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IN On the 24th week of Pentecost, the Holy Church invites us an excerpt from the Gospel, in which the miracle of the healing of the Gadarinsky is a bad, from which the Lord our Jesus Christ expelled the legions of the demons.

Saint Luka (war-injaceous) delivered a sermon in which he made an explanation to the great miracle, created by Christ.

archbishop Luka (Waro-Yasenetsky)

Plord Jesus Christ with his students with their students on the sea Tiberiad, sailed to the eastern shore of this lake.

On the way, he created the great miracle of the taming of the storm with one command: commanded the wind and the waves calm down - and subsided.

We went ashore in the country of Gadarinskaya, and see what happened there.

"And when he came out of the boat, he immediately met him who came out of the coffins, obsessed with an unclean spirit, he had a dwelling in coffins, and no one could tie him even with chains ... He broke the chains and broke the shackles, and no one was able to tame him ; Always, at night and day, in the mountains and coffins, he shouted and beat the stones; Seeing Jesus from afar, came running and bowed to him ... "(MK. 5, 1-6).

From coffins ... what? Of course, not from those female, in which we are Honim our dead. The ancient Jews buried the body of the departed in the rocks, in the caves carved in the Rocky Mountains.

And in these coffins the unfortunate man was obsessed with a whole legion of demons.

What is Legion? Legion is an integral part of the Roman troops - about 6,000 people.

And the whole legion of demons devoted to the soul of this unfortunate man.

As will ask, maybe unbelievers, as unclean spirits can enter the soul and man's heart; How can Legion demons fit in one person?

May, they can enter, can fit in countless quantity, because these are impregnated perfume, not occupying places, they can fit in the slightest space in a huge amount.

So this unfortunate man was obsessed with a whole legion of demons. He was so scary, was so stronger that people were afraid to pass by the place where he lived in coffins. Tried to tamme it, they were dragging with iron chains, but with an unintended force he ruptured iron shackles for us. He lived naked, clothes were not dressed; Nagim, he ran away to the Lord Jesus. This miserable days and night shouted frantically, beat about the stones and was a gentle demons in the desert. And then when he saw Jesus, he, like a meek lamb, ran up and bowed to him to the ground.

Did he really bow to anyone? He pounced on everyone, and everyone ran away from him in fear, and then came running to Jesus and bowed, "" And screaming a holo-som, said: What do you have to me, Jesus, the Son of God of the Most High? I breed you, do not flip me! " (MK. 5, 7).

Who spoke it? Could he, being a man, say such words? Could he name Jesus, who saw the son of the Sale of the Most High for the first time? Could you ask for: not a mellow me? Didn't he want to free himself from his torment?

Who told him his tongue? And who prompted him to bow to Jesus? It was said to the demons united to him, they asked Christ: "Do not flip, not fluttering until time!"

They knew that the time of eternal torment would come for them, and now they asked: Leave, leave! Do not flip us, do not flutter until time!

The Lord Jesus Christ, of course, knew who said it: he knew that it was told that demons. And he commanded them to get out of this unfortunate man. That's why demons and asked him: not a flock, no flies of us before!

What was their torment? The torment for them was to leave alone the soul of this unfortunate man, the torment for them, - when they cannot do evil, and evil for them, that the air is for us. Torment for them happens when they can not torment a person, and they are tormented by all of us; Remember - all of us.

Unbelievers laugh at our faith in demons. But how do we not believe when, the Lord my Jesus Christ himself said about demons, when he expelled them with his command, when he healed the rampant - not this one, and many others.

And what prevents us from believeing? After all, our soul was created by such spirits, and therefore it can have direct communication with them, because herself is like their spirituality.

You know, on your own experience, which often perceive our hearts with your heart, the soul of your thoughts and the desire of people who love who live with us with one soul.

So this way we can perceive the suggestion of angels and demons.

Why reject the possibility that the perfume spirits can put into our souls?

Very, very moral! They will not be missed, for we often foggle, often we are obsessed with the grave spiritual bad, and this is obsession.

I think there is nothing to convince you in the existence of demons and the possibility of their attack on you.

Demons, knowing that Christ will drive them from this unfortunate man, asked not to torment them, they asked to allow them to come out of the idhotom to enter the herd of a pork, immediately on the shore. The Lord allowed. And there were demons in the flock of pork. And the flock it was huge - about two thousand goals. And the pigs were whisked, and rushed to the shore, and everyone jumped into the lake deep, and everyone drowned.

Why did the Lord Jesus Christ allowed the demon to enter pigs? I don't like some bold thoughts, and they condemn: why, why did the poor animals died?

I will not answer in my words, I will give the answer to the great St. John of Zlatoust.

It was necessary, first, in order to show the omnipotence of God, because it was one of the great wonders of Christ.

He was aimed at his show to people - and the audience was quite a lot, - as great, as the immense evil Beshovskaya, show in reality that the demons cannot do not create evil.

The third reason was to show that demons without the permission of God, without the boss of God, do not dare to do the evil to people.

Only when God himself finds it necessary to take advantage of them, as the executioners, when you need to punish, to punish someone hopeless for truth, for good, they can create their own debris.

So he shouted the Egyptian pharaoh, the entire people of Egyptian, for the fact that Pharaoh showed disobedience to the requirements of Moses, for this is what the Prophet David says about this: "He ... he sent his wrath of his wrath, and indignation, and rage and disaster, the embassy of evil angels ... "(Ps. 77, 49).

He sent himself, it was his embassy: he enjoyed evil angels here, as executions.

We read in another place of the Holy Scripture about the same: the King Israeli Ahab was stubborn in sins. It was necessary to punish him as the Egyptians. It was necessary to show him for his stubbornness, for his recreativity.

"... And the Lord told the Lord with the name of Heaven who had standing with him: who would be shone Ahab to go and fell in Ramof Galaadic? And one spoke, the other said otherwise; And one spirit performed, I began to face the Lord and said: I am a linked him. And the Lord told him: what? He said: I will go out and I will give the Spirit lying in the mouth of all the prophets of him, - it was the spirit of demonsky, because the Agel of Light could not become false. - The Lord said: You will bow it and fulfill it; Go and do so "(3 kings. 22, 20-22).

You see, again, this is the embassy of the Spirit of the Spirit to engage in the destruction of the complete sins of Ahab.

In order to teach us and show that the perfume spirits can relieve evil, since the Lord allows it, Jesus and allowed the demon to enter the pork herd.

He showed them anger, showed the dependence of their actions from God's permission.

Do not think that demons have equal strength over all of us. They have a huge, immeasurable power over people who, in spirit, are like their own pigs. These demons are so easy as the flock of pork has been torn in the Gadarinsky country.

But they do not dare to come to the saints: they are afraid of saints, they are afraid of the Cross of Christ, they are afraid of prayer spells.

