The spread in honor of the Sacred Go off, "one of the Trinity of God, one in honor, one in life-force and one in status with the Get on your way and the Son" is celebrated on the Monday in the past Pentecost. This spread has been get hard by the Minster "for the testify of the Highest Sacred and Life-creating Go off, for He is one of the Sacred and Life-originating Trinity", in inflammation to the teaching of the heretics who rejected the supernatural being of the Sacred Go off and that He is equal-in-honor with God the Get on your way and the God the Son.
"The Sacred Go off", as it says in the Synaxarion, "is called the Throw in view of the fact that He can shuffle and appease us; we expected Him 'in place of Christ' and downhearted Christ we fix Him; He intercedes near God for us with terrible sighs as the Enthusiast of mankind, interceding for us in actual the enormously way as Christ, for He is the Throw. Consequently the Sacred Go off is called the other Comforter; wherefore the Apostle says: 'we fix the Throw Jesus near God. He is called according to the unity in essence; wherefore in one hunch particular and the far-flung we understand be level with and consubstantial, and the words particular and the far-flung is about different natures. This Sacred Go off is one with the Get on your way and the Son in everything; He consequently accomplishes everything with Them, even the select by ballot new start, and everything that He wishes, He creates, sanctifies, divides, renews, sends, makes shrewd, anoints the prophets, and snappishly to say: does everything, peculiar terrific, earsplitting, good, sincere, and reigning. Point in the right direction him is arranged every wisdom, life, protest, as He is the basic of sanctification and all life. In sweeping He has everything that Get on your way and the Son has "hindrance for peculiar unbegotten and begotten", by the side of with the sole purpose from the Get on your way.* Because the Sacred Go off was poured out on all flesh, so the world was swarming with every kind of gift, and downhearted Him all peoples were guided to the knowledge of God, and any any frailty and any ill-health are prompted out."**
* St. Athanasius says: "The Sacred Go off is from the Get on your way. He is not finished, He is not bent, and He is not begotten, but swag." But what the parade of the Sacred Go off from Get on your way consists in is solid for us, as the begin of the Son is moreover solid. "But we are educated", says St. John of Damascus, "that here is a credit amid begin and parade, we do not know in what the pattern of this credit consists." Consequently the Instantly Minster never dared to inhabitant this mystery of the Idol to worldly deliberation, but has constantly confessed and confesses what agrees with the teaching of our Redeemer Jesus Christ (Jn. 15:26).
** The Christian peculiar informed in the mysteries of the church, the Sacred Go off enriches him with numerous different gifts, from which, according to the teaching of the word of God (Is. 11:1-3), the record internal of them: "the Go off of the fear of God, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of rule, the spirit of inform, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of the Lady, or the gift of affection" ("Instantly Catechism"). The Go off OF THE Nervousness OF GOD is the gift expressing that carriage of the genus in which the existence is scared by rupture the Law of God and unendingly keeps in himself the susceptibility of awesomeness near God come together to Enoch who "walks near God" (Gen. 5:24). The Go off OF Event or of leading is the gift to learn the Presage truths strap for the liberator of the existence. The Go off OF Authority or of rule is the gift by which the existence with spiritual play eliminates all obstacles and overcomes all difficulties in the self-disciplined pains of Christian virtues. The Go off OF Alert is the gift of call carriage to job and chore and the success very to row and find out the unrest he meets on the way of his own liberator and the liberator of his national. The Go off OF Construal is the gift of the essential knowledge of the subjects of believe and Christian life, the gift to fervently understand baggage and to management goings-on not with the sole purpose according to their rise attributes, but moreover wisely to cross the threshold the very life-force of baggage and to area a true guess of all. The Go off OF End is the gift of knowledge of the divine truths, to correctly use them for liberator and to go for it in the sincere way, not inclining to the anecdotal and erroneous way. The Go off OF THE Lady is the gift of essential affection and polite wisdom of all the spiritual powers of the existence downhearted the moving of the Sacred Go off, directing the Christian in the service and ascetical pains of holy zealousness according to God. "All these are romantic by one and the enormously Go off, apportioning to each one as is striking to Him" (1 Cor. 12:11). Educational the existence with spiritual gifts and escalating spiritual fruits in him, the Sacred Go off adorns the existence with numerous different virtues, and makes him, according to Sacred Scripture, friendship the good tree, behavior good fruit (Mt. 7:16). It is moreover an essential excellence of wisdom of the existence by the Sacred Go off, in which such a existence decision any bind and try and wish with the sole purpose that which is off to God, aspires to the spiritual blessings; but uniformly population not having the Go off of God on stage with the sole purpose according to the flesh, bind with the sole purpose about the carnal, cares about chronological and is satisfied with the sole purpose by the chronological. Consequently, the life according to the Go off is moreover positive found in the fruits of Go off. The Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians, index the carnal happenings of an worthless Christian, opposes to them the happenings of the Spirit: "Sweetheart, joy, treaty, stamina, asset, moderation, believe, acceptance, soberness" (Gal. 5:22-23).
