Слово о страданиях Спасителя

I’m afraid to speak and touch my tongue on this terrible legend about the Savior, for it is really scary to talk about it. Our Lord is delivered today into the hands of sinners. Why does He, the Holy and Sinless Master, surrender? For having sinned in nothing, he was betrayed today. Come, and we will find out why Christ our Savior was betrayed. The Lord is betrayed for us, the wicked. Who wouldn't marvel? Who won't glorify? The slaves sinned, and the Master was betrayed in order to free his sinful sons by his own death. The sons of perdition and the children of darkness came in the darkness to hold back the Sun, which in an instant could burn everyone. The Lord, seeing their insolence and angry movement, with meekness, voluntarily gave Himself into the hands of the wicked. And the lawless, having bound the Most Pure Lord, mocked Him, who bound the strong one with insoluble bonds and freed us from the bonds of sin. They wove a crown out of their thorns, which the Jewish vineyard brought into fruit. Swearing at Him, they called Him a king, the lawless spit in the face of the Most Pure One, from Whose gaze all the Heavenly Powers and ranks of Angels come to tremble. Now, again, sadness and tears squeeze my heart when I imagine that the Lord endures such insults and reproaches from his slaves, scourging, spitting and strangling. Come and you will know the abundance of generosity, the patience and mercy of the sweetest Lord. He had a good servant in the sweet paradise, and he, having sinned, was handed over to the torturers. But the Good One, seeing that he was weak in spirit, had mercy on the slave, took pity on him and gave himself up to be scourged for him. I would like to remain silent due to excessive confusion of mind, and again I was afraid, lest by my silence I would destroy the Savior’s grace. However, I tell you with fear, for my bones tremble when I imagine that the common Creator of all, our Lord Himself, stands today before Caiaphas as a condemned man, and one of the servants gives him a strangulation. My heart trembles when I think about all this. The slave sits, and the Master stands before him; full of iniquity pronounces judgment on the Sinless One. The heavens shook, the foundations of the world were horrified, all the Angels and Archangels were in amazement; Gabriel and Michael covered their faces with their wings; The Cherubim hid behind the wheels of the Throne, the Seraphim struck their wings with each other at the hour when the servant struck the Lord to death. And how did the foundations of the earth withstand the shaking and trembling at that hour when the Lord was desecrated? I imagine this, and I tremble, and again I come to contrition, looking at the long-suffering of the good Master. For behold, my insides tremble when I say that the Creator, who by mercy created man from dust, was choked with dust. Let us come to fear, brothers, and let us not just listen to all that the Savior endured for us. Tell me, pathetic servant, why did you strangle the Lord? Every slave, when freed from slavery, accepts beating to acquire temporary freedom; but you, pathetic one, unrighteously strangled the Liberator of all! What did you expect to receive from Caiaphas as a reward for this strangulation? Or have you not heard or learned from anyone that Jesus is the Heavenly Lord? You gave strangulation to the Lord of all and became forever and ever a slave of slaves, an object of reproach and disgust, forever condemned to suffer in unquenchable fire. It is a great miracle, brethren, to see the meekness of Christ the King! Having been strangled by the servant, He wisely answered with meekness and all piety. The slave is indignant, the Master is patient; the servant is angry, the Master is filled with goodness. Who, in the hour of anger, can restrain his irritation and confusion? But our Lord accomplished all this with His goodness. Who will be able to portray Your long-suffering, Master! Come, O longed ones, beloved by Christ, who have acquired contrition and the love of the Savior, come to find out what happened today in Zion, the city of David, what the beloved and chosen seed of Abraham did today - they put the Most Pure Lord to death on this day. Christ our Savior was unrighteously crucified on the tree of the cross by the hands of the lawless. Let us all come and with sighs we will bathe our body in tears, because our Lord, the King of glory, was put to death for us, the wicked. If someone suddenly hears about the death of a beloved relative, or just as suddenly sees with the eyes of his beloved lying dead, his face changes and the brightness of his gaze is darkened. So the clear sun, seeing from the heavenly heights the desecration of the Lord on the tree of the cross, changed its face, withheld the rays of its lordship, did not tolerate looking at the desecration of the Lord, and was clothed in sadness and darkness. In the same way, the Holy Spirit, existing in the Father, seeing the Beloved Son on the tree of the cross, tearing the curtain from top to bottom, this decoration of the church, immediately left in the form of a dove. All creatures were in fear and trembling when the Savior, the Heavenly King, suffered. And we, sinners, for whom the One Immortal was betrayed, still remain careless. We laugh every day when we hear about the suffering and desecration of the Savior. We live in luxury every day, putting all our care into decorating our clothes. The sun in the sky, due to