Неделя двадцатая по Пятидесятнице

(Gal. 1, 11–19; Luke 7, 11–16) The Lord sees a mother crying over the death of her son and has mercy on her; another time he was invited to a marriage and rejoiced in family joy. By this He showed that sharing ordinary everyday joys and sorrows is not contrary to His spirit. This is what true, reverent Christians do, leading their lives with fear. However, they distinguish between orders and orders in everyday life; for many things have entered into them on which God’s favor cannot be based. There are customs caused by passions and invented to satisfy them; others are fed only by vanity. He who has the spirit of Christ in him will be able to distinguish good from bad: he holds on to one and rejects the other. He who does this with the fear of God is not shunned by others, even though he does not act like them, for he always acts in the spirit of love and condescension for the weaknesses of his brothers. Only the transitory spirit of jealousy pricks the eyes and produces discord and division. Such a spirit cannot restrain itself from teaching and rebuking. And he only cares about establishing himself and his family in a Christian way; he does not consider it permissible to interfere in the affairs of others, saying to himself: “Who made me a judge?” With such quietness he endears himself to everyone and inspires respect for the order he adheres to. The pointer of everything makes himself unloved and brings disapproval to the good order that he adheres to. In such cases, humility is needed, Christian humility. It is the source of Christian prudence, knowing how to act well in given cases. You might be interested in: