The Great Lent Message

Estonian Orthodox Church- Ecumenical Patriarchate

Big Week for 2010

Great and Holy Tuesday morning Service
(Monday, 29 March, evening)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
After that, when we arrived yesterday, together with the Lord Christ in Jerusalem, has reached the grand final and the week during which we are invited to leave behind all his life, and having no place in the resurrection of salasuses. Great and Holy Week is: “Jesus, who was loved the world that own, love them until the end” (Jn 13.1). Jesus goes to the end of their love against them. Jesus does not love people, not only his earthly life until the last minute, but he loved them to the utmost extent, completely, perfectly and completely. He loved them to the utmost.

Jesus is unique in that it does not have specific people, but the sinners. For my sake, for your sake. How is it possible that Christians have been inimpõlvi lost trying to understand the Church no ‘right’ sect?

On the contrary, if anyone in this world are guilty of shameful suspicions ridden, dust, desperate, he has a place here, among us, especially this evening, the service, which brings us together. He is our brother. It is because we like him, we can not cope with Christ, in order to be rescued.

“Behold the bridegroom Midnight …”. God is not about me, his poor disciples, far away. It is where I am. He shows me that I’m better than my sin. Only the true God so people can understand. Only God can truly do love their surmakannatustest supreme moment, to bear the cross for our sin and our condemnation. It is a great time this week, and Sunday: forgiveness, this chair with holiness.

Harsh words Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which sounds evangeeliumilugemises today, they are painful words “offspring sex” – as something that can not be heard at the foot of the cross. The more he suffers, it becomes thinner and halastavamaks.

The voice says: “Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him! “. He arrives. Wake up, my soul. Watch the wedding: it is iluehtes. Are you a wedding hall door is closed? Do you have clothes to go in there? My Savior, I ask you for it at the last moment the oil that discouraged their re-lamp, which is indelible. I know that I deserve only to refuse, because I can not rely on any of the good work, which would be best of me. I only hope in your mercy. See the Lord I will not be able to buy the oil and can not find clothes. Give it to me without charge and make his oil-white robe of my soul, I am a life in which you give to my teacher and my God. Amen!

Great and Holy Wednesday Morning Service
(Tuesday, 30 March, evening)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Last night we went to the same services to the bridegroom, the word, which became flesh.

This belief is a wonderful thing. This happy believer. And moves the infidels. Who we may be, in spite of his youth or high age, our weaknesses, ignorance and poverty, we say that Jesus is the same with people like me. He has lived in my life. It is eaten as daily bread. On the Cross He took the equivalent of death. He is one of us. That is why he can not take away not only sin in the world, but it can also be assumed. Its inclusion, and to wear it.

The sin of the world is not simply the sum of human sin. This is a total violation of the common humanity of the original expression. And it’s damaged, it takes the modernization of the sin of my personal sins: through the set up of my sins Jesus unto me your way. The more I grow knowledge of Jesus, the more I read and interpreted differently throughout his book of life, according to whether or not I understand, the reality of his sin and its gravity.

“Behold the bridegroom should be central at night, and blessed is the servant whom He valvamast finds, however, unfit for it, which he laisklemast says.” So we are in a sense a sharp set in a situation where our own lives wounds to show, no return: a real release is related to a real reversal. The groom to be central during the night to ask for our hands, our deepest secret, and most of the wounds, it must be to put your finger in our soul wounds. He must not only bring our sin to the light, but to speak to us to repentance and forgiveness. There is nothing to stop him, not prostitutes, nor arrogant jõhkardid. He calls on them. He should be in place for each of us to where we are totally alone, in our sin. And if one side murmur, she replies: “Why do you look at it look bad, so I’m good”

“Behold the bridegroom should be central at night …” It makes no sense to look far, God is not here nor there. He is within us. He is God in our daily lives. He sends us to our homes, our work. If you walk through our jalajälgedes, interferes with itself in our affairs, we shall suffer. He lives with us, our days and our sleeping öödes. He hears our talks, but also to our failure to do so. He does not like our left hand, which does not know what the right hand is doing. When we moved away from the other, it fills our loneliness. He is the one who takes care of our own secrets. With him are no longer secrets. Yes, Jesus The groom is the shortest way the human heart.

That is the wrong woman’s cry, which sounds like today’s morning service in the last salmstihhhiiras “.

