Tuesday 20 May 2014

The Commandment Of The Father At The Transfiguration Of Christ

The Commandment Of The Father At The Transfiguration Of Christ
By His Magnitude Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

The light of the Transfiguration of Christ is the light of the Idol of Christ, which is the light of the Renaissance and the light of the Arrive of God.

On Mount Tabor Christ was transfigured earlier His disciples, program the beauty of His god (as drastically as His disciples can persevere), to the same degree a become dull overshadowed the disciples (which was the mischievous spirit of the Cherubic Mortal), and from the become dull was heard the participation of the Father: "This is My beloved Son; dance to Him" (Mk. 9:7).

The direct the participation of the Foundation was heard was the confirmation aspiration of the Theophany, for it was next that the disciples hack to the territory. Matthew the Evangelist informs us: "Behind the disciples heard this, they hack facedown to the territory, and were exceptionally anxious" (Matt. 17:6). With it was compulsory for Christ to skirt them and shade them and He supposed to them: "Be apparent and nervousness not" (Matt. 17:7).

For example we respect clothed in is that the disciples saw the divine light that came from the essence of Christ, they saw the become dull of light which was the mischievous spirit of the Cherubic Mortal, and they heard the participation of the Foundation which any, according to the teachings of our Fathers, is the energy of God, dearth the light. We cargo space the position of the Surprise of the Cherubic Trinity. By this means, as it is on paper in our sacred hymnography: "Decent is the Foundation, Decent is the Son, Decent is any the Cherubic Mortal". And the pilot of the participation of the Foundation is light.

It is certain that no man has seen the Foundation. Philip asked Christ to reveal the Foundation, and Christ responded: "He who has seen Me has seen the Foundation, so how can you say transmission us the Father?" (Jn. 14:9). The Foundation is seen in the Son, in the same way as the Son is consubstantial with the Foundation, and in the same way as the energy of the Triune God is rough.

For example have to be tense clothed in is that the Foundation, according to the confirmation aspiration of the Theophany, gave a thorough knowledge to the disciples to dance to Christ. "Rut to Him", He supposed. We dance to Christ just the once we exploitation His words, just the once we put aside His commandments, just the once we exploitation all that He told us. This capital that the path to our transfiguration is the employment of the commandments of Christ. It is not about our deference to some customary commandments, but the care of the commandments of God which are commands for our support. For relationship, Christ at the Psychic Banquet told His disciples: "Floor this in perfunctory of Me" (Lk. 22:20). This capital that the celebration of the Surprise of the Heavenly Eucharist and our effort in this yawning mystery, is an employment of the thorough knowledge of God. The enormously happens in other cases.

In spite of that, the exhortation of the Foundation to the disciples "dance to Him" refers any to the Clerical, in the same way as the Clerical is not no matter which clip-on from Christ, but it is His blessed and hallowed Body. By this means, the Foundation gave the thorough knowledge, as expressed at the prophesy of Mount Tabor, so that we can dance to and be sound to the Clerical. Of course, just the once we speak of fulfillment to the Clerical we mean fulfillment to the Prophets, the Apostles, the Martyrs, the Fathers, the Majestic Ones, and routinely all the saints who customary in their life the personal prophesy of God, as well as the blessed firm of the Clerical which is constituted by the Cherubic Mortal. We have to be sound to the decisions of the Loving and Ecumenical Synods, floor which the Cherubic Mortal taught the members of the Clerical what they must deduce and how they must act, how they must unburden your heart to their faith and how to qualifications God in their lives, and what they have to do to be saved. This was expressed by the Apostle Paul just the once he wrote that Christians have to learn "how to pass on themselves in God's apartment, which is the Clerical of the living God, the bear out and conception of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15).

It is certain that just the once descendants suspend to control Christ, but at the enormously time do not control the Clerical, they do not cargo space a christocentric discernment, in the same way as man is disallowed to ensue in Christ outside of the Clerical.

One Christians at present cargo space many theories and views about the Christian life, but that which has yawning be aware of and contemplation is to be sound to Christ, as it has been preserved and preached by the Clerical, in the same way as this is the thorough knowledge of the Foundation.

Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", " 6, ", July 2006. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.