Was in the III century the priest of Vavilov, Bishop Antioch. After many years after his martyr's death, the emperor Konstania holy relics were moved to a small temple, specially built near the temple of the pagan God of Apollo, in which the idol of his demonic power was performed by the future through his priests. And what? Near the holy relics, Bavlya Demons did not dare to dwell, and the broadcasting of the idol stopped.

So afraid of the demons of the saints, so they will be afraid of you if you are holy and immaculate before God, if the cross and constant prayer will be fencing themselves from the power of them.

This is what this event teaches us in the country of Gadarinskaya.

"The grazing pigs ran down and told in the city and the villages. And the inhabitants went out to see what happened. Come to Jesus and see that the launched, in which Legion was, sits and dressed, and in the right mind; And frightened. Saying told them about how it happened with a standpoint, and about pigs. And they began to ask him to move away from their limits "(MK. 5, 14-17).

It seems strange why they asked him: Get out, go away!

Why not asked opposite: pass, pass to consecrate them with your coming?

Do not think that they did because there were wicked, because they were saddened by the death of pigs.

Not so, not so! They did not deserve this condemnation, because Luka, story talk about it, says: "... because they were embraced by great fear" (Luke 8.37).

They were shocked, trembled from fear, seeing an extraordinary miracle, trembled before the demons expelled.

Their thrill was so great that they could not postpone the presence of Jesus, and asked him: Retain, leave! We are unworthy, we cannot transfer your presence.

And we will not ask so much, we will ask: Do not leave us, do not leave us. Do not go, Lord, Lord!

11/15/2015Healing of the Gadarinsky isnented.

In the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spiritbut

Dear brethren and sisters. At today's Sunday day, our preferential attention is paid to the instruction, which comes from the Gospel reading, which tells about the miracle of the healing of the Gadarinsky Pointed. In general, three evangelists are talking about this miracle: Matthew, Mark and Luka. The difference in the description of this miracle consists only that Matthew speaks about two Gadarin's undersensants, and Mark and Luka speak of one. Critics of Holy Scripture paid attention to this contradiction, in which they saw the basis for the interim in the authenticity, the reliability of the text of the evangelists. But it is explained by this contradiction very, very simple. It was the underestimated two, only one so much, in a pronounced form suffered from this launcher that the second on his background was just a meek lamb, with whom it was absolutely easy to cope, and he did not imagine such a threat to the people around.

Thus, the evangelist of Luka, whose narration was read today, tells about one of this Gadarinsky launcher. The Lord, sailing in the boat on the Galilee Lake, arrived in the country of Gadarinskaya, where there were ten cities in which pagans were mostly lived: Gadara, Geresa and other cities. And as soon as he stepped ashore, this idle person went to meet him. This sick person was a terrible spectacle: he could not wear any clothes, his blacksmith chains were thrown, and he ruled them as rotten threads; All overgrown, terrible. The demon, which in many lived in him, tormented him scary, so that he fought about the stones, all was wounded. He lived in coffins, or in the caves in which the Jews were buried their departed, away from human society, because there was just dangerous to him next to him.

This man approached Christ and cried in an incredible, terrible voice: "What do you have to me, Jesus, the son of God of the Most High? I beg you, do not flip me "(LK.8; 28). And another evangelist says: "What do you have to us, Jesus, the Son of God? Have you come here before you torment us? " (MF.8; 29).

What is this mention: "First of all"? This is a mention that after a terrible court, about which demons know, will be the final division on the righteous and sinners. And hell finally and irrevocably concludes all the demonic kingdoms and all the people who were like them, they worked their will in life. But so far there is no, the world continues his being for the grace of God, evil spirits have relative freedom and may not be concluded in the hellish abyss. Therefore, this is a question, this cry of a rapid man speaks a lot about many things. He suggests that the demons themselves are afraid of hellish fire, they do not want to go there. "Why did you first come? There is still no your terrible second coming, still life continues. " And they do not want to go there.

We can make a fairly reliable, convincing assumption, as scary there, in these hellish depths, in hellish fire, that even demons do not want to be there, even for them these torments are terrible and monstrous. Therefore, paying attention to this exclamation of evil spirits, taking care, not to get there, in hellish torments.

Continuing the conversation, the Lord asks a question to this person: "How do you need a name?" (LK.8; 30). And this person, whether I forgot my name, was so immersed in this serious suffering, in my illness, whether the demons were ahead of him and, using the consciousness and voice ligaments of man, answered: "Legion," - because many demons entered into Him "(LK.8; 30).

What is Legion? This is a numeral, the main organizational unit in the army of the Roman Empire. The Legion in the Roman army consisted of six thousand people - a huge army, equipped with the latter, so to speak, the word of the Warriors, fearless Roman legionnaments. And in this unfortunate, about six thousand evil spirits lived. And therefore, their power was incredible. No iron chains were impossible to sow - he ruptured them as thin rotten rings.

Dear brethren and sisters. Seraphim Sarovsky on the question about the power of demons spoke to the simple people, that the very rapid, the slightest of them, from this demonic kingdom, can one destroy the whole world, and without the slightest effort, one curious one can destroy and turn the whole world.

If one of the same insignificant lawlessness has such a tremendous force that can destroy the world, then what force did these six thousand demons possessed, the great many who had this unfortunate man?

Of course, dear brethren and sisters, there are special reasons for the launion, and there are different forms of this shortness. To varying degrees, we are all the standnight, because everyone is under the influence of evil forces. They everywhere around us, like air, surround and affect our life, wound their terrible thoughts in our consciousness, disguising under the natural mental abilities of the person himself. If these thoughts are connected to sin if they are terrible, vague, unclean, blasphemes, then this demons are the authors of these thoughts that they vague in our consciousness as a bait so that we are swapped and agreed with this thought. And then it becomes already a sinful magnitude, the thoughts already, which is imputed to a person in sin. We have not paid the slightest attention to these nice thoughts. We bring to confession, at best, only some sins, misdeed, actions, but about thoughts and do not think. And the holy fathers say that from the moment when at least for a short instant you entered a conversation with this thought, she is already becoming yours. For a second, you already detain her in your mind, entered the dialogue with this thought, and the demons rejoice and triumph, already a man sinned in his thoughts. And this sin is visited only by him and God, but absolutely he has not yet done in any way, and people are unknown in this life. Any terrible sins that further develop in crime, also begin with sinful thoughts.

The idleness is different. There are terrible forms of this shortcut, when demons on the special militimization of God are arranged in the person himself, that is, not from the outside only tempting it, but they will put it in his body and can stay anywhere, anywhere, in any body of our body. Usually staying in those places of our body, which can be particularly related to the commission of sin.

This is a lack of confusion, it is not a miserable stay of demons in a person occurs differently. Sometimes a person for many years himself does not realize that he is subject to such a terrible spiritual illness. It happens to an unexpected terrible discovery for a person when he arrives at a monastery and when contacting any shrine, with relics, during the communion of the Holy Taine, something terrible to him opens: either he cannot touch the shrine or starts Screaming terrible, inhuman voice, or some terrible force is gained, which takes away a person from shrine, or the convulsions that are disguised as an epilepsy. Etc...