“Patuarmastuse” kütkeis, pouring “nutupisaraid and eyes water” has decided it is a great sinner, in spite of their desperation turned to the Lord’s presence and mercy of an endless party. Patutegude its power, and without that he would have the courage to tear myself off of them, however, are released in his soul, distaste, anguish, õudushüüd. “Woe to me,” he shouts, “because the life of unbridled frenzy, I have received patuarmastus pilkaseks kuuvalguseta and night … I kissed your kiharatega and wiped his feet with the purest, the resignation of Eve in Paradise õhtuhakul heard the fear and hid himself. Who would reach my patukoorma examine the size and depth to your right decisions? Oh, and my Redeemer hingepäästja …!”

Ad conviction and grace, and grace of the act – this carries a high level of education and the beginning of Holy Week: the grace of expression, without conviction Sonata. My past and my present, as well as sinners, they would fall if seisusesse grace of God will be linked to the fate of the human armuplaaniga. I want to say here that the high conversion between the sinner and his God was carried out on Calvary. I do sin, Jesus dies. I do sin, and God-to-be outcast, a convicted offender. It is our salasuses vagameelel discovery of many more.

My Past and Present seisusesse of grace? Absolutely. While it may interfere with my true repentance and God’s forgiveness.

Dear brothers and sisters,

Esitagem challenge to anyone who does not care about the release of his. Let us take to heart every word of the gospel for sinners who do not improve your mind. But for the rest, then Let us say to yourself that this is part of the mystery of God, that even a sinner who does not return, showing God’s love for mankind, without being there at the crime go unpunished, or to find acceptance. More nothing. Only the Lord himself may one day be entrusted to us how this is possible.

With regard to us, then just believe it, and let’s hope the full obedience of God Let us draw the desired way. Amen!

Holy greasing salasus
(Wednesday 31 March)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

In this high on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays, we celebrate the sacred secret of the oil, which extends from the first apostles’ times. So we read the holy letter of James: “If anyone among you is sick, then he call a church they pray over him and present him with oil in his võides name of the Lord. Tõbise And the prayer of faith and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has sinned, he shall be forgiven. “(Smth 5,14-15). On this basis, says St. Simeon of Thessalonica, the holy oil salasus “to cure illnesses, re-establish the sick and raise the forgiveness of sins.”

During this service we ask that Christ would heal õlitamissalasuse through our soul and body. Reading the gospel of Christ, we see every time how much it stresses, first and then the body, healing the soul. This explains why a great week õlitamissalasusel is so important place in the church for the people and let them ihult the healthy or diseased. It is true that sin and disease are linked. “Wages of sin”, the holy Apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Romans (Rm 6.23): “Death is, however, the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Thaumaturgic Every time he suggests that we urgently change their lifestyle. “Look, you’ve been healed,” Jesus says to the paralytic, Bethsaida Pond: “Do not make the sin more that nothing worse happens to you!” (Jh. 5.14). Similarly, he says sending the paralytic Capernaum crowd: “Now that you know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, then get up, take up your stretcher and go home! “(Mt. 9.6). It is a testimony to the stretcher. It recalls what the man is cured the disease treated.

As far as us, then he does not want to forget, or we would have known, of which we are saved, that we are forgiven. Stretcher has paralyzed us with the sign. This reminds us of the most important, that we have changed internally, and that this internal change will also change those who surround us. This will require great courage and a lot of humility, that those people who knew us before we change, it can understand what the Savior has done to us.

Lord “will heal my soul” singing a song writer (Psalm 23.3). What does the Lord of my life? It improves it away. Improves away, it means healer. Remediation will take place only when something has gone lost or damaged. Katkimineku consequences of its loss or to be abolished. To say that the Lord heals fully in my life, it means that he must seek and to save that which is lost in me (Luke 19.10).

What has been lost … If sin is hopelessly broken made me when I feel that all the good things about me is gone, saving the power of the Lord pulls me out of sin and evil. Talk about the soul of illness or death, means to speak of such a person has reached that The Lord does not let itself as chairing the track. Recovery occurs when someone accepts the Lord to guide your recovery and followed him everywhere, which he managed.

Õlitamissalasuse is the first fruit of bodily healing. But the body is dependent on intact fully divine ettehooldusest. However, do not pay for physical healings occur yet in despair after the loss. God’s love does not leave anyone behind. The past century was teoloogiaprofessor Panayotis Trembelas wrote the holy oil of the following: “If the secret of the adoption after the ill performance of physical health can not be recovered, it is not always due to a lack of faith, but the divine for the maintenance armumajapidamisest, which acts as a patient with a good practice to be”. In other words, it happens that God does not do so in its wisdom, that the incidence increase confidence, patience and hope. Even if a person of their disease is not fully healthy, the liver never doubt that the spiritual gifts, which he salasuses that were dealt him to continue to work on healing the soul as the body.

