those places we will have vision (we will see).

What do we give to those we love ?

We give them authetic friendship and all of our trust and love.

Love is our friend, the friend we have always searched for. It is a friendship that makes the friends of love to be our friends too, all whom wish to be honest, loving friends.

We should also remember those whom are anything but a friend, of course with love we certainly can become friends with anyone we desire.

Now love holds us, and love guides our every step and forbids us from running from the truth.

There are many diseases in the world but only one disease that witholds our understanding of the power of love.

It is an eternal ocean of blessings, happiness and wealth of which very few know of and no-one desires to benefit from.

The remedy is there, in the unlimited ocean where we can take everything and yet we take and have taken nothing until now.

What is good we have learned naturally, by Gods grace. Now we must learn to recieve and to request. The supply is endless and the blessings are infinite, and at everyones disposal ready for those that know how to ask and whom so desire.

To recieve we must turn to God; only one ray comming to the heart of heaven will bind us to the eternal supply for the joy of everyone. That ray is love.

Morning, 9th April same year.

At times love can make the heart a prizoner. It is important to be free of this penitenciary and to listen to your heart first. Your heart will speak and tell you what is good for yourself.

The love we have given and the love we have been given is always in our hearts. Our acts of love, all remaine and relive in our hearts. Listen to its voice.

Here we can find again all that we have loved and all that we will love.

Who loves, is loved. Those that love will truly know themselves. Love lets us bee seen. If someone cries, we cry, and our happiness is my happiness.

Pain from the knowledge of our mistakes is what provokes love to push on. Love gives us the comfort to ask for fogiveness (and to forgive) and, when we do desire, to try again.

Love is the salvation for all those that return and will return: the love that binds us is so great that in every day and every moment there is something new to see because we still have more to learn.

Our lives must flow the way they do, just like the lives of others.

Love forbids anyone to judge. The time for clean powerful words has come. We must become infuential through authority, to be better known.

Love will make its order known through the authority of those whom love. Love will make words breath inspiration and to lead.

That is what love asks of us, that is what love desires of us all, especially those whom serve love.

Love how-ever refuses to serve those that ask to be served, and pretend to serve mercy, love and kindness. When these people only want us to help them because they know what power love has. They know everything is in our hands and bow as proof to the acknowledgment of the omnipotence of love. But that is another path, one that is not made of love.

Love prefers people whom stand tall when in the presence of grace/peace. Those that pray for power are people less responsible.

Those that bow and pray, begging and praising, at times are completely void of love. Better said they want the world to beckon to their every whim and egocentrical desires.

To us, those that love, what happens ?

We are forbid to say no, and others come to us to obtain through us what is forbidden for them to pray for (either because it is unfair, unholly, or just beneath their merit). Furthermore we are saddnedded when they return to us with what only appears to be love.

This happens so that they will bound themselves to us. All that has been obtained through prayers and worship, all that has been taken through lies and deciet still belongs to us all.

Love defends the order of all and everything, and forbids any intelligence to pass judgment. Love condemns any form of demeaning because love is mercy and respect.

Love does for us more than we can see or believe, with love all of our sins will be forgiven.

We can be well and un-injured from the sinful desires that we have made in the world. We have been put into this world and in direct contact with its allusions to consolidate them.

We know how to change thoughts from good ones to bad ones (and the other way around). Our experiences are knowledge. Knowledge into how to defeath evil from our lives.

I want us to be without fear, fear is a sign of weakness and a lack of knowledge. Loves resilience is more powerful than any human promise and eliminates any transgression.

Just maintain love in your hearts, know that love will eliminate our weaknessess and love is our greatest strength.

Remember to never judge each other. Remember that love will help allevieate pain and sadness. Love is goodness

Love that is given brings mercy to the world. A great love will make us sweeter to each other. The benefits of love will attenuate any path.

Be extremely strict when offering love, because it will bind us. This uninion means that we have to let everything be done fore love.