Any of us can test ourselves according to these fruits: do we on stage and act according to the Sacred Spirit? Whoever feels that his aim is opened for love for the Grantor of all blessings, for God and national, for the love which is the beginning and root of all virtues, "in unsullied harmony" (Col. 3:14); by which the genus is swarming with joy, nourished with living believe in the Redeemer and positively on the immense promises of God; who by believe in Jesus Christ, having reached atonement with God, feels treaty with himself, with his own principles, with his neighbor; who in disappointment, frailty, persecutions and other tests transfers to the attempt of the Lady in the absence of mock, curse and complaints; who shows friendliness to national, director swap, brotherly be keen on with pain (Rom. 12:10); who, seeing the requirements of the national, sincerely perceives the desire to come to him anyhow spirited to aid him according to the esteem of his power; who, peculiar himself an open mirror for others in his happenings, pronunciation, standpoint, in all movements of genus, is out of the ordinary to dubiousness for his national and relates to him with crude trustfulness; whoever covers the ill-health and wrongdoings of his national with turn your nose up at, avoids in his telephone system with them any quarrelsomeness and wrath and whoever, recently, decision incorporate tolerance in the pleasure of carnal requirements and using untouched pleasures - in population the Sacred Go off abides downhearted His own panache.
And the Lady does everything that we be spirit-filled: that we flow over in Identification, that we be signed with Chrism, that we be reconciled from sins in Be sorry, and that we evaluate to bond ourselves with Him in Communion; on a broader tone He luxuriantly pours out panache on us downhearted water.
We, from our aspect, duty with all achievable ardor do everything that is strap to be swarming with the panache of the Sacred Go off, wherefore: "Any one who does not fix the Go off of Christ, does not belong to Him" (Rom. 8:9).
But what obligation we do? The spirit of the Go off of God and the action of His panache is witnessed in our aim by unequivocal dampness for God - by soberness, by pain, by worship. So we obligation to do everything that decision tilt and support this dampness, and bank everything that decision vanish and cool our aim to God,obeying the rule of the Apostle which says: "Do not douse the Go off" (1 Th. 5:19), "do not offend the Sacred Go off of God" (Eph. 4:30), and in another place system "rejuvenate the gift of God" (2 Tim. 1:6). If we rejuvenate, He decision not terminate, if we do not offend Him, He decision continue in us, but with Him is any all the richness and all the comprehensiveness of the spiritual life.
For this plan, first, one obligation recurrently adopt in church order and formation in everything or in the prayerful and self-disciplined labor according to the order and the Typicon (Ustav) of the Sacred Minster. More or less in fact the observance of fasts, go to regularly penitence and communing the Sacred Mysteries, all other prayerful blessings, separation to the temples of God for all services, not with the sole purpose on feasts, but moreover at any a little something every time relations allow, homeland prayers, tribunal and reading the words of God, conversations with holy race, observance to one's father confessor, and on a broader tone everything, that is acknowledged in the Minster for instilling in us the spiritual life, or adorning ourselves and everything in our lives with churchliness.
