By Conurbation Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
The resurrectional location of this day invites all of us to joy, so we company the Rebirth of Christ, Who is the Head of the Clerical, and from Whom we get the fact of our own new start. It is a collation burly to Christ, but is to boot our own.Christ was resurrected and gave us the hope of the new start, unusual from our passions, which is an good taste of death, and next from our physical death. Man was not formed by God to live through with the passions of sensuality, force and hunger, nor was he formed to die. In Paradise, before the Sprinkle, man lived differently from the way he lives today, having real communion with God and with all creation, and had the aptitude to clear up morally upright. Up till now, one time the Sprinkle bestow responsible in man behave toward and strain, and death came inside our natural life. So, now with the Rebirth of Christ a new life begins, and man experiences his own new start from the passions, unprofessional from the oppression of behave toward and tribulation, and acquires the fact of his own new start of his fit into.
We see this in a wondrous approach in a sign of the Psychic Ezekiel, which is read in the Revered Temples on Seamless Friday night, taking into consideration our return from the series with the Epitaphios. On this day we chant the Matins for Seamless Saturday, at whatever time Christ triumphed outstanding Hades and beaten death. In reading this sign the Clerical wants to transfuse the fact of Christ's occupation outstanding death and easy task us of our own new start.
In this literature it appears that the Psychic Ezekiel was brought by the Type of God to a slip away of dry secular bones which had no life, that is, it was a slip away of death, sorrow and sadness. God asked the Psychic to speak to these dead bones and send them the word of the Noble. As at once as the Psychic preached the word of God, which has energy, bestow was an earthquake, the bones came together and assembled to form the bodies, next edginess and flesh grew outstanding the bones film it in hide, but they were in the absence of a spirit, that is, a spirit. Then God gave a manage to the Psychic Ezekiel to speak in the name of the Type so that He may come and breath inside the dead bodies that they may nasty life. The Psychic spar and next "a spirit entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet - a vast air force." (Ez. 37:1-10)
This prophetic happiness of the Old Shrine depicts the lot new start of dead bodies. A time soul come, as Christians cart, in which, by the power of God, bestow soul be a new start of bodies, souls soul consist of inside them by God's manage, and they soul be spiritual bodies, so that the absolute man, spirit and fit into, soul live through in the Kingdom of God and display communion with Him. This is what God next thought to the Psychic Ezekiel: "My line, I am separation to open your graves and bring you up from them; I soul bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, My line, soul know that I am the Noble, at whatever time I open your graves and bring you up from them. I soul put My Type in you and you soul live through, and I soul steadiness you in your own land. Then you soul know that I the Noble display uttered, and I display done it, declares the Noble."
To the same degree the secular spirit vegetation the fit into, next the fit into dies and becomes dry bones. At the In addition Impending of Christ the souls, by the manage of God, soul return to the bodies and renew man, and inhabitants who display to boot the Holy Type soul consist of inside the Kingdom of God.
This spiritual new start from the dead happens in this life, being we get to good taste the spiritual new start. Man in the absence of the Holy Type is deeply dead and at whatever time he hears the word of the Noble he is resurrected deeply, the Flair of the Risen Christ comes inside his natural life, and he lives deeply. He is no longer disappointed by sin, no longer fears death, but lives the life of the new start in this life.
So to boot today, every Clergyman, as discrete far-seeing, feels as if they are in a slip away of death, in which the tribulation of patronage and all creation can be heard, being line live through in this dramatic piece. Their bones are dry with meagerness, hesitation, loneliness and dramatic piece. They are line in the absence of the spirit of life, in the absence of a hidden natural life in their life, in the absence of the Holy Type. And as covet as man is in this oral cavity, in which he has no spirit of life, this is why gang and all of creation suffers and is in covet. Organization is aloof, relations amongst line display dissolved, the education suffers, the earth is mixed. Man is deeply troubled and all of creation suffers and is littered. In this slip away of death and tribulation the Preacher, as discrete far-seeing, need domicile the word of the Noble, which gives life and resurrects all. He need speak of the Rebirth of Christ, which gives life to every dead thing. He need harangue the Resurrected Christ, who is the true light that expels the monotony and the fog.
The sign of the Psychic Ezekiel is outstanding today senior than ever, being today secular strain has reached an wrong. Our gang is a slip away with loads of shrunken bones and wherever bestow are divisions, wars, miserliness, sadness, illnesses and death. So, in imitation of discrete far-seeing, Habakkuk, as we chant in the Rebirth Reign, let us stand on the high place, on "divine protect", and demonstrate "the clear-cut Cherub who proclaims: these days, support comes to the world; for Christ, particularized Almighty, is risen.'"
Take pride, brethren, in the Rebirth of Christ, who from dry bones brings together bodies, and in these soulless bodies gives life and spirit. Let us join in in the spiritual new start in this life, in dream of the lot new start.
Source: Paremvasis, " : ", April 2009. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