When we have to right a wrong or to offer recompension let love freely take action. Often times love is blocked by our own actions. Our own intelligence can succumb from out-side influences, and from various beliefs. Love can see through the suggestions and see those whom make them and why, so just let love do everything.

Love does need permission. It respects our desires and mistakes. Love lets us live our lives in what ever way we wish: there are many paths. If we desire, love will show us an easier journey through life one free of risks, or it can lead us on a more beautiful journey through life. Love can be a great guide for our footfalls through life, but it does not have any concern for social posturing.

Love will prevent us from unforseem damgers. It can protect us from traps.

At times we already have all the blessing we seek, without ever seeing just how close they are; that is were love intervenes to help us open our eyes.

We mistakenly miss the opportunity to take what is ours, because other souls, or spirits hide or steal them. Ask thy heart what belongs and love will prevent others from stepping on your blessings.

Love needs us to be very clear, when love accords our wishes it has to listen to our words.

The words are engraved on our hearts, exactly as we speak them. It is important to meditate and think deep before having any desires. Try to determine everything desired free of any uncertainty, or fear that it may be something bad, its better to seek advice instead in those instances.

Our hearts will illuminae what is the most urgent for us to wish for, for the benefit of everyone.

Love lets us hear things simply and clearly.

Love can make us understand everything in a day, in a blitz, everything that we've wanted to know our whole lives. Knowledge of ourselves is possible only through love (for ourselves).

Love knows where we are from, where we are going and what we live for, because life is energy commisioned by our hearts to make us who we are.

This energy makes flesh that gives a face to a soul. A soul that exists before it was wrapped in meat. Our souls are just like Adams and Lilithes, and it gets to different people through different ways. The spirit transported by the mind, led by the heart. But the love in our hearts is the constant presence of God in us all.

If love can make a good heart, then the mind can drive the heart to excessive passion that can tarnish a soul. Thoughts implicate the mind to desires that kill the spirit of love in us. Without the spirit of love we are but victims and prey of our carnal passions.

These carnal passions help to divide and seperate us. They turn us against our brothers and sisters. But our hearts can save us, because it is a magnet that has been put in us. Use that magnet to find love.

Love is more powerful than any passion. Love is the light that illuminates the mind. The mind illuminated by love brings the holy spirit to drive intelligence and manifestations of peace and joy.

Everything for a peaceful harmony between mind and heart.

Rome, 11 April - Holy Thursday

The mind can be influenced, but the heart can only be conquered: a well conquered heart is the stronghold that breathes desires and commands the mind. Violence can never win the hearts of the people.

Kindness, goodwill, sacrifice, perserverence, and devotion are what wins/conquers a heart.

Pure violence consists of an never ceasing desire to enter into that heart. That death on the cross has opened us a path, and it has left us a key to open the path when it is closed.

It was given to us on a cross of wood in a moment of agony. The hope we had been given then is that one day we will return our world to a peaceful one. With no more wars, is based on the choices made then.

Out of the people whom have saved the world from ruin, among them were the diciplies of Jesus as well. The few remaining today live their lives to help others. They bring the mercy and forgiveness of our God much more effiecently. Choosen people continuely recieve a blessing to balance and to keep them steady against the chaos created by the dominion of ambigition and passions.

We have to acknowledge the source, the origin of our love.

It is pointless to ask why we do not understand. We could understand everything if we stop asking. The best solution for everything is to be calm and patient. There is light in all of us.

We will be enlightened when we are humble about what we know and what we have. When we stop bragging about what we know, what we have, and what we know. We all need to express only greatfulness/gratitude thankfulness and love. In those moments we can know, have, and see much more than we bragged about.

Our acknowledgment gives us the right at a love that permits us everything.

When goodness remains with a person that is free of the desire to find love or truth, or to know love. That person is an instrument used by love to unite us.