Many of you have seen these signs of open shortcut. We attended many monasteries: Pochayevskaya and Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Pskovo-Pechersk Monastery in previous years, when adrian father was reported there; In the Trinity-Sergiye Lavra, Father Hermann Many dozen years carrying this responsible obedience. If you had to be on these readings, then the spectacle is terrible. A person does not understand, whether the zoo got into the zoo, whether there is a frost on the skin. And the demons are interesting to behave. Sometimes they begin to expose the sins nearby. And you find yourself on a terrible court: you think, such a white and fluffy, so pretty, fit into the framework of the morality of the XXI-th century. And the demons say about all the mystery, yes on all the people that you worked - you changed there, you wander, you stole, you wanted to do it, yes, time and hour Lord did not give it so on ...

It was especially interesting, it was that the demonstrations of the people nearby at the lifetime of Father Valentina Mordasov, when he served even to the stone in the old Izborsk. The poor grandmothers were even afraid of collective farm, because, as they come, and the demons all their lives open: like with collective farm fields, they lived and so on. Sings, for example, Granny on the closet of the Kheruvim Song, and after such chips at least stand, even fall, at least run away from shame. And there are facts with names, yes over the years, yes with the names, and with all the existing persons. God forbid.

But better, expensive brethren and sisters, so that our sins of our sins are told, if only the Lord pardoned the Lord.

This is the establishment of demons in a person, once again I would like to note, most often it is the punishment of God for sins: sins are long, passion, in which a person is crushed for many years. Holy Fathers indicate that demons especially love the prodigal sins and harlides. When a person creates these sins, there is every reason that demons have absolutely free access and in the soul, and the heart, and into the body of this person. Therefore, it is very scary and dangerously intentionally and consciously sin and remain in these unrelated sins.

And this confession of the Deity of Christ is very interesting. It was necessary for instruction in the faith of the Apostles. Once, when the Lord stayed to pray on the shore, the apostles overlook the Galilee Lake in the boat at night and fell into a terrible storm. The boat beat the waves, the wind was nasty, and the apostles were frightened. And the Lord went, wanting to save them, on the waters, at night, on the raging Lake Galilean. And then it was Petr who cried: "Lord! If this you, led me to come to you on the water "(MF.14; 28). And the Lord said: "Go". And when Petra's gaze was fixed on Christ, he walked along the water, as luck. And then, pulling out his gaze from the Lord, the source of life, he began to sink and heard the reproach of Christ: "Before! Why did you doubt? " (MF.14; 31).

When the apostles could not recognize God in Christ, the demons confessed, the demons suggested the apostles that the Son of God came, and the demons know God in Christ, and his strength and power tremble. Therefore, they asked him: "If you defeat us, then we went to the flock of pigs" (MF.8; 30). This is a herd, goals about two thousand, embraced nearby. Not every modern pig farm in our limits can boast such a great multiple pigs. And the Lord allowed them: "Go." And all this pork herds began to bloom instantly, rushed from the steepness into the lake, and all the pigs could have stopped. The demons were more than six thousand, and the pigs just two thousand. So maybe the "poor" evil spirits were drunk? For them, the great happiness to arrive in someone, in some body; If in a person it is impossible, so at least in the cattle, so that at least someone to torment. This is their realization of evil.

This destruction of pigs, the Lord made intentionally. For what? To show which destructive, terrible effects they have, what evil spirits are striving: to destroy, destroy. So that we are with you, remembering this miracle, horrified and afraid to compromise, on the union, for contact with the devil. And when do we go with you to this contact? We are intentionally when we commit certain sins; When we conduct your children to grandmothers: I will talk herriation, then to sleep well, then in some kind of diseases; The way the husband went away, but I want to return - it was still a rich; That thoughted someone, or wife, or husband; then the money is missing, for good luck, for money and so on ...

The person goes and thinks that these are things insignificant, indifferent - paid, and everything will take place. And demons through this get the opportunity, get the right to own the soul of this person. And very scary there are consequences. Never be able to create no good, there is no disease to heal - they are nothing capable and never will do it. Because they have the others tasks: physically, morally destroy and to aderate, and that people died in these hellish depths.

Therefore, expensive brethren and sisters, we will be very careful and tremble to a possible collision with these evil spirits in our own milk, because it never passes it without a trace. And then you need to pour out again, so that the Lord, the Divine Grace can concern this soul, who betrayed God.

Sins of appeal to grandmas may have terrible consequences. Characteristic of them is the absolute braveless person. For example, a baby took a stagnation to the grandmother, or something else. And then you look - after forty or fifty years, a drinker grow or addict. Ask: "And what, in childhood to the grandmother drove"? - "Yes". The paralysis of the will of the Human will occur when a person can confront anything. This is one of the characteristic consequences of the sale of the soul to the Devil. Despite the fact that sin is Mamochkin or Babushkin, that she leads the child, and the impact is on the child himself or on any person who comes to the goodwill.

We will even be afraid of these thoughts like GEEN fire.

Dear brethren and sisters. This is the Gospel of the Healing of the Gadarinsky Pointed today for our edification is offered by the Church so that we are afraid of evil spirits to live with the Lord. And who and God with God is nothing scary in this world. Demons act over those who want it himself, and above those who live with the Lord and who calls for his all-breeding help, they can not do anything. Even to enter pigs, they asked the permission to the Lord. They themselves cannot do anything without God's assumption.

Therefore, we will root your life in God, faith to strengthen that we cannot be subject to this terrible, demonic influence, from which the Lord will save all of us.

Amen.

After the death of Metropolitan Anthony Surozhsky among his things, a cassette was discovered with conversations on selected fragments of the Gospel of Mark. We present to your attention one of these conversations dedicated to the healing of the Gadarinsky's renounced. The text is published with the kind permission of Nikeya's publishing house, which has released the book of Vladyka Anthony "Awakening to a new life. Conversations on the Gospel of Mark "with these unanswered conversations earlier.

Jointing the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, I want to read the first seventeen poems to you, and then we will focus on their meaning.

And came to the other side of the sea, in. And when he came out of the boat, he immediately met him who came out of the coffins obsessed with an unclean spirit, he had a dwelling in coffins, and no one could tie him even with chains; Because it was repeatedly shoven by chains and chains, but broke the chains and broke the shackles; And no one could tighten it. Always at night and in the afternoon in the mountains and coffins he shouted and beat the stones. Seeing Jesus from afar, came running and bowed to him. And, screaming with a loud voice, said: What do you have to me, Jesus, the Son of God of the Most High? I spell you by God: Do not flip me. For Jesus told him: Go out, the spirit is unclean, from this man. And asked him: how do you know? And he said in response: Legion name me, because we are a lot. And they asked him a lot so as not to send them to the country of that. She grazed there with a large flock of pigs. And they asked him all the demons, saying: they went to the pigs to enter them. Jesus immediately allowed them. And unclean spirits, released, entered pigs; and rushed herd from the steepness into the sea, and there were about two thousand them; And they stood in the sea. The grazing pigs ran down and told in the city and in the villages. And the inhabitants went out to see what happened. Come to Jesus and see that the rampant, in which Legion was, sits and dressed in the right mind; And frightened. Saying told them about how it happened with a standpoint, and about pigs. And they began to ask him to move away from their limits (MK. 5: 1-17).