James the Apostle in his letter states that the password is also given to the importance of forgiveness of sins. In this high and holy week, it is appropriate that we in particular, and in particular, we become conscious not only of human nature, but also its impact on our lives of sin and affliction. We are now in a painful personal experience to learn the meaning of true repentance, humility prodigal son coming home. We must renounce your pride, to return to the path of spiritual childhood, and broken hearts cry out to Christ, savior, who alone can save us.

It is a place on this sacred salasusel lubrication. If our repentance is sincere, it provides us with a restored corporal and spiritual healing. Let there be no kaksipidimõistmist here: it can not under any circumstances replace salasus pihisalasust. Holy Oils salasus tahmatutest sins and to cleanse us from sins, we have forgotten the last pihil beat or that we no longer remember, as well as the sins that we have meeltesegaduses swept by the head or just lost in thought and memory segadikus.

That would be so, dear brothers and sisters, a brief summary of how the infinite love, who is Jesus, the work within each of us to clean, which is lubricated, and provided that we are born with his heart, let the inner change. Tonight, Jesus calls us to increase the size of his heart his heart.

Only then can we feel God’s gift “, which is a gift that God gave man his Son. Amen!

Great and Holy Thursday. Divine Liturgy.
(Thursday, 1.aprilli, morning)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

This morning we are here to commemorate their faith at the heart of the case, in which Jesus gives himself to us leivana, which is broken, and the wine, which is shed.

We have come here to become a part of the rescue event tõelusest which Jesus gives his broken body and shed blood.

“Take, eat: this is my body, which is for you the forgiveness of sins … drink her all, this is my blood, which you and many of the poured … “The Holy Spirit makes this saving love of the event, which once and has occurred for us is always timely to any divine Liturgy, and especially the euharistial, we solemnly and a celebration of a great holiday on Thursday. Lamb of God is indeed in the world and life for the victim to the rescue. Jesus is where the bread is broken. And this is a sign of a broken household, by which we, his disciples, to know one another.

Body of Christ and the blood in the taking of his elavakstegevast death of part of becoming the place where our souls flock to it will ohvritall and the Lord a servant, we are part of his life, that all could live, and we are not only witnesses, but we have been invited to be part of it be. This is God’s ultimate gift that is given to us euharistias. It euharistias in which Christ makes his church, Holy Spirit, the love of settlement area in which the Heavenly Father’s will “do everything in everything” (1 Kor. 15.28). Amen!

Saving the suffering of our Lord and the saints memorial service (12 gospel). High and Holy Friday morning service.
(Thursday, April 1st night)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

“There is no greater love than he who gives his life for friends” (Jh. 15.13). This sentence contains the most complete, most kannatusloole deeper explanation of the Savior. The biggest love is the ultimate love. This requires making a donation to their death. Calvary is not justice compulsion, but compulsion of love.

Kannatuslugu Jesus is a historical truth. But it goes beyond historical time, it belongs to the time of Christ, which is wide and historical events. Christ mixed with history and a future moment in which we live. He implies an eternity of our people each time, this moment, and at the same time, the past and future. At the foot of the Cross we find that over the crucified Christ rullub throughout the world from dirt, death and despair on a wave of the beginning of the end of time limits. He carries every sin, every person born in this world, every death, every patient.

A continuous presence in the suffering of the Savior! Saints have always perceived that the suffering of Jesus is no ordinary past events. They have felt that modern. And Jesus is still suffering salasus, which does not show itself, which can talk, and only a rough analogy. Instead of stubbornly to discuss this matter in order to try to explain the many words which are only deplorable pobinaks, let us by St. Augustine: “Give me someone who loves her and knows what I say,” …

“… He knows what I say: because all of our despair have become the cross of suffering, Jesus’ anguish in an hour “once forever” and that is why everything is returned to life. “For because he himself is tempted to hit,” writes St. Paul, in his letter the Hebrews, “it may help those who are persecuted.” (Hebrews 2.18). God lives in eternity, and represent a great Friday and Easter Sunday a coherent whole, even though historically preceded kannatuslugu Resurrection, Christ suffering on the other hand it was not God, not only perpendicular to the hour of suffering, but it is still a certain sense. This is why the saints have said that they are human suffering, which bear the cross of Christ, modern. And it allows us to say that we are part of the power of Christ’s resurrection, since he has assumed all of our own weaknesses.

