Fr.Kyrillos
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 08:56 PM
Dear Friends,
Some contemplations by the Church Fathers on the Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus, specifically on the verses "Jesus Wept" and "Lazarus, Come Forth".
http://www.stdemiana.org/audio/sermons/ ... nglish.mp3
God bless. Pray for me,
Kyrillos
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Our continual mistake is that we do not concentrate upon the present day, the actual hour, of our life: we live in the past or in the future; we are continually expecting the coming of some special moment when our life will unfold itself in its full significance. And we do not notice that life is flowing like water through our fingers, sifting like precious grain from a loosely fastened bag.
Constantly, each day, each hour, God is sending us people, circumstances, tasks, which should mark the beginning of our renewal; yet we pay them no attention, and thus continually we resist God’s will for us. Indeed, how can God help us? Only by sending us in our daily life certain people, and certain coincidences of circumstance. If we accepted every hour of our life as the hour of God’s will for us, as the decisive, most important, unique hour of our life -- what sources of joy, love, strength, as yet hidden from us, would spring from the depths of our soul!
Fr. Alexander Elchaninov, Diary of a Russian Priest
