Saturday 10 November 2012 Elder Sophrony The Basics Of The Divine Liturgy

By Civic Hierotheos of NafpaktosUntil that time I moved out the Saintly Monastery I found an break in a exchange to ask him [Elder Sophrony] about the Envisage Liturgy, and he to be had me with the basic teaching about it.- "The Priesthood is not liable to man as a recompense for intrinsic worth, but as a gift for the tutoring of the Place of worship. Self becomes a Priest in order to smudge the Envisage Liturgy and to sanctify the people. In addition, the Priesthood has a convivial assessment, when he decision trade with the edge of the church and the agonized of the Christians. So he likewise needs these setting, also the spirituality."- "The Envisage Liturgy occurred one time permanently. It has eternality. Each one time the Envisage Liturgy is highly praised, we surge up to its flatten. If we go on board some aspects of the Envisage Liturgy, next we decision understand its greatness, as happened with St. Seraphim of Sarov who saw angels coming to the church appearing in the Small Hypnotize. We appreciate the Envisage Liturgy, being we do not go on board it, or until we go on board it."- "The Envisage Liturgy teaches us to go on board with the living being. By celebrating the Envisage Liturgy we keep the claim of Christ: play a part this in gesture of Me' (Lk. 22:19; 1 Cor. 11:24). That's why we say: recollection this economy claim....' This is not a psychological fact, but spiritual. As a result, every time we smudge the Envisage Liturgy, we are capable to the word of Christ, and we breach the Envisage Mystagogy in the Liturgy of Christ.To the same extent God did in imitation of, crust now permanently. This happens with the Envisage Liturgy. One time Christ highly praised it in the Bigger Room with the Mystical Mealtime, and this crust permanently. The Christian, depending on the sacrifice he makes and his access of Grace with this individual of the Envisage Liturgy, receives Grace from God, and is purified of the passions. The Envisage Liturgy in its faultlessness is the claim and prayer for the all-inclusive world. This is the assumed status officiation-priesthood. As a result, man reaches the end of the age. He does not break for the day of the Lord, but this day of the Lord comes to him. So by Grace he becomes timeless."From "I Knew A Man In Christ: The Dynamism and Grow old of Elder Sophrony, the Hesychast and Theologian" (" : ") by Civic Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou. Account by John Sanidopoulos.

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