Greater Lent will last 48 days before the holiday of Jesus Christ. What can be eaten or what should we do, what should we do and stay away from? Endless barriers, the list of sewers seems to be extremely complex, insurmountable, but it's not to eat, not eating. According to Father Isaiah Artenyan, everything is clearer, not by law. We re-forget about the important thing.
Return to God
The commandment of the Lent was given to the man in heaven, but Adam was deceived by Satan, and ate the forbidden fruit, deprived of his paradise. What is it? We try to find the answer to the question throughout the Lent, often ignoring the original idea, while keeping the maintenance of God to correct God. It is an opportunity to reconcile with God, emphasizes the priest.
"Lent is our free decision to return to God. All roads leading to the Lord are acceptable. Everyone can have different feelings, approaches. Return the important thing to God, look to God. He will guide you. "40 days of fasting symbolize the four-day prayer, fasting and repentance of Christ in the desert. After his baptism, Jesus "was led by the Spirit and was tried for forty days from Satan. He did not drink and did not drink those days. "- Luke 4: 1-3. Great Lent has seven Sundays, the original carnival, deportation, impossible, steward, judge, Galstyan. Let's try not to save, don't say, cleanse our thoughts. Let us repent of our sins, repent, visit the church, do good and prepare to meet the holiday of Christ's resurrection. These rules are marked every year, but as important to be honest.
Everything is not formal. According to the priest, the fasting is meaning to strengthen God's presence in our lives. According to the Lord, we must be able to correct our lives. "
Lord Isa notes that this aspiration should be not only in 48 days, but to become our daily struggle. We see the world around us due to lack of light. The darkness prevents us, but if we open the door of our soul in front of light, everything will be clear.
"We are ready to realize that we have left God. Man's life without divine love is meaningless, "says Lord Isaiah. It turns out that fasting is a combination of prayer, mercy and foodkeeping.
We refuse to eat from animal origin, we pray and live with mercy.
"Lent restores a reality surrounding a person's connection. Prayer is our connection to God. Mercy, loving people, being compassionate, helping, saying sweet words, is our relationship with people.
Preservation is our relationship with nature. " In addition to obstacles, it is important to participate in St. Liturgys, worships.
Refusing to feed without sin is useless. "In the Sermon on the Mount, he says:" When you fast, your head and your face will not fast, but your Father Secondely, and your Father, who sees, will reward something. to you "(Matt. 6: 17-18).
The week following the Greater Lent is called the Savior's earthly life, the victorious entrance to Jerusalem, the last supper, suffering, crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection.
Our country needs us, we also need the homeland
Lord Isaiah hopes that this year's last year will be an opportunity to rediscover our relationship with the Homeland, learn to listen to each other, to love and finally. "Our people live in a difficult period today."
People are divided into groups. Are many divisions. Clearly something we should not desperate. We need to keep our feature, identity. The homeland needs us, we also need the homeland. "
The clergyman noticed, we continue to escape from reality, but if we want to change the situation, we must take into account the reality. We must live not in the past or in the future, but at the moment. Let's act, become the owner of our lives.