This story is multifaceted, it can be approached with many of the parties. I want to stay on different sides and earlier than just turn your attention to one circumstance associated with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Savior Jesus Christ is God who became a man. He is the Word of God, created the Universe, he manages the world wisdom with his. And suddenly, here, as in a number of other cases, he seemed to forget about everything, because in front of him one specific need, one specific sufferer: this is enough for him to donate all his divine and human attention to him. This is a wonderful feature in Christ, this is a wonderful feature in God. We often think that there are things great and st aboutenough, and there are small and little art aboutattention. Not so with God. There is no such suffering, there is no such pain, there is no such need, there is no such joy that God could have joined in full, with all his creature and make a new item sometimes in a hopeless position, open a door that would make this position unsubstantiated.

Here, here Christ, the God of the Universe, as if forgetting everything in the world, all his attention draws on this man, because this man suffers because his Need help because is he In grief. We should think about it, because we do not do this with people who are in need. When the need covers hundreds, thousands of people, we suddenly wake up and begin to act, but when we have one-only sufferers, and around everyday worries, our own needs, all that makes our personal and social life, we pass by. Well, yes, he suffers, but this is a small, private thing, can it be compared with the World Status, with the events of the Universe? And we forget that every person is infinitely precious that the second such person does not exist and will never exist that he is the only one in the whole universe and in all a century. And we need to pay attention to it at any time, entirely, even when circumstances are called on, life to another, to what seems to us wider, deeper.

I was once a doctor and survived it very much when, being a military surgeon, I saw how it turns out, the war develops terribly, and at the same time the only caring should be the person who lies with the operating table in front of me. There is nothing else in the world, if you even fake a hospital or a sanitary point where we are, I have no business before. Only one person exists: this There is no other person.

And it seems to me that here Christ gives us an example, because if we were like this, with such attention, with such an inquiring to all people around us, then life would be completely different. We would not donate all sake of some kind of business, we would not donate and deed, because with the right approach to the case, we would have revealed the possibilities that there would be no other way.

I remember one priest now. He came to me and said that his wife asked him to talk to me. Their lives became joyless, since his priestly expanded, he is engaged only by other people, and his wife, his children barely sees. And as a result, the wife is unhappy, and children - without a father. I then told him: "You know what to do is to reduce your pastoral activities." - "How can I, because it is my duty before God and people?!" "No, the first your favorite is a wife and children." - "But I will answer for all those who leave ignoring during this time. I can go to hell for it! " I then told him: "You know, if you do it on obedience, I'll go to hell, and not you." He spawned and says: "Oh, then everything is fine!" (I didn't feel quite so, but I was glad that he said so.) "And what should I do?" "Half the time you dedicated to your Pasom, give to his wife and children, take care of them completely, and see what will happen."

A few months passed, and the wife came to me and says: "You know, I just don't understand that we have happened: my husband left half of his pastoral work, he gives us all this time. And pastoral work completely transformed. Instead of running around the houses, the indiscretion of the parishioners comes to us and say: "We came to your house, because we want to see that God can take over the family if the family is fully predicted. Your family life is light in our arrival. We do not need the Father V. to visit us constantly, we are pretty come and see what about God makes in your environment and, causing it, calmly go home and live in the same way. "

Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it an example, isn't it a parable in action and in reality?

Once I talked about Christ itself, now I want to stay on the launcher. - This is a person who is obsessed, who over himself has no power, is like a seamless and toy other forces. These other forces - I am deeply convinced of this, so teaches us and the Holy Scriptures, and the life and teachings of the Holy Fathers of the Church - can be really demonic, but they do not always act in such a size and with such brightness with which they are described here. It may be "hellishness" in our Russian sense of the word. A person can be obsessed with a drink to drink, be drunkard, suffer from a drink, a person can be a volupture. It may be a person who is unable to stay from anger, it may be a person who will unstoppable to theft, it may be a person who flashes hatred, envy, jealousy, if there is little. Peer, as if in a mirror, in my own soul, and you will see how much passions in it may be small, maybe not such tragic, as an explicit shortness of such passions in each of us who do not give us freedom to be Fully worthy of themselves. Remember the words of Nekrasov: "Although the malice in me is great and Dick, and it will reach the matter - the hand freezes." Replace the word "malice", the word "inspiration", "desire" and you will see: how many times it happened that - oh yeah, as it were! .. Oh yes, I am with such a willingness! .. And when it comes to doing - neither from place. Therefore, we must soberly relate not only to the dramatic standards that we find in the Holy Scriptures and in our lives, among people around us (although less often it seems to be), and think about the small demons that make us as small and alien The truth of God and the truth of human, as well as this is the launched.

But wonderful in this person is that he is not only incidents. As soon as the launched it turns out to be in the face of Christ, even when he sees him, he sees peace in Christ, he sees harmony in it, he sees the wholeness of a true man in it, and at the same time in this wholeness, God twisted in it. And he falls to the legs of Christ and worships him, because even for demons God is the one who owns everyone who is the owner of the universe, visible and invisible world.

But these demons remain demons. Obsessed falls to the legs of Christ, but unclean, unclean forces, unclean attractions shout in it Christ: "Why did you come? Leave us, go away! " And the Savior asks: "What are you called?" - "We are the name of Legion", that is, the whole is expensive in this person, as in the nest. And what is sitting in us? How many small detects, how many small demons we own: envy, and jealousy, and creature, and cowardice, and false, and greed, and sober, and hatred, and malice, and refusal to forgive someone else's offense, etc., etc. . In us, too, can be said, Legion is sitting.

And Christ commands them to leave, but for these demons to go - it means to return to the abyss. They want to somehow stay in the visible world, so as not to go to the darkness of the pitch, prepared by the devil and servants of him, and ask Christ: "Let us in this flock of pigs." The question is often asked: why did they like these? The fact is that among the Jews, as well as among Muslims, the pig is a symbol of impurity, and from all the animals that were around were, demons saw a creature that all proclaims who they are. They left - where? In the area of \u200b\u200britual sewage.

Further figuratively shown about It happens when this unclean is getting power: the whole herd runs and throws into the sea, dies. From this, it is clearly seen that it happens if evil, even razens, even small abominations, is given complete freedom: she will lead to death, to destruction, to death.

So what is next? Then there is something very scary. Shepherds run away to lift all the people in the villages, in the city, tell what about It happened, and people hurry to see what was doing there, look at the idle - and see that he is now in his right mind, dressed. And where are the pigs? Skill. And then there is a terrible thing: that this person is healed - they don't care, and that their pigs were killed, this is yes, horror. The second such income they do not want to see. They turn to Christ and say: "Get out of our limits. Salvation of one person is such a price, such a blow to our pocket - no, we disagree on it. " We read such a story with horror, we think: how is it possible? But in fact, are we ready in each individual case to sacrifice your well-being, our kind for one person to recover, went into life, woke up? Not always. And therefore we will not rouck these, and think about yourself. How will I answer? If suddenly all my property, all that I was hoping to get rich and live safely, I would be taken away with the forel to just so that one person became normal, healthy, began a new life, - What would I say to it? We think about it, because we are not all better than these people.

So what is next? Christ leaves, and the former idle wants to follow him: "I'll go with you." He does not want to lunch with that man who gave him a new life. And Christ says to him: "No, go to your own, tell them what happened." "His" is the same inhabitants, Gadarinski, they may also lose pigs too. How will they accept it? .. In addition, we all know that it is not so difficult to testify to others, because they do not know us, but to testify something great that it happened in person with us, in front of their loved ones. The answer is very often: "Well, tell! With you? So such a miracle happened? This does not happen to people like you! " And this is what Christ sends this random and each of us who the power of Christ, by the power of faith in Christ, will reincarnate from all his lack of infantlessness, will begin a new life with healthy, healed, i.e. they become whole, that's what the Lord calls us: "Go To her, let them look, what a miracle can make God even over one of their own family. "

Healing of the Gadarinsky Pointed (Lux. 8: 26-39).

Episode with Healing of the Gadarin's Baby, described by the apostle and evangelist (8:26-39) It is customary to be similar to the developers of the evangelists Mark (5: 1-20) And Matfey. (8: 28-34). The only difficulty here seems to be discrepancies in the title of the area, where the Lord Jesus Christ arrived: at Luke and Mark "To the country of Gadarinskaya" (LC. 8: 26; MK. 5: 1) , Matthew "To the country of Gergenese" (8:28), and in the quantity, as Matthew mentions two, while Mark and Luka - about one.

In the first case, it is assumed that the Gadares and Gerges (by the name of which the same names are named) there are two close-friendly citys within tens 1. Or, according to another version, there was a certain Gadarin region, in which the city of Gerges was located (See the intelligent Bible ed. Lopukhina A. P.). In the Greek texts, these areas are named exactly the opposite, i.e. in Greek. on lk. And MK. We read "Country of Gergeneskaya", at MF. - "Gadarinskaya". One way or another, apparently, these were related to each other area or cities in which the indicated event occurred.

Regarding the coordination of the number of underestimated, then all interpreters are unanimously converge in the opinion that they could really be more, but one of them was so terrible and the fierce that Mark and Luka found it necessary to mention only him.

And so, the Lord went to this area and "I met his one person from the city, obsessed with demons from a long time, and did not dressed in clothes, and lived not in the house, but in coffins" (Art. 27).

French poet XIX century Charles Pierre Bajler wrote: "The greatest cunning of the devil is to convince us that it does not exist." In fact, the evil is much easier to influence the person, remaining incognito. Demons put in the heart of a person and behave quietly there, a man does not suspect that demons live in his heart, especially if this person denies all the spiritual, the very existence of demons: he deprives himself the opportunity to notice the presence of what I do not believe. Essently for him. If a person does not want to know about demons, does not believe in their existence, for them complete freedom to act in his heart, for it does not accept precautions, does not fight them.

Despite the disbelief and doubt of some people, the devil really exists, and he is personal. After his deposit from God, he became his opponent - the word "Satan" and means "enemy", - and fights with a person who is potentially a crown of divine creation. Being a father of lies, a devil (Greek. "The slander") slander on God and for all the creation of God, seeking to distort it as much as possible or at least to present in the distorted light in the minds of people.

What is a man's man, or obsessed with an unclean spirit?

The essence of the launion is that demons, having received power over a person in the boss of God, constantly or at times, depriving a person of self-consciousness and suppressing his mind, dispose of all his body and the powers of the soul, causing such a relatively incredible torment from his own actions.

Gadarinsky's launched was in an extremely severe degree of obsession, because he did not wear clothes at all (see Art. 27) and demon "For a long time tormented him, so he was associated with chains and bonds, saving it; But he ruled the bonds and was a gentle demon in the desert "(Art. 29). Those. The deva was so convinced by all the composition of this man that he had to tie him so that he would not harm himself, since this unfortunate had no sense of self-preservation. According to his state, we can appreciate how hard demons hate all the creation of God, especially a person, like his image and likeness (see everyday life.1: 26) And in every way they seek to destroy him.

Moreover, the question of the Lord about his name, this unfortunate sufferer is responsible: "legion", and then explains what this name means: "Because many demons entered into it" (Art. 30). The legion of demons instilled in it. The Legion is the large part of the ancient Roman troops, approximately corresponding to the modern army. The army of demons devoted to the Unfortunate Hadarinsky resident.

"Can anyone ask how a whole army can fit in one person? Can. Because the demons are not material, these are the spirits of disembodied, the places in space do not occupy, it can fit them as much as you like in one place - in the heart of the human "(SVT. Luka War-Yasenetsky).

But not always the obsession with demons is manifested in such a severe and ugly form. It is much more likely to happen in another form, so that a person can disable and can not guess what is in captivity in the dark, the evil spirits. "Be Bo, in lawlessness, IMMA is conceived, and my mother Mother Mother" (Ps 50), - Human nature is damaged by sin from the very moment of birth. Living in this world, a person over time, acquires a different kind of sinful inclinations, which, if there is no stubborn struggle with them, litter the heart and soul of a person, so he is often no longer able to abandon the usual satisfaction of his desires.

These manifestations can be expressed in heavy dependencies from drunkenness, drug addiction, tobacocco, from prodigal lusts and follow-up for them, from the passion of anger, in their development that threw out into irritable irritability and even rage, from the heavenly envy, resentment, unreasonable greed, etc. . These are coarse forms, it is impossible to hide from an extraneous eye. But there are forms of addictions that are elegantly disguised, about which the person himself does not think about some kind of evil, but lives "like everything": the desire to eat delicious, praise, to lie in the evening with a TV or a papist of page on the Internet, prosecute about the neighbor or bonded, etc. All these passions, addictions, sins and minor sins envelop a person with sticky and obsessive web, like networks, and he becomes their so-welcome prisoner.

In the message of the apostle Peter about Diavole, it is said that he "He walks like a growling lion, looking for whom to absorb" (1 Pet. 5: 8). And he tends us and our children to get out and put up with darkness through some modern subcultures - ready, emo, through all sorts of halloween, through many modern films and cartoons, in which evil and stirred with good and served in an attractive wrapper, through ugly dragon-like toys, Even children's toothpastes with the image of a green cheerful dragon and are called "Dracosha", as if in such a beautiful and diverse world, there was no more worthy animal to please the children.

