Слово 10. К тем, которые живут во грехах неисправимо, но ежедневно исполняют каноны и молитвы, установленные святыми отцами, и этим надеются спастись

The Holy and Reverend Fathers composed many different prayers, and they all have one content and one goal: with them we confess to the Lord of all the sins we have committed before and ask for forgiveness for ourselves, and so that we can leave them behind, and for the future be strengthened by the fear of the Lord, and live pleasingly before Him, according to His holy commandments, and those who have reached perfection, and have come to the measure of the age of Christ, as the Apostle says: We will reach Dondezh all in the union of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, in a perfect husband, to the measure of the age of the fulfillment of Christ (Eph. 4:13), - they ask to receive the strength and enlightenment of the Divine mind. Let it be known to us, the pious, that while we remain in sin, that is, in the transgression of the divine commandments of Christ God, then, even if we read all the prayers of the saints, and troparia, and kontakion, and prayer canons daily and at all hours, we have achieved nothing. For the Lord Christ Himself, as if reproaching and reproaching us, says to us: Why do you call Me: Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? ( OK. 6:46), that is: as long as you live in transgression of My commandments, so long you call upon Me with many and lengthy prayers in vain. There is only one prayer that is favorable and pleasing to Him, this is an active prayer, which consists in abandoning with all one’s soul forever any violation of His holy commandments and then being affirmed in the fear of Him, doing all righteousness, with spiritual joy and unfeigned love. You might be interested in: