My beloved spiritual children in Christ Our Only True God and Our Only True Savior,
CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE. Ο ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΕΝ ΤΩ ΜΕΣΩ ΗΜΩΝ! ΚΑΙ ΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΤΑΙ.
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THE SAYINGS OF MOTHER GABRIEL (Part III)
(From Mother Gabriel, The Ascetic of Love)
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- Do you want to Pray? Prepare yourself to meet the Lord in secret.
- By God's Permission, some people become instruments of the Power of Darkness for our own testing and progress.
- If one can live in the world and yet not mix with it - just as the oil and water do not mix in the oil-lamp - then he can live in God. He is in the world but not of this world.
- We are all vessels, sometimes of Light and sometimes of Darkness.
- Keep your mouth shut in the hour of crisis, when a problem is acute. Do not say anything, because you may regret it a thousand times. Instead, tell it to the Angels so that they may place it at the Lord's feet, and pray the Lord for an Angel of Peace to calm your soul.
- If you ever feel fear in your heart, close your eyes and say the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner."
- Do what you must do, and God will do what He must do.
- We ourselves cannot get rid of any of our faults. He takes them away from us, one by one.
- We should ask God every day to break our will and make it His, so that we may become as He wants us to be.
- The Grace of God comes when we raise our hand. It is Faith that draws God's Grace to us. God is 'pouring down' His Grace, but where is the hand reaching out to receive it? Instead, we are wearing hats or carrying umbrellas...
- O, Lord! Forgive us if we sometimes walk in pride, like little cockerels that think they are great.
- Poor human beings! We consider the perishable as Immortal and the immortal as non-existent.
- How beautiful is the 'Mystery', the "Sacrament' of Tomorrow!
- A person takes his lesson only once. If he does not learn the first time, it means that there is something wrong in his subconscious which prevents him from doing so.
- The Lord said: Whoever wants something, believing, he will receive - As long as the request is in accordance with God's Commandments, that is to say, with Love.
- Do not deny other the crumbs falling off your table from the Bread of Life which is given to you whole by the Lord. So many hunger and thirst for Love, like Lazarus who fed on the crumbs falling off the table of the rich man.
- We have no right not to reflect the Light of the Lord. Nothing should be left in the shade, 'under the meal-tub.'
- Everything has two sides, like a two-edged knife. What creates today, destroys tomorrow. 'Let him understand, he who may understand.'
- Some of the sailors on a ship may quarrel and fight each other, but the ship sails on and reaches its destination. The same is true of the Church, because Christ Himself is at the helm.
- We must not 'surrender' to His Will. This is what soldiers do. We, who are His Children, must offer Him our own will along with all our being - in whatever pitiful state we may be - and tell him: "Lord, take all my faults and imperfections and set them right."
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"Glory Be To GOD For All Things!"--Saint John Chrysostom
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With sincere agape in His Holy Diakonia,
The sinner and unworthy servant of God
+Father George