More so, the absence of love becomes a search, it makes us concerned that we lost it, or that we have lost interest, or love, or the will to never achieve our plans in life.

What is thought, stays, what is said, has been said, what is planned is ordered. Negligence is something that does not exist for us.

Love wants to prevent us from confusion or from adopting ideas that detach us from the peace and the enthusiasm we need to seek out and share the truth.

Be like a mirror of the truth. The truth a person wants to create is just their will to bring others to their decietful narritives. Any person that seeks a truth to impose on another person is a person that is only imposing themselves.

The power of the truth is the patients to watch the fall and death of what cannot live without the light of the truth.

Those that know of the lies of the world will fight with all of your spirits against these lies, and when the damage done by these lies becomes apparent. Loves intervention will destroy the false beliefs imposed by people with the desire for revenge or the desire to dominate.

When we accept a truth through suggestion, or force, or fear, concern, it means to stay away from love for the truth. We are led to all sorts of fabricated narritives and slowly can build ourselves a world of lies. From the biggest to the smallest lies. The lies that oppress our progress and those that provoke us to war.

Lots of good people do nothing, this is because their goodness prevents them from doing harm to anyone. Than to live a quiet life, they avoid standing against evil. The empire of evil will strike all, good people who do nothing only help bring more disorder and more lies.

Only those that refuse, those that fight, for themselves and for others, they need the most help.

Those that compromise, and toil with the lies of the world are void of love. We should forbid people to live in lies.

Do help those that pray for a signle cause; truth for justice, and love.

Prays with no point (pointless prayers) do not exist.

In prayers we meet. In a conversation that is a gift to our hearts. Our words spoken as whispers that create; they create a world. A world full of the love we wish to give. The spirit of love will create what our words ask for. Ones thoughts will become our thoughts and will show us everything we desire and think. The light from our eyes will reflect in the eyes of the world.

The creative words will immediately bring light to a person. The word addressed to the holy ghost is the spirit of love from the heart of a person to the creator.

It is the word that becomes prayer, acknowledgment and the gift/blessing of love. With the word and the gift/blessing of love a person can create everything that is good. When we offer everything. Then we can create everything we desire, with the love we express with words.

Thoughts that are addressed in silence are part of a very intimate conversation between us. Thoughts that would keep us at a distance are impossible to keep us away from each other. Love is always present, even if we believe or desire it to be absent. Love is present but invisible to heavy hearts that are devoted to conquering creatures or other things of a possessive nature, or hearts that hunger for power.

Through creation we have placed before us the dispostional order to find our creator. To find the creator in us.

Light & Darkness

None have bine high in heaven except for those that have stepped down (from their posts in heaven). Our children.

Those that are in heaven. And how moses raised the snakes in the wilderness, so must our children be rasied. And so all that know of God will be freed, but those that believe they are already condemned, for them it has been refused the name of the only son created by God. And how with this motive condamnation:

Let their be light on Terra, but people preferred to stay in the dark.

San Giovanni Rotondo, 14 April 1968

Holy Easter of Revival

The creator is present in everything that is created. Today I have been revived to bring our life to God. I have offered to sacrifice for every one of you, and God has accepted my offer to free us from death. My blessings can be found, and I will always show my presence to the world, in all of creation and in everyones return to the love for God.

From my heart, blood has flowed, and it has stopped living, to give my life to you. My life and my heart has brought a new uninion between us and God. My blood has become one with your blood. In the name of my blood, God has brought back love in your blood and your lives. Gods love for me has become Gods love for you. Everything create has brought us back and so we can have everything. Because in creation, there lay the love from the creator.

The desire to free what you love, for those whom possess it, is the only way to obtain everything. That is the law of our hearts. That is the law of love. To love what you have.

I have died on a cross for you. I had suffered instead of you. I ask that you love me for the love I have given you. I have been revived so as to let you stand besides me. I have returned to the kingdom of heaven to prepare the best chairs for you. I have taken my place to permit you to take yours.

