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Glory to Jesus Christ!
Congratulations on the Transfiguration of Our Lord!
This day the Lord called his favorite disciples, who had prayer with Him and had mystical contemplation. Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There they did a contemplative prayer (Matthew, XVII:1-9). There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters - one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah."
In this prayer the apostles experienced such grace as you sometimes feel when we pray. They felt the grace and no longer wanted to go anywhere from there, because in the old Jewish Church everything was backward: traditions, emptiness, idolatry. The same we have today - Moscow KGB heritage in the Orthodox Church which has enshrouded the whole Ukraine. At that time bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground being terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he said. "Don't be afraid." When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them not to tell anyone about this secret prayer and especially about who He really was.
Today we`ve heard the Holy Gospel, where the Lord was transfigured. And we should try to transfigure in our hearts, to be cleaned, in order to be able to see the Lord in your heart and be able to feel His presence among us, and transfigure ourselves for Ukraine to be able to transfigure it in the future. Ukraine can be transfigured only through its people, who hear the word of God and are filled with His power.
The world is very tempting, you should be wise, pray to your Guardian Angel and ask him to clean our prayers, pray to the Lord, and ask Him to protect our thoughts that will go to your feeling and desire. These feelings and desires should be only good, from God. Take care of the transfiguration in your hearts and the presence of God in us, for Him to fill us through the Holy Communion, sanctified by the Holy Spirit in order to be with us with His grace and His wisdom. We should be against bad things that are evil power of evil people, evil spirit. We should move away from them as far as we can, but not run because they can catch you. Let us be armed with a prayer: "God, give me forgiveness and love for that man" - because I cannot tolerate him. "God, give me forgiveness and love to this or that person" - because we live in this world and we do our holy affair.
Firstly, we should believe that God builds His Church Holy. Secondly, we should be optimistic, because there are good prophecies that Ukraine will escape from this darkness. It's difficult, to conquer the prince of this world. But God is stronger and He will tread the devil under and will press the devil to the ground so much that he won't stand up any more. The Lord has already paralyzed the Devil a bit, because we can pray freely without being persecuted, not like the first Christians. But this is only the beginning. Lord is stronger, He goes in His glory. The new era of Aquarius begins, the era of smart people, strong angels of God in human bodies on the Earth. They will come to rule the world; the Lord will rule the world through them. They know that there is God and we should not do anything without Him, should not take any thoughts before the prayer. In the prayer the thought come from God and you know exactly that it is.
In such a way we build something that will never collapse, because here He is - the Creator of the Universe, who had built the whole world. He will build it whether in politics or in economics or in education. Wherever we are, we must build everything with Him, with the Creator. We always have to try to be transfigured despite the darkness among us. We can mourn, weep, but we should not let the darkness in us.
Let us clean ourselves and let us be worthy of the Holy Communion, which we have received today - in the day of the great holiday of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ.
Allow the God to be in the heart of each of you, in your consciousness, understanding, and through your good works manifest to the world. Do you agree? We now come together with you, kind souls are collected. "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them" (Matthew, XVIII:20). It's difficult to find a real friend but there are a lot of us here and we are all with God, our number is growing. The number of us should grow in the name of God's Truth, because we need it, because we need God's Truth and God himself. Without Him, humanity suffocates. We need Him especially in the time of temptation. Let`s work.
May God bless you with His love, His grace.
Congratulations, dear brothers and sisters!
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Apostle (2 Peter, 1:10-19):
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10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your
calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will
never fall.
11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an
entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities,
though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir
you up by way of reminder,
14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon,
as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you
may be able at any time to recall these things.
16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father,
and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved
Son, with whom I am well pleased,"
18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for
we were with him on the holy mountain. /p>
19 And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to
which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark
place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
Gospel (Matthew 17:1-9):
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1 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and
John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like
the sun, and his clothes became white as light.
3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking
with him.
4 And Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good that we are here.
If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and
one for Elijah.
5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son,
with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."
6 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and
were terrified.
7 But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and have no
fear."
8 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but
Jesus only.
9 And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded
them, "Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the
dead."
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