and we thank God for the ability to be
able to stream into everybody's home
that in my literature because most of
the time we are receiving two homes
things that are not that good for us
Hollywood has been flooding us with all
kinds of things that are filled with
sexual innuendos or sexual pictures
immoral ways of living violence all
kinds of things and now we have the
divine liturgy coming into our homes
what a blessing
what a pleasure at the same time of
course we were being prevented from
cavity Church will be prevented from
receiving Holy Communion and I'm
thinking about this I've been thinking
about this I'm wondering what is God
allowing such a thing doesn't he want us
to receive Holy Communion
doesn't he want us to be in church well
the coronavirus has become something
like what said Mary of Egypt experienced
in her own life she went to church but
she was unworthy she was unwilling to be
in the presence of God and God did not
allow her 20 he put something like a
forcefield at the door of the church
forbidding her from entering and I'm
looking at the story and I'm saying
what cahuita maybe that he's putting
this force field or coronavirus in our
way so that we may not be able to enter
the church as a whole the entire world
not just one country not just one
particular parish but the whole world
what is it that we have done wrong or
what is it that we haven't done good and
we need to each one of us considering
why it is for me why it is that I cannot
do this why it is that another love to
do this why is this force field put in
front of me
Cavalia don't look at the others don't
consider what the others have done each
one has to consider what each one of us
has done this is a time we have plenty
of time businesses are closed people
stay home who can't even get out of the
hose we're not allowed to come out of
the corners with a new requirements and
in some places there are people there
police monitoring the streets in giving
penalties and punishing people for
coming out of their homes what is it
that we have done that this Forest View
has been put in a way preventing us from
entering the church preventing us from
receiving Holy Communion well this is
Greenland and Greenland is a time for us
to consider exactly that question so
this great land is
I think the best that I have seen in my
lifetime because it has really become
for us a real meant a real time to
consider our situation our condition as
human beings as Christians in our
relationships with other people if they
were would treat others in the way we
behave toward others in the way we
behave to work material things in the
way we begin to behave toward he brought
hedonism towards enjoyments what we
think enjoyments which we deserve and we
need to reconsider what we do in our
lives
well that's what happened with Mary of
Egypt she stood in front of the door she
tried three times to enter the Holy
Sepulchre
building the other pilgrims were
entering and she would go in she had
come from a life of debauchery
she loved sex and she ran around and she
did as much as she could to enjoy what
she thought was good
she loved men and God stopped her and
said look the flesh is not the only
thing to consider in your life we also
have a soul you need to consider your
soul and make sure that is safe forever
your flesh is going to die eventually
it's going to be buried as well
dissolving the earth but your soul
should I remain immortal in
what you need to consider and Mary of
Egypt stood in front of the gate
entering the Holy Sepulchre and she
cried she knelt down and beseech God to
forgive her for whatever she was doing
and then the force field was removed she
was able 20 after that she realized that
his saw was the most important aspect of
her being because the body will dissolve
it would disappear but the saw very many
and she left wearing to the desert she
posed on herself absence from church and
absence of communion because she
realized that what she needed to do was
to correct her soul through prayer so
this is the time for us to do the same
thing
it took her to 45 years in business
we're not gonna have to wait that long I
hope I hope that in a few months or even
less who may be able to come back to
church and Holy Communion would be ready
for us but we would have gone through
this process of purification and of
reconsideration of our lives just like
she did in the desert 45 years and then
be able to approach Holy Communion with
a new understanding with a new
perspective with a new desire for it
because you know what when we take
things for granted then we just come to
church and we think that
we deserve full community from we just
woke up and we take and even if we were
partying the previous night or we were
never pranked even five minutes we work
with the church at the end of the
service and we run up to Lucifer
communion we walk into the church
without considering what this place is
about now it's time this is the time to
read value to put new value to what it
is to be Church to what it is to receive
Holy Communion so this is what matters
yes the carnival's is not for us
especially if we get sick and especially
if somebody dies
that is gross person it can be very bad
but this can also be very good if we
understand this feather being forced the
way we are to reconsider our lives to
think about what is happening to us
there is so the liturgy is extremely
through homes blessings and
players enter homes like never before I
mean there are so many people that never
invited even a priest to come and bless
their bow okay or they can't have a
priest come and bless them for whatever
reason and now the divine liturgy has
been streamed into our homes the prayers
of ourselves
come to us in a way which is amazing
somebody wrote to me I give a lot of
emails from parishioners and people from
around the world thanking us for this
the live stream and yesterday I got an
email from somebody pray she never said
to me this is an icon this is like an
icon I would say this is a living icon
of the kingdom of God the kingdom of God
is streamed into our homes as a living
icon to take us closer to him to take us
closer to God to transform us this time
is a blessed one in so many different
ways and we need to thank God for it as
well
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