"He, seeing Jesus, cried, fell before Him and loud voice said: What do you have to me, Jesus, the son of God of the Most High? I beg you, do not flip me "(Art. 28).Without any doubt, it shouted the demon who was in man, since the latter completely lost the ability of the mind. How did the Lord tormented demons? After all, he did not do anything, just was near.

Already, one presence of the embodied son of God was burning and tormented by demons with fire of Divine Love, whom they do not endure. And then read: "For Jesus commanded an unclean spirit to get out of this man, because he was tormented by him for a long time" (Art. 29). The Lord commanded the demonships to go out and go, apparently, in the hell, in place of their inhabitants. "And they asked Jesus, so as not to command them to go to the abyss. Immediately, a large flock of pigs passed on Mount; And demons asked him to allow them to enter them. He allowed them "(Art. 31-32).Demons ask the Lord not to deprive them to act in the country.

Here I want to draw attention to the fact that demons "Be stopped" (Art. 28) and "ask" (Art. 31) Lord to do what they would like to: enter the flock of pigs. This moment is very important for those people who in difficult life of life are inclined to see damage, the evil eye, whose curse, some kind of inexplicable rock or font. This episode very eloquently indicates that the demons absolutely can not do anything without the permission of the Lord. No evil, illness, etc. Do not touch us if it is not specially faced by the Lord for our correction and salvation. In the book, I wasova Satan, she has led the righteous Ieow for himself, and he could act only then and so how God allowed him. "And the Lord Satan said: That's all that he has in your hand; Only on it do not stretch your hands "(Job 1:12) and further "And the Lord Satan said: Here, he is in your hand, only the soul of his saved" (Job 2: 6). There is no doubt that God has become righteous to Jew, because he knew that her faithful slave would be able to resist his faith and love for the Creator. "And the Lord said to Satan: Did you pay your attention on the servant of my iow? For there is no such thing as he, on Earth: a man is immaculate, fair, god-fearing and removing from evil, and accommodated hard in its indispensability; And you excited me against him to destroy his innocently "(Job 2: 3).At the Lord's secret evening, turning to the apostle Peter, says: "... Satan asked (in the Greek text literally "I rebound") To sow you as wheat, but I prayed for you, so as not to indulge in your faith "(Lux 22: 31-32) . Satan asked the Lord to give him the permission to scroll, moving, shuck, territe students, as it happens with grains, sought through the sieve; But in this case, the Lord did not fulfill his request, knowing that the disciples would not be able to transfer temptations. After all "God is faithful, which will not let you be tempting over forces, but when tempting it will give and relieve, so that you can transfer" (1 Cor. 10:13).

The Lord will protect us as a true Heavenly Father, despite the fact that we constantly turn away from our creator: "And you and your hair on your head everyone is considered. So do not be afraid: you are more expensive than many small birds "(LK.12: 7).

History with Gadarinsky pigs is remembered in the rank of the announcement of the sacrament of baptism. In the second ban, the priest, adding to the devil, says: "Refining, knowing your fumes, even over pigs has no power: I remember those who have led you in your behalf to enter the flock of swine." And then the participants of the sacrament from words go to the case: related "From Satan, and from all his work, and from all the angels of him, and from all his ministry, and from all the pride of him," The baptized (or perception) blows and spits on Satan as a sign of contempt for him, to his powerless malice.

How do we fight and where to seek help from Luta's hatred of demons? The Lord healed this unfortunate person, it means that only in the Lord we will be able to gain relief and consolation from passing passions and misfortunes. At the same time, our own efforts are also necessary. "This genus is expelled only with prayer and post" (Matt. 17:21).

So, the Lord allows demon units to enter the flock of pigs, that they immediately perform, thereby leading animals in insane fury, so pigs rush from high cliff and break about sea stones. Here is a clear example of the Besnowian Evil, which is incessantly looking for his incarnation in any creation of God, without soothing and not stopping for a second, because it is the essence (the need) of being demons.

What is the reaction of the inhabitants of this country, when they learn from the shepherds about the healing of all the famous obsessed rapid, leading to all silent horror? First of all, they "Hurried" (Art. 35). They have no joy of recovery of the poor sufferer and the slightest gratitude to God for his mercy, manifested through this person to all residents of the Gadarin Earth. All nation "I asked him ... to retire from them, because they were embraced by a great fear" (Art. 37). The happened did not enjoyed them: they experienced only scoring horror and fear, as if the further stay of the Lord they had no longer losses. Regretful of lost pigs and the fear of punishment (after all the pig among the Jews is considered an unclean animal, it is forbidden to eat in food, and if the gadarins diluted in such a large number, then, obviously, they violated the law) won their top over natural, it would seem A sense of gratitude to the Lord for the wonderful getting rid of their country from the standnight, and they asked the Lord to leave.

So in eternity - God will not deprive someone the kingdom of God, and the people themselves will reject him, as the residents of the Gadarin Earth rejected the Lord, his power, his salvation.

As for the healed idle, he asks the Lord's permission to stay with him. But the Lord tells him to go home and become a kind of living preaching about his love and mercy. How to transmits us. Apostle Mark, this man began to preach about the Lord all over ten (MK. 5:20) And by this, he prepared the country to the subsequent apostolic preaching and appeal to Christ in the hearts of those who were ready to accept this sermon.

1. During the Earth's Life of the Savior, the Union of Ten Cities, inhabited mainly by Greeks and enjoying special rights.

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About healing is confused [MK. 5: 1-20]

In today's evangelical reading, we heard a story about how the Lord came to the country of Gadarinskaya. The first person he met, was a bad, moreover, a special idol: he lived away from hail in coffins, that is, in the caves in which the dead was buried. And they linked him, and I caught iron chains, but could not cope in any way, "he broke away and fled, hovering horror to the whole country. And Christ, going ashis, first of all went to this man. The undelated met him with the words: "What do you do before me, Jesus, the son of God's life? You came to torment me." And Christ commanded to leave the unclean spirits from this man. "What is your name?" He asked the unclean spirit, and Satan answered him: "Legion," - because many demons entered into this person. The Lord, who kicked up the perfumes from the lane, commanded them to enter the pigs, and the whole herd of the pork rushed from the steepness into the sea and drowned, and the residents, having learned that her herd was killed, and the launched healed, came ashore and saw a man sitting in Clothes, with a clean good face, were horrified and told Christ: "Get away from us," because the fear mastered them. And the launched, on the contrary, said: "Lord, they led me to stay with you." No, "Christ told him," go to my city, and preach that the Lord made you. And he went, and preached that the Lord created him. So it sounds in oral presentation our today's evangelical reading. And so, surprisingly, when you read it, something new always opens. First of all, you pay attention to how the Lord is looking for every person.

The Lord is transferred to the country of Gadarinskaya and makes a miracle there, and from the gospel reading it is clear that it was behind it, he made his way: to find this idle, to meet with a dying person who is so evident forces that his life has become a coffin, refuge death And every uncleanness.

