On the ChurchIt’s solely within the Church that the Phrase of God and His instructing are totally heard; solely the Church is the home of the Lord on earth—there the cold sacrifice and prayers and hymns are supplied.
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St. Gabriel, Bishop of ImeretiBishop Gabriel (Kikodze) was born November 15, 1825, within the village of Bachvi, within the western Georgian district of Ozurgeti in Guria. His father was the priest Maxime Kikodze.
“>St. Gabriel of Imereti was a nineteenth-century Holy Hierarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church. He generously distributed alms to widows, orphans, and all in want; he clothed the bare and buried beggars, having mercy upon the least of the brethren. St. Gabriel was born on November 15, 1825, and reposed within the Lord on January 25, 1896.
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Honor this present day as a sacred day. On Sunday, we should always serve the Lord alone and do the works of God. Even monks laboring in a monastery, who go to church on daily basis and continuously pray, must also spend Sundays with particular reverence and purity. And also you, laymen, residing in a metropolis or village, might have gone six days with out remembering God and with the ability to fervently pray in any respect. Do you actually need to spend Sunday in worldly hustle and bustle too? If you do that typically, you’ll finally develop utterly chilly in direction of God, lose hope in salvation and the Kingdom of God, and earthly cares and sinfulness will utterly ensnare you. As a Christian, you need to have such a agency want and must be on the Sunday companies that your coronary heart and conscience provide you with no relaxation till you go to church. If the commandments of God aren’t engraved in a person’s coronary heart, and following them hasn’t change into his pure inclination and coronary heart’s want, we will safely say that such a person isn’t any Christian.
On Sunday morning, whenever you get up, pray at house, then go to church. He who goes to mattress on time within the night and rises early within the morning will spend the day totally, joyfully, for the nice of his soul. Attempt to learn the passages from the Holy Scriptures appointed for this present day, for getting ready this manner, your soul will most profit from the divine companies. After Liturgy, after having had some lunch, attempt to do some good and helpful deed, even the smallest: Maybe some poor and infirm personk—go assist him nevertheless you’ll be able to, however solely so that your proper hand doesn’t know what your left has carried out. Maybe certainly one of your neighbors is sick and grieving—go and luxury him. Maybe you could have some pal who loves to speak about non secular issues—go discuss to him about it, make him glad, and thus spend your time in a soul-profiting approach. On this present day, keep away from assembly and speaking with those that love idle discuss, gossiping, and tattling. Within the night, go to church for Vespers, and so rested bodily and refreshed spiritually, give your self to sleep, so it’s possible you’ll start your six days’ labor and each day cares within the morning. Know additionally that in case you commit even a small sin on Sunday, it is going to be ten occasions extra extreme, for this present day belongs to the Lord.