the reproach of the Lord, turned its lordship into darkness, so that we, seeing this, would become imitators. The Lord was mocked for you on the Cross, and you, pathetic one, constantly decorate the outfit of your clothes. And your heart does not tremble, your thought is not horrified, hearing this. For you, the wicked, the One Sinless One was given over to death, reproach, and reproach, and you absent-mindedly listen to all this. And the entire verbal flock must look unceasingly at their Shepherd and always love and honor Him, because He, the Impassive and Most Pure, suffered for His flock; and one should not be distinguished by perishable clothes, and also not by a luxurious life, not by worldly dishes, but by deeds and with all honesty to please the Creator. Let us not imitate the Jews: they are a cruel and rebellious people who have always rejected God’s gifts and blessings. The Most High God, for the sake of Abraham and His Covenant with him, from the very beginning tolerated the evil of this people; He gave them manna from heaven for food, and they, unworthy, lusted after stinking foods (garlic). He also gave them water from a stone in the desert; and for this they, having crucified him on the Cross, gave Him otset. Let us make every effort, brothers, so that we do not turn out to be accomplices of the Jews who crucified the Lord, their Creator; Let us come to fear, always having before our eyes the suffering of the Savior; Let us always meditate on His sufferings. For the impassive Master suffered for us, the One Sinless One was crucified for us. How will we reward this, brothers? Let us be attentive to ourselves and not disparage His suffering. Come, all children of the Church, purchased by the Honest and Holy Blood of the Most Pure Lord. Come, let us reflect on suffering with tears and sighs, mentally filled with fear, approaching meditation with trembling, saying to ourselves: “For us, the wicked, Christ our Savior was put to death.” Understand, brother, what you hear means. The sinless God, the Son of the Most High, was given up for you. Open your heart, study exactly His suffering and say to yourself: “The sinless God is today betrayed, today he is ridiculed; scolded today; today it is blown away; today I suffered scourging; today I wore a crown of thorns; Today the Heavenly Lamb is crucified. Let your heart tremble, let your soul be horrified. Shed tears every day at this reflection on the suffering of the Master. These tears delight, the soul is enlightened, constantly reflecting on the sufferings of Christ.” Always thinking in this way, weep daily and thank the Lord for the suffering that He endured for you, so that on the day of His coming your tears will turn to your praise and glorification before the Judgment Seat. You too suffer evil, reflecting on the suffering of the good Lord. Endure temptations with all your heart. Blessed is the man who has before his eyes the Heavenly Lord and His suffering, who has crucified himself to all passions and to everything earthly and has become an imitator of his own Lord. This is prudence, this is the disposition of God-loving slaves, if they always imitate the Master in good deeds. You see, man, the Most Pure Lord hanging on the cross, and you dare, shameless, to spend all the time you live on earth in pleasure and laughter! Or don’t you know, you pathetic one, that the crucified Lord will demand an answer for all these negligences of yours, which you, hearing about, are negligent and laugh in luxury, and spend your time in various amusements? That terrible day will come when you will not stop crying and crying out in the fire from the torment you endure, and no one will give you an answer, no one will take pity on your soul. I bow to (honor) You, Master, I bless You, O Good One, I beg You, Holy One, I fall before You, O Lover of Mankind, and I glorify You, Christ, because You, the Only Begotten, the Lord of all, the One Sinless One, for me, an unworthy sinner, was put to death - and the death of the cross, in order to free the soul of a sinner from sins. knot And how will I repay You for this, Master? Glory to You, Lover of Humanity! Glory to Thee, Merciful One! Glory to Thee, Long-suffering One! Glory to You, who forgives all sins! Glory to Thee, who condescended to save our souls! Glory to You, incarnate in the womb of the Virgin! Glory to you, who bore the bonds! Glory to Thee, who accepted scourging! Glory to Thee, devoted to ridicule! Glory to Thee, O Crucified One! Glory to Thee, buried one! Glory to You, risen one! Glory to Thee, O preached one! Glory to Thee, in whom we have believed! Glory to Thee, who ascended into heaven! Glory to You, who is seated with great glory at the right hand of the Father, and who again comes with the glory of the Father and with the Holy Angels to judge every soul that has humiliated Your holy sufferings! In that trembling and terrible hour, when the Heavenly Powers move, when the Angels, Archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim come together before Your glory with fear and trembling, when the foundations of the earth shake and every breath is horrified by Your incomparably great glory - in that hour may Your hand cover me under Your wings, and may my soul be delivered from the terrible fire and gnashing of teeth, and pitch darkness, and eternal weeping, so that I, when blessing, could say: “Glory to Him who wanted to save the sinner according to the great bounty of His mercy!” You might be interested in: