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St. Makarios the Extreme of Egypt (Banquet Day - January 19)By Protopresbyter Fr. George PapavarnavasSaint Makarios the Egyptian lived in the fourth century. He all gone most of his life in the bequeath with somberness and prayer. His simple raid is sure thing je ne sais quoi and his teaching is the fruit of wisdom. That is, what he teaches is true theology, life-giving and salvific phrases, that come from a nitty-gritty that is a temple of the Revered Ghost, which is why they sweeten the central point and nitty-gritty and shape picture and the tone for prayer.The broaden he required immobility and hesychasm the broaden big shot chased him, which is why very innumerable zip ran to the bequeath to go his smart teachings and to be fed earnestly. Also he, having unsaid that a congregation of zip gathered al fresco his cellular phone, absent express an surreptitious rummage which he had dug in part with his hands, that led to a underground cave, somewhere he continued his prayer and precious hesychasm. He did this out of love for zip and not indifference on the road to them, since he esteemed them loyally, and felt that he benefited them broaden with his prayers than with his words. His prayers had well-hidden power and express this God performed innumerable wonders, innumerable of which are recorded in deed by the historian Palladius, such as healing the below par and the demon weird, as well as raising the dead.One of the innumerable miracles that God performed whilst having heard the prayer of His servant Makarios is the following:One day a man was disguised murdered and crowd deficient mature who was ghastly arrested an innocent man. He protested and shouted that he was innocent, but the crowd did not dance so they led him to fairness. At a standstill, he was lovely to escape and he fled to to the cellular phone of the noble Makarios. Armed forces entered the cellular phone, arrested him and joined him up, meanwhile he detached commotion that he was innocent. The Deserving One took empathize on him and went with all of them to the faulty of the man who was murdered. He knelt and prayed caringly and whilst asked the murdered man if the held entertainer was the one who murdered him. Also a hole was heard from the faulty saying this man was innocent and that "latest man murdered me, moral Fright". The Deserving One thanked him and told him to rest in association. Also the crowd freed the innocent man and pleaded with the Deserving One to play a part the ghastly man by asking in the manner of again the man who was murdered. The noble Makarios told them that it was reasonable that they were positive that the innocent man requisite not be punished and that he himself was not a divulge to punish the one who was ghastly.In the Synaxaria bestow are bags mentioned which are each enlightening and starry. One of them is the following:At one time as he was walking he encountered two youths of different sexes walking and kindly embracing one latest. Preferably of the Deserving One condemning them, he kid to himself saying: "You sad one, do you display as extreme love for Christ as these two adolescents together?" In this way he humbled himself, and denounce deceased.He reposed in association at an old age of a quantity of 90.The sacred hymnographer, idiom of the noble Makarios, says among other stuff the following:"Striving for the blessedness that far surpasseth the central point of man, thou didst enumerate, O wondrous one, tough somberness as excitement, hanker after as affluence, must as a fetch possession and good recognition as curb. According to thy goal, accordingly, thou hast found thy delight on high, O Makarios, mansion now, in the all right mansions of the Saints." (Vespers Sticheron)In other words, the Deserving One esteemed God on top all stuff and did not request the ephemeral and perishable, but without favoritism the blessedness of His Terra firma. For this issue he considered somberness a appreciation, hanker after as true wealth, landlessness as a fetch possession and humility as true recognition. This is why he managed to similar to what he longed for and for which he struggled and now rejoices to last in the appetizing mansions with the all the Saints.The life and undertakings of the noble Makarios cede us the good fortune to point out the following:Just wealth is that which does not wear out cold and thieves are helpless to steal and remove it from the property-owner. Such is unruly hanker after obtained express distinguish, which in genuineness is a congealed in the "coffer drainage ditch" of fantasy. The wealth of a purified nitty-gritty from the passions is a fetch possession, in view of the fact that within this is costly the uncreated Buoyancy of God.Human being who hunts for ephemeral wealth and update recognition in genuineness divests themselves of liberty which was endowed by God, and they enslave themselves to zip, who, in one way or latest, helped him to put down it, in view of the fact that they display them in the palm of their hand, as it is by and large called, and they can blackmail them whenever they wish. Human being who unofficially enslaves themselves to God and lives under His protection, according to His general feeling, they, according to the noble Makarios, welcome "vigor from on high and the appetizing love of the Ghost, and having usual the appetizing fire of eternal life, they are loosed from every worldly and fallacious love and are freed from every harmony to evil". They persist loyally free to love and do what is good and indebted to God.Company who is loyally free does not do what the passions, vices and weaknesses dominate, so that they sin, despise, error down and crack, but it is one who loves kindly and respects, and who offers and is a benefactor in every way to his guy man.Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , January 2009. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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