I am very happy that you have taken to heart what I wrote in the last letter and you agree to behave well. May the Lord help you!
God has given this life because we have time to prepare than after death. This is short, that has no end. Although it is short, its course can prepare the commission for all eternity. Every good deed goes up there, like a small deposit, from all these deposits form a capital whose assets will determine the percentage of saving for all eternity. Who sends more deposits, will be much richer. The Lord gives to each according to his works.
Here, we should now worry about this: sending more deposits there that you can. And this care is not complicated or heavy, as evidenced by the same Lord saying, " My game is easy and my burden is light " (Matt. 11:30).
I have spoken about this in relation to the thoughts that trouble you to take away from your pain, as if you lived your whole life without purpose if you continue to live as you live. The structure of the Christian life is this: believe in God, worship the Trinity, in Jesus Christ our Lord, who saved us, and grace of the Holy Spirit and sharing in the dynamism of grace, the divine sacraments of the Church, live according to the commandments of the Gospel, inspired by the hope that God, for our little work, according to the measure of our strength and through faith in the Lord Savior and obedience to him, do not deprive us of the sky. you add all this because you see us in the spirit in which we operate, we are Christians. Others, in fact, they say, do, do, and others believe, I believe. E 'need each other: to unite faith with deeds and works with faith.
Our focus, however, will focus particularly in the fulfillment of the commandments. Already a believer? Put into practice the commandments, because faith without works is dead. And thanks to the Lord, because he liked to determine the value of our works, not according to their size, but according to our internal arrangements. Undertake, in most cases, to carry out the works according to his will, so that, if we put attention, we always operate in a way pleasing to God There is no need, therefore, to go beyond the sea - as claimed by the liberals - but to look around every day and every hour. Where you see the commandments etched , fulfill at once, in the belief that this work - and not another - ensures that you, at this moment, God himself.
Work to root us more deeply into this belief. As soon as roots begin to go down in the heart of its belief that peace was served Lord. This initiative includes everything. Even when they ask you about darning the socks of your younger brother - and you will do in the name of the commandments of the Lord, obey and help - it will be added to the sum of the works will be so pleasing to God for every step, every word, every movement and every glance, everything can become a means to live according to God's will and therefore a step towards the ultimate goal.
Liberals have targeted the whole of humanity, or at least all of its people as a whole. Humanity and the people, however, does not exist as a person because you can do something for them now. They are composed of individuals: doing something for someone we do for all humanity. If everyone, without turning his eyes to humanity in general, did everything possible for those in front, all men, on the whole, at any time, would get what they need all their needs and satisfying them, make the good of all humanity, consisting of haves and have-nots, rich and poor. It has, instead, think of the good of all humanity, and then turn off those you have front and comes out that you do not have the ability to operate worldwide, it ignores what is so special and it does nothing for the fundamental purpose of life.
In St. Petersburg told me about this episode. A gentleman at a meeting of these young people committed to the universal good - we were at the height of delusion liberal -, gave a powerful speech on love of humanity and the people. All they were amazed. Then he returned home. A man who served him, the Indispose since it opened the door immediately, then why not just gave him the candle, then something happened to the flue, and it was cold in the room ... In the end, our philanthropist did not make it more gave him a dressing down to the servant. That said, and this gave him a shot to the chest. And here is our young them: there was heated with love for humanity, and here he could not even deal with a man as it should. And, at the time of the first outbreak of the progressive delirium, girls, employed in a printing, often left their mothers without a piece of bread, all while dreaming of going back and working for the good of humanity . The downfall came from a breadth of vision too big. And 'better humbly lowering his eyes, look under your feet and tell how and where to turn next step. This is the fairest way.
again, I repeat that I am telling you this because you remain in your memory, protecting dall'annebbiamento leading progressive soul dreams.
Theophanes the Recluse
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