When you read this text on Church Slavonic, you still understand that, indeed, the life of a person is outside the temple, outside the Church of God, outside the grace of Christ, outside the prayer, outside the sacrament, out of the communion, outside of repentance, sooner or later leads to the state of the dead. Then, all that a person surrounds, becomes like a coffin - and his house will be like a coffin, and his life will be like a coffin, and everything will be extremely useless and meaningless, because any life without God is called death, no matter how externally It was decorated, whatever beautiful form did not take. How beautiful such a coffin does not fit, no matter how beautiful the situation there is, it will still be a coffin, because where the Lord does not have - only death and degeneration, there is always underworld.

And here the person reached the edge, crushed the person to such an extent that when the Lord came to him, he told him: You torment me with your arrival. It happens even with everyone: the Lord visits us, and we are scary to get scary from his visit. The Lord comes, and we want to close the door to him, say: no need, just not now, Lord. So, Augustine has a blessed, there are memories of his sinful youth when he already knew about God, he knew that God would love and saves, and understood that the only way in his life was the way to God, but, being connected by passions and sins , said this: "Lord, save me, just not now."

The Lord visits us is not always affectionate, but always comes to save us. Such his love turns out to be a coup of all life, his arrival destroys what we used to build, knocks the backups that we have created. He sweeps them, because all this is false, everything is completely unreliable. It is impossible to build on it. But it seems to us that at this moment everything collapses in our lives. And we can also say: "Why did you come to us? Came to torment us even more?" And in fact, the Lord came to save us. The Lord came to all false and unclean to destroy, everything is wrong to change so that we become real. Not false, not invented, which have not created for themselves and for other illusory world, but quite real - even in their fall, even in their sin. The Lord can save a real sinner, he came to the world for this: not for the sake of false righteous, and for sinful people who deeply and correctly realize themselves before God, they understand who they are.

The legion of the demons expelled from the demonstrated Jesus, so much passions enslaved this person. Each sin, each passion has increased so in it, which made it affordable by any demonic strength. So often the person is striking to some sideling, and at first she seems to be promoting him of some kind of freedom. He thinks: "I will allow myself this in his will, and here I will do freely, and here I will not interfere with any obstacles, I will not forbid any law. I will live by myself. Everything that hinders, I will destroy. And it will be expressing my freedom. "

And so, it turns out that when a person destroys the laws: moral, spiritual, moral, public, - and constantly looking for their freedom, he binds himself with completely terrible bonds. He becomes subject to his passions, he is absolutely enslaved by the demonskie power, which may be so strong in it that no longer one passion torture him, but a whole legion. The Lord sends this Legion in pigs, because pigs are unclean animals, and a person is intended for very high ministry, he is able to grow to a deity, to accept God so that in his desire to become like the son of God. That's how great is a man, and the Lord has expelled any uncleanness from it.

Healed is no longer a larva, but a face, he sits at the feet of Jesus transformed. He was not just healed, it is impossible to heal him against the will of the person, even from the most small passion. Even from the very small sin it is impossible to save a person if a person does not direct her will. It suffered a lack of illness, suffered and suffered, he had his will to heal. This is not written in the Gospel, but this is understandable. Devicious power, first of all, paralyzes the will, but every loose volitional opposition, the direction of his will to the will of God, gives the opportunity to heal us. And this is the only way to salvation. If we truly want to heal from our passions, if we truly want to become different, we need to collect your whole will and send to God. And then the Lord comes.

The healed man said: "Lord, now I want to be with you forever," but the Lord gave him even a higher mission. He said: "Go and preach that the Lord created you," that is, immediately sent him to the apostolic feat. And this man went, and preached, which Jesus created him, which means that he learned in Jesus God, began to preach the name of God.

If we read the gospel narration a little further, we will see that after some time the Lord came to this country again, and this time the Gadarinsky residents met him and did not drive him. After the sermons of the former relative, they adopted the Lord, and he made many miracles there. This suggests how our word is strong for others, what an important testimony. It's not about some kind of mind buildings, not in very beautiful and important words about God, not in what we learned from books, but in how we are transformed by God how much the Lord made us others.

They knew the people of a man of terrible, terrible, fade sins, - and suddenly they saw it to others. He told them how it happened, and nothing else had to say, because it is immediately visible: a person has become different, because he got in touch with Christ. This is the most important power of our sermon.

And we are talking about God to other people, and they themselves remain the same, the same cruel, proud, proud ... Go to the temple, pray, we are confessable, and all the same ... and try to learn others: "Let's come to God, let's pray, Try to live according to the rules that the church gives us. " People listen to us and do not trust us. And correctly do, because it is impossible to believe a person if he was, the same and remained.

And therefore, it is necessary to understand very well how we have to talk about God, how to preach him than to testify to the truth of God's lives so that our testimony does not have the opposite effect.

This reading also says about the people of Gadarinsky, who were driven by Christ. The launched accepted, and these seemingly healthy, normal people refused him in all respects. It turned out that their life, normal, quiet, calm, cozy and safely made them with the same randomly, only one suffered that they own demons themselves, and these lived with their demons in the full world and harmony, because they arranged their lives on purely worldly The foundations, and with the unclean power they were easy to be friends.

They grown pigs, which, according to the law, it was impossible to grow to Moses, but it was beneficial. So they lived their world, even in their own way they prayed, they even tried to externally fulfill the laws of Moses, but their whole life was directed to the arrangement of the earth. They lived with a demonskoy force, and when the Lord came, immediately realized that now their world would collapse, that they are all built, will fall as well as the chains fell with the rampant. And they became scary, and they said: Leave us, leave us to live in our world.

As it looks like our today's life, when the Lord comes to us with miracles, Milosts, generous, and we close it from it. I speak not only about standing here, but about all our people, because we are all very connected with each other. We are all closed from Christ, we do not want to hear his words, we do not want to see his face, we can drive him ...

Metropolitan Anthony Surozhsky (1914 - 2003) - Orthodox bishop, philosopher, preacher.
The whole life of Metropolitan Anthony is the experience of building a truly Christian existence in secular, sometimes cruel and indifferent world. He knew on his experience as it was not easy to be a true Christian in the modern world, and his life was proved that it was still possible. According to the rigorous account: | | | | | | | | .

