Неделя свв. жен мироносиц

(Acts 6:1–7; Mark 15:43–16:8). Tireless wives! Sleep was not given to the eyes and eyelids until they found the Beloved! And the men seem to rest their feet: they go to the coffin, see it empty, and remain at a loss as to what this means, because they have not seen Himself. But does this mean that they had less love than their wives? No, here was reasoning love, afraid of error because of the high price of love and its subject. When they saw and touched, then each of them confessed not with his tongue, like Thomas, but with his heart: “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28), and nothing could separate them from the Lord. The myrrh-bearers and the apostles are an image of two sides of our life: feelings and reasoning. Without feeling, life is not life; without reasoning, life is blind, it wastes a lot, but produces little healthy fruit. We need to combine both. Let the feeling move forward and excite; let reasoning determine the time, place, method, and in general the everyday structure of what the heart hints to do. Inwardly the heart moves forward, but in practice it is reasoning. When the feelings become trained in the reasoning of good and evil, then, perhaps, it will be possible to rely on the heart alone; just as shoots, flowers and fruits come of themselves from a living tree, so from the heart only goodness begins to emerge, intelligently invested throughout our life. You might be interested in: