The Lord is the true treasure of the humble, explains Archbishop Athanasiustranslated

"The Lord is the true treasure of the humble," Archbishop Athanasius of Great Britain and Northern Ireland explained on Sunday.

His Eminence officiated the Holy Liturgy in the "Holy Great Martyr Mina" Parish in Dagenham, England, where he showed the responsibility of each man to love his fellow man, starting from the Parable of the merciless rich man and the poor Lazarus.

"The Lord wants us all rich, in a way that we hardly understand, which is why we are called to the school of humility and charity - because in these virtues lies the wealth that comes to us from above."

Referring to the rich man's attitude, the Most Reverend Father Athanasius explained that the small distance that existed between him and Lazarus turned after death into an impassable chasm.

"The greatest passion, which deprives the rich man in today's gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, is precisely the inability to be merciful, the inability to overcome his own state of comfort and selfishness - which will lead him to condemnation," said the archbishop.

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