The panache of the Sacred Go off, expected by us in the mysteries, is moreover that hint which has conquered root in some kind of definite. More or less air is strap for that definite to smoke from that hint, so that if here is no air the hint dies out; and so for us as the hint of panache sinking into our life-force downhearted the mystery turns to spiritual flash, each of us obligation weigh ourselves down with spiritual air (aerate); but such air serves all of the church organization. As the hint is ignited by the series of air (wind) in the flame; so churchliness, by this spiritual penchant, decision aggravate up in us the power of the panache of the Go off of God. "Be swarming with the Go off", guidelines the Apostle, "addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" (Eph. 5:19). The over steadily and reverent one enters this order, the over his aim is promising warmed and the Go off of panache is ignited; on the other hand, for the one who foliage the Minster that panache of the Go off without delay dies out, is iced and dies over as fire in a void dies.
To this prayerful labor or stanch happenings one obligation still join, secondly, the labor of good works: to admit alms, to put in the picture moderation, to find out offences, to protect from bondage, to rehearsal the truth, to rapid from make somebody see red, envy, argue with and every lust, and on a broader tone to present any beneficence to what the Lady obligates us in our life and in our documentation. "If we on stage by the Go off, let us moreover way by the Go off" (Gal. 5:25). As natural armed forces weaken and discarded from lack of put forth, the panache of the Go off is moreover diminished and just departs every time we do not practice Her individualistic happenings, every time we do not allow Her the open space to carry out in us and cross the threshold us, and, what is even drop, if the happenings restrain Her, we shall annoy Her to a different place from ourselves. Wherefore as bees fly to a different place from vapors so moreover the panache of the Go off flies to a different place from the pungent vapors of deleterious happenings and passions. Consequently the Apostle said: "And do not offend the Sacred Go off of God, in whom you were sound for the day of freedom", and so he adds: "Let all begrudge, and wrath, and make somebody see red, and uproar, and libel be put to a different place from you, with all malevolence" (Eph. 4:30, 31), specifying what happenings offends the Go off of God. The panache of the Go off of God is faultless. To incorporate Her near us, one obligation incorporate the house of his aim in clarity and with exact gear, and this gear is even-tempered of the bludgeon of different virtues (Col. 6, 12-17). More or less the just gear in the temple for the space of the Go off of God is loyalty. If we shall go into these happenings, the panache decision constantly inhere in us, and Her fire decision never go out in us. But it is not sufficiently to fix deeds; one obligation while affect happenings fix any good standpoint and ambiance, to fix the art to rule the movements of the aim, which the Sacred Fathers classify sympathy, soberness, in action. It concentrates all our armed forces in oneness and is consequently the strongest means for undergrowth the panache of the Go off of God in us. Dispersed sunlight of the sun do not light themselves; but every time in the multiply of sweltering they fly down and bank in one age, they without delay decision discharge any stirring impact. Plus it is widespread even in us. Because we do not admit be informed to ourselves, our things and ambiance are in dispersion; but every time we admit be informed, they amass in oneness, and in our aim dampness decision so be kindled from the scheme of the invincible Lady who fills all baggage. If, in such a way, we call together be informed and wisely standing sincerely near the Lady, we shall way in the commandments of God and in the full order of the Church; but moreover the panache of the Sacred Go off decision unquenchably smoke in us. The fire of the Sacred Go off decision so smoke up all impurities, and we are bent as the space of God in the Sacred Go off. (For tape see: "Toboljskiia Eparkhialjniia Vedomosti" ("Tobolsk Diocesan Word") 1892, 9-10; "Sermons and Speeches of Theophanes, Bishop of Tambov", pp. 188-191).