Healing of the Gadarinsky Pointees

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The story, which we just heard, puts us face to face with three different and incompatible provisions. We see, firstly, the attitude towards the obsessed person of the forces of evil, demons, the forces of evil who are trying to enslave him every way, not to leave anything in it that they would not have been providing them, which would not belong to them to the end than they could not It would take advantage of creating your evil. These forces demonic can be called with all the names of the sin of human: if only we give power in themselves to some sin, we are making sin (about this and the Apostle Paul says in detail). And if we make slaves of sin, then we have the fate of this person in front of us: all my life live as a weapon of evil on earth, in madness, in suffering, in the creation of evil.
But behind this is more terrible. The demons asked Christ to send them to the herd flock. The pigs for the Jews mean uncleanness: the choice of demons go to the herd pork says that all evil that will qualify in us, which we are creating, to whom we are deployed, to whom we give power over yourself - it is defilement and extreme impurity. And we see the limit of this enslave again in the fate of the pork herd: it died, nothing left of him. It fulfilled its task, and was destroyed. Here is the attitude of the forces of evil to us, to each of us, to all of us in aggregate: to communities, families, states, religious, - to all without exception.
And together with this we see the attitude of the Savior of Christ. Before him is the whole tragedy of the universe, and he, as if forgetting this tragedy of the Universe, or rather, seeing her embodied, tragically, in one person, leaves everything to save this man. Can we do it? Can we be able to forget about the big tasks about which we dream of, to focus your attention, give your heart to the end, creatively, tragically, the negligence of one and the only need we can help?
And the third image is the image of the people of the Gadarinski, who knew in what condition this idle, saw the horror of his lack of infants and heard that Christ healed and what price: the price was the destruction of their herd. And they came to Christ, asking him to leave, leave their limits, not to create more wonders that they are "expensive": not even life, not peace, but a real wealth ... That's what they were asked for: Rise from us! Your wonders, your divine love is too for us are overlad - Get out!
We need to think about yourself. We can see ourselves in the image of this idle, because each of us is in the power of those or other passions. In whom there is no envy, there is no bitterness in whom, there is no hatred in whom there are no thousands of other sins. We are all, in one or another, are obsessed, that is, under the rule of the dark forces, and this is their goal: to master us so that we are nothing more than an evil gun that they want to create and can create only through us, but at the same time make We are not only the creators of evil, but also suffermen ...
Think about yourself in relation to other people: do you want to have them? Do we try to rule over them, enslave them, make the guns of our will, the objects of our lusts? Every of us can find exactly such properties, such actions, and see such victims around themselves.
Finally, we think: we are Christ. Do we, being Christ, do not choose the path of Christ, the godfather, the sacrificial way, which can give freedom to others, a new life to others, if only we break away from all that it takes, to pay attention to one real, burning need? We think about it; because the gospel does not apply to us for only to submit images; Gospel - Call and Challenge: Where are you standing, who are you, with whom you? .. Each of us must answer, and answer God: Who are we? Where are we? Amen!

Archpriest Alexey Uminsky (born 1960) - Abbot of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Khokhlah, Member editorial Board of the magazine "Alpha and Omega", the confessor of the Holy Vladimir Orthodox gymnasium. Leading TV shows "Orthodox Encyclopedia": | | | | | | | | | | .

Healing daughter IAIRA [MK. 5: 21-45]

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!

The head of the Jair's Synagogues came to Christ and, bowing to the legs, asked to come to his house, because his twelve-year-old daughter was at death. And Christ said such words: "I will come and healee." But when Christ went to the house of Jaira, he was surrounded by a large crowd of people, as it always happened, and one woman who had fallen with bleeding, all his estate distributed to doctors, but no one helped her, quietly came to Christ, with faith and History to him touched and at that moment he was healed. And so far Christ talked to the woman, came to Jair his servants and said that she had nothing more to ask for a teacher, her daughter died. And Christ told him: "Her beats, just believing." He entered the house of Jair, and then once again confirmed that the girl died. But he said: "No, she did not die, but sleeps." And everyone became even swearing, mocking them. But Christ took the daughter of Jair by his hand, she got up and resurrected from dream of death.

Such miracles today describes the Gospel today. But we will dwell today are not faith of Jair, the head of the synagogue, because what happened to him has a very deep spiritual meaning. It reveals the meaning of our faith, and our prayer, and our relationship with God: our relationship to God, and the relationship of God to us.

With each of us in life there is a situation similar to what happened to Jair. Not literally the same, but there are moments in the life of every person when it seems to him that everything around him dies. It seems that the whole life collapses: the closest relationships die, the best life opportunities and prospects die, the forces are dying. A man remains in emptiness, alone, he has nowhere to go. And so he goes to Christ. He goes with faith and hope, because Christ said about himself: "I am life, I am a way, I am truth." He also told each of us that who would ask with faith and hope in the name of my father, would undoubtedly receive what he needs. He also said that there, where two or three will gather in my name, all your petition will be executed. A lot of such promises will give us Christ in the Gospel. A lot of encouraging and encouraging words tell us the Holy Scripture, they tell us the holy fathers, the church itself says that who will believe in Christ, will not be ashamed. We hear these words at every worship: the believer in Christ will not be ashamed.

And the Jair goes to Christ. And Christ promises: Yes, I will come and hece. And what happens? He does not go. In the eyes of Jair, this situation is happening: he went, and he was detained. He no longer looks at Jair, no longer listens to him, he looks at a bleeding woman, he is completely in her attention. And the crowd is so dense that IAIR will not even approach the Savior. He laid all hope for him. He entrusted his life to him, he was presented to him, Christ promised and did not fulfill. When it was necessary to go to her daughter and save her, he did not go, and everything collapsed, people came and said: Everything, she died, no sense to contact this teacher more. And Christ says to him: do not be afraid, but only faith.

These are very important words, because we often, without waiting for them, unfold and leave Christ. We leave offended, statched, in a state of despair and despair: Christ does not hear us, Christ did not come to us, Christ did not answer our prayer. And these words that the Lord tells us, do not be afraid, but only believe, really believed, until the end we do not hear. But Jair heard, because his tension of his relationship with Christ was such that at all time when Christ did not hear him, no matter how he had turned away from him, he still did not cease to hope for him, did not stop believing. His faith was very active, all-consuming, he could not think about anything as he was about his hope for Christ. And Christ supported him: "Do not be afraid, just believing. Trust God to the end." If God once told you, - I will come and hezel, "hence it will come and healed, because the words of God are not erasing, these are eternal words. Nothing can cancel them, even our small. And Christ comes, takes her daughter by his hand and builds it from mortal sleep.

Here we would learn such faith - to the end and trust God in everything, do not be afraid to believe in it, do not be afraid when the earth leaves, not to be afraid when everyone already says: "What do you think about, why do you believe in God , I need to engage in other cases, to take some actions ... No, Christ does not help you ... You see what life now ... It is necessary to impose hope. " But in any situation, we need to remember that we should not be afraid of this world, we should not be afraid of losing something in this life, if we are next to Christ, if Christ is next to us.

This is the evangelical reading of all hopeless, all desperate, all insane should be sure to strengthen. There is no other help in our lives, except for the help of our Lord itself. No one gives us life except who himself called themselves life, no one will indicate our paths, in addition, who himself called themselves by way, no one will reveal to us any truth besides who himself called himself the truth.

Seeing Iair faith, we will not be afraid that we are Christians. We will not be afraid of what is written in the Gospel. We will not be afraid of the cross that the Lord plays us. We will not be afraid because Christ says: "Do not be afraid." And since he says, he will never leave us. Amen.