The Church calls us this evening to take the divine Savior’s love salasuslikku dimensions have to experience it for everyone, and all aimed at love, long resolve and patience, to measure its extent in which the progressing of our forgiveness in goat hearts, dip it deep, which we are concerned and healing in our own secret of the roots.

At today’s service, after the fifth gospel readings, Christ put into the grave. “Were you there when the crucified my Lord?”, Asks for an instant and sharp as a series of songs neegrispirituaalist. And we, whether we are there when our Lord shall be affixed to the cross? There, on Calvary, where Jesus is nailed to our side of the suffering, the suffering of the other side, the center of our own sin? There, on Calvary, which even now are being tortured, a mechanism for the cross Jesus was everywhere in the world and at any moment?

Tõttöelda Jesus on the cross, they are you and me and billions of “God created”, but distorted by people who are glorified again “like Him”. Not to anesthetized with pain, but let it carry the best-eluvilja, the fruit of love.

For today’s man who thinks outside able to achieve the biological survival of death, it would be madness. But in what life? Wisdom of the Cross is the source of the life of God within us, at any time if agreed to reconsider it, “with whom we torganud” He let us in when the pull toward you, if we remain steadfast, because he fights for us.

He let himself EEK kibuvitsakrooniga the show – the land law is an old curse-free purchases. He let his clothes, and smashed the tear itself rüütada purpurmantliga glances to fall in the leather garments, dressed for the transgression of Adam. Instead he kept this Skeptri pillirookeppi that your precious blood for our sins andeksandmiskirjale sign. Her watered bile and vinegar, the loss of the forbidden fruit of an insipid taste. He stretched his hands on the tree to be healthy treat Adam and Eve’s forbidden fruit, and combined with hands stretched out towards it, which was separated from the people and the angels, the heavens and the earth. He died the death to win. Stars lose their shine after a sign of mourning crucified. Crack the stones, after the crucifixion, the suffering that is life “Living Stone”. He went to the cross to treat the man entire life and death rikutusest. He rose from the dead and the resurrection of our presentation in mind.

My dear brothers and sisters,

Blessed, blessed are terrified man, who throughout this great and holy week will be able to depart from their everyday worries and become one with Christ in his sacrifice. Purified himself of any sin, and pray for a sincere heart: Arise, O Lord, and save us. Amen!

Matmisteenistus Christ. Great and Holy Saturday morning service.
(Friday, 2 April, evening)

Dear brothers and sisters,

“Holy Saturday, and a large” The Church tells us, “We celebrate the Lord our God and Saviour Jesus Christ’s burial, and His divine body in hell than in the memory.” This Saturday, we call the great, the “blessed the sabbath, when the grave breathes in Christ, risen on the third day!” Said St. John Chrysostom “in the same way as a great Holy Week and the other week over the throne, is crowned with a great Saturday this week.” That’s why we sing, that this day has been blessed with, among others.

One of the morning service, the fourth song troparitest states: “Today celebrates you for the seventh day, what you are old-fashioned blessed his resting doings, as I build up and update everything, the Sabbath in, and yet the work of doing, my Redeemer.” This is the seventh day, it is this day, which are among the blessed of all days, as it prepares for the sabbath of all creation as a new acquisition and announce in advance for the eighth, which is the Day of Resurrection.

But the first song, second tropar paints us a line in the image of what is sacred and great on Saturday the meaning: “O Lord my God, I will sing you a life of departure and the burial song for you, his burial in me eluuksed rid did, and his fatal death and the red sandstone outcrop killing people “… Good Friday is over. Land is no longer trembling shake, not explosive rocks, tree roots do not come out of the ground, the houses are collapsed, the temple veil, which greatly shook from fear, no longer inside Karis. In addition, a great silence falls to all creation. Jesus, it means haudapanek in particular, that he is really dead: His death is not seeming! He was buried, because he really “came to feel ‘death.

God is in his body, dead! This is a moment of peace when we can no longer be something inevitable! Jesus trapped in his inimlikkuses this moment, which is no longer any movement. This day is a day without words …

But this is not the end point. Jesus does not expect a grave omission that the Father’s strength, the power of the Holy Spirit would give it back to a man’s life. No! His love of the tomb is the most powerful moment: a moment full of “hope against hope for each”. Today a great silence is salasuslik time reduces to nothing the whole human self-love, arrogance.

