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“By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan’s dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.”
“The Lord was born in a cave to show that the whole world is one dark cave, which He alone can illumine. The Lord was born in Bethlehem – and Bethlehem means ‘the House of Bread’ to show that He is the only Bread of Life worthy of true men.”
“Truth is not a thought, not a word, not a relationship between things, not a law. Truth is a Person.”
“Although a mother, out of her great love and sorrow, always has tears to shed, she takes her remaining tears with her when she herself goes down into the grave. The Lord Jesus, though, shed all His tears for His children, to the last drop – and all His blood to the last drop. Never, O sinner, will more precious tears be shed for you, neither living nor dead. Never will a mother, or wife, or children, or homeland, pay more for you than Christ the Saviour paid.”
“And they said among themselves: “Who shall roll away the stone from the door of the Sepulchre?” This was the subject of the Myrrh-bearing Women’s conversation as they climbed up to Golgotha, looking for nothing unexpected. The women’s weak hands where not strong enough to roll the stone away from the Tomb’s entrance, for it was very great. Those poor women! They did not remember that the labour to perform which they were hastening so zealously to the Tomb had already been performed during the Lord’s Earthly life. At Bethany, at supper in the house of Simon the Leper, a woman had poured precious spikenard over Christ’s head. The Omniscient Lord said at the time about this woman: “In that she hath poured this ointment on My body, she did it for My burial” (Matthew 26:12).” He had a clear foreknowledge that His Body would, in death, receive no other anointing. You may ask: then why did Providence allow these devout women to be so bitterly disappointed? To buy precious myrrh, to come fearfully through the dark and sleepless night to the tomb and not to perform that loving act for which the had sacrificed so much? But did Providence not reward their efforts in an incomparably richer way, in giving – in place of the dead body – the Living Lord.”
“The Father was revealed to the sense of hearing; the Spirit was revealed to the sense of sight, and in addition to these, the Son was revealed to the sense of touch. The Father uttered His witness about the Son, the Son was Baptized in the water, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovered above the water. When John the Baptist witnessed and said about Christ, “Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29), and when John immersed and Baptized the Lord in the Jordan, the mission of Christ in the world and the path of our Salvation was shown. That is to say: The Lord took upon Himself the sins of mankind and died under them [immersion] and became alive again [the coming out of the water]; and we must die as the old sinful man and become alive again as cleansed, renewed and regenerated. This is the Saviour and this is the path of Salvation.”
“Why did the Lord take only three disciples on Tabor and not all? Because Judas was not worthy to behold the Divine Glory of the Teacher, Whom he will betray and the Lord did not want to leave him [Judas] alone at the foot of the mountain so that the betrayer would not, by that, justify his betrayal. Why was our Lord transfigured on a mountain and not in a valley? So as to teach us two virtues: love of labor and godly-thoughts. For, climbing to the heights required labor and height represents the heights of our thoughts, i.e., godly-thoughts. Why was our Lord Transfigured at night? Because, the night rather than the day is more suitable for Prayer and Godly-thoughts and because the night, by its darkness, conceals all the beauty of the Earth and reveals the beauty of the starry Heavens. Why did Moses and Elijah appear? In order to destroy the error of the Jews, as though Christ is one of the Prophets; Elijah or Jeremiah or some other that is why He appears as a King above the Prophets and that is why Moses and Elijah appear as His servants. Until then, our Lord manifested His Divine power many times to the disciples but, on Mount Tabor, He manifested His Divine nature. This vision of His Divinity and the hearing of the Heavenly witness about Him as the Son of God, should serve the disciples in the days of the Lord’s passion, in strengthening of an unwavering faith in Him and His final victory.”
“These three witnesses represent three main virtues: Peter – Faith, for he was the first to confess his faith in Christ as the Son of God; James – Hope, for, with faith in the promise of Christ, he was the first Apostle to lay down his life for the Lord, being slain by the Jews; John – Love, for he reclined on the bosom of the Lord and remained beneath the Cross of the Lord until the end. God is not called the God of many but rather the God of the chosen. “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob” (Exodus 3:6).”
“His Resurrection is the proof of Eternal Life and the announcement of Eternal Life to all of mankind. His Resurrection drives away from us all confusion, gloom and sadness. His Resurrection instills serenity, courage and goodwill into the Souls of men.”
“Indeed, brethren, Christ is better than the world. The world gives little and takes all. The world offers decay and takes away life. Christ, however, seeks little and gives all. Brethren, Christ is our one and only true friend. O Resurrected Lord Christ, help us to renounce rubbish, to renounce decay, and grant us Eternal Life.”
“Nothing more real has come into the world than the Lord Jesus Christ; nothing more real both as God and as man. In truth, the whole of this world as separate from the Lord Jesus has an illusory quality. Neither the earth nor water nor air nor light bears a true resemblance to the reality that is His. Lo, it will all pass, but He will remain. He is in truth the foundation stone… and He alone, and those who cling to that Stone, will have a part in that… enduring reality.”