The Lord God has, so to say, shared His eternal life with us: we are all made godly by His most pure Body and Blood, united to the Divinity. I have said ye are gods: and ye are all the children of the most Highest (Our Father, Which art in heaven). Ought not we also, in accordance with His will, to share that which serves to the support of our souls and bodies, our mind, our knowledge, our material property, with our neighbors, for did not He Himself promise us, not a diminution, but an increase of the talents entrusted to us and returned by us? With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. If God has received us into communion with the Divinity, into the communion of His Body and Blood, then we, likewise, ought to have all things in common, without, however, encouraging idleness and slothfulness — that is, the rich should help the poor, bestowing as much charity as possible; they should receive strangers, visit the sick, comfort the afflicted, instruct the ignorant, teach the erring, forgive offences, remembering that we are all Christs. And Christ shall recompense for all and for everything. For I was an hungred, and ye gave Me meat. And so on. St John of Kronstadt My Life in Christ
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:33:48 +0000
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