Hell is full of meelekibedust, as Christ declares hauauni waking up to the right, which has fallen to the darkness of the underworld. What is more: Jesus descended into hell is the bottom of that divide, not only from being buried in the death of all those who have gone before him or after him, but he is gone, so too do all of us, who we are at this moment we are still between life and death.

Dear brothers and sisters,

Tonight the service puts us a choice: either to believe or not believe in Him, who has come. Get over the incomprehensible, because it is inexpressible in words, and let themselves take the salasusel, which is vastly greater than us. Salasusel whose meaning can be shown not to say that the experience itself, only God. That is why we decided to choose first. Choose whether to believe that the Son of God has come into this world, has died and risen from the dead. To choose and decide whether what occurred for so many years is really true, is it that goes beyond a certain ajaloolisusest, certainly includes a gift from God.

“Look,” says the Lord by the mouth of the prophet Hesekieli (HS 37, 12-13): “I open your graves and bring you, my people, out of your graves, and vodka with your Land of Israel. And you know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you, my people, out of your graves. ”

Christ is preparing to open our lives haudapanemisega your door. However, he leaves us a choice. Because we are just exercising their freedom we are called to be the resurrection people. Then and only then can the tomb of “the timing appears in” God’s presence in a habitat. Amen!

Great and Holy Saturday night service with a Liturgy
(Saturday, April 3)

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord

Throughout this period of Lent, and especially high this great week for us is revealed to us the wonders of God’s great love. But Beware! We can not remain only as ordinary spectators. Time reversal of Jesus declares our own hour of arrival. Bodily death, Jesus, our salvation by suffering, he now rests in all of its operations. And what would provide him rest for the earth’s crust, if not discipline, it is a huge disruption, which inhabits the death and called us patuks? Right there is the Lord rest his day, there he calls himself “resting place”, to be buried with us, to serve the fruit of his resurrection.

We know that in earlier times was baptized in the divine liturgy at usuõppijaid. This is evidenced by many today, morning readings of the Old Testament and St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans also used in the smuggling of their own celebrations. This mark is for us: to be invited to agree to an inquiry means to be “with Jesus” to get buried with Him and with Him from the dead to rise. Baptism is divided on the eve of Easter, because we have been through the baptism, as St. Paul says in his letter to the Romans (Rm. 6.4), “… buried with him through baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we can go to our new life, to live a new life.

“Okay, everyone shut up and stop the fear and shake … because, behold, the King of kings and lords to sacrifice himself to the Lord …” sings the choir in high gear at the time.

God’s only son was sent to death of him who proclaimed justice, reconciliation, forgiveness and love, he who forgave a lot, which was confirmed, and healed the sick in large numbers. He was sent to death because he bothered. Disrupts the activities of those who had the power. Those who had the shoulders of other heavy loads, which they do not want to touch näpuotsagagi. Disrupts the activities of those who chose to serve themselves. Disrupts the activities of those who have lived only for himself than being proud of their privileges. Yeah, he had the courage to face all those people. That is why he was convicted and sent to death, He who was sinless, He, who had done only good life: he who had never cast anyone away! And Jesus is still the case where there is suffering. It is where the denigration and lowered, and where people are deprived of the most põhilisematest rights. It is where people’s freedom miskiks are not kept in chains, or where human life to have no value. Every time a person has been plagued with pain and injustice of our indifference, or broken, he is not.

Thus we have reason to look at the spirit of the Son of God “being silent, horror, and shake.” We have reason to celebrate the eve of the angels in heaven and the faithful soul with the death of the field.

Angels in heaven hallowed it, because his death is the death of Christ, destroy, reached the depths of hell, having saved the world, and released the man. People dedicated to the earth, because Christ suffered surmapiinu salvation to humanity, the death of the death of his win. And the souls of the faithful in the field of death, it is also sacred, because Christ has descended into the lower sites just to make the final death of the government and the lower places in it. But what is surprising in that? Does it matter who took the trouble to die for us, was not our God. He who went wrong and evil from the world, he, “who made the empty graves,” He who through the “power of death has been abolished?

Dear brothers and sisters,

Hoping against hope for each, in our sole and absolute toetugem Savior divine love and mercy and we are tõuseme dead. Not tomorrow, but today, and everything else followed. Because if we agree to be buried with him, is already beginning to rise, “when the Lord wakes up at the same time as the sleep, and wakes up to us to be saved.” Amen!

+ Stephanos
Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia

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