My return to the world has already happened, it is a return where I ask to keep me in your hearts. My body. My blood, are all their waiting to be given. I cannot wait to be called to help, and so I still send people out into the world who can talk about me, and whom love to unite people. A person whom teaches and recites everytime you need me.

San Giovanii Rotondo 15 April 1968

Naturally it is impossible to live without light. Without warmth and love. That which is life. Life can not rezist the fear of the abyse. There is no peace in us without light, that which gives us knowledge and love, and unites us.

Psalm 98/97

Sing to God a new psalm. For God has done great things! Gods right hand and Gods holy hand have brought us Victory. God has made known the salvation of our nation.

God has remembered to love and cherish the house of Isreal.

All the tents on Terra have seen the victory of our God.

Make a sound of joy and sing a psalm of praise.

Sing praise for God with a lyre, with a lrye and the sound of a melody. With a trumpet and the sound of a horn make a joyful sound for the creator!

Let the sea scream, with everything with-in it; Terra and all those that exist on her!

Let the floods stop their waters; Let the hills sings their joy together with God. For God comes to judge Terra. And God will judge Terra with righteousness and people with equality.

Saint Teresa de la Avila

"I have herd the words. I realized the truth; 'What I do for you is not a little, certainly this is one of the ways you will be debt to me. All the evil of the world is because of the mis-understanding of the truth in the holy scripturs. All that is written in them will happen one day'

I have always believed this, that all the rest have only added on"

"And so daughter, how few are there that truely love me? If they truly love me, why would I hide from them things ? Do you know what true love means to me ?

It is to convince yourself that everything that does not satisfy me is a lie. You will understand with clarity everything you doughnut understand now with the benefits that will be given to your soulz."

"Though Jeses revived from the dead, the first fruit put to sleep. And from the death of a person, the revival of the death came from a person. And just like Adam every person dies. And through Jesus everyone will be brought to life. But each one in their order. Jesus was the first fruit, then all those that belong. Then comes the end, when the kingdom will be given back to God. After we have destroyed all the kingdoms, and authorities, and powers.

For God needs to be, until all are under Gods slipper. And the last under Gods slipper is death"

Corinthians 15, 20-28

"But everything is subjective, and clarity of this does not involve the creator of everything. For God everything is relative. And than when everything is, the son will come and belong to God just like everything else. For God to be in everything in everything".

I Samuel 15, 22-26

"And Samuel said 'What pleases Yahweh ? A holocaust and a sacrifice or to listen to the voice of Yahweh ? Yes it is better to listen than to sacrifice. To listen to footfalls is better than to eat the fat of the lamb.

For a sin such as divinity is rebellion, and stubborness is a crime of idoltry.

Because you have refused the commandment of God, God has refused you as a king

Saul responded to Samuel: I fell into sin because I did not adhere to the commandment of God and your words. In my fear of people. I did what the people asked of me. Now please forgive my sins and return me to my prayers and to God.

But Samuel told Saul: Nu, you will not return because you have rejected the word of God, God has rejected you"

Psalm 71/70

"You have done good things:

Who, God, is comparabil with you ?

You have sent me sadness and difficulties.

But you have given me life again.

You will raise me again from deep in the soil.

And again you will caress me."

Chronicles 1.17 16-27

"King David entered and in front of Yahweh, he said ' Who am I Yahweh God, and what is my home that you have brought me this far ? But in your eyes, God, it will never be to far to promise me that you will extend the home of your servant to a distant future. You show me as if I am a line of men, and this is, Yahweh, God, what you promised. Yes Yahweh, you are God, independent is You have made such a promise to your servant. Be happy with the blessing of your servants home, to always be in your presence. For you Yahweh have blessed, and will always remain blessed."

Psalm 105

"Do not touch those annointed by me, and do not harm my profits! Than he brought famine to the country, and broke the rod that was their bread"

John 3:15

"that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"

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