Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband” (Eph. 5:18-33).
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” (2 Cor. 11:2).
“Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints… Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:6b-9a).
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev. 22:17).
No one is Happy – only God and those who are partakers of Him, those who have become gods by grace. Only God and the gods (God’s), who are deified by the Holy Spirit, who in Christ have become heirs of the Kingdom of God – the Love of the Father – the Life of the Holy Trinity, those who have known the Father in the mystery of the Marital unity of the Eucharist (I in You, and You in Me, We in them, and they in Us united by the Divine unity of love perichoresis). Love-Romance-Eros does not tolerate fragmentation, partiality… Therefore, before the coming of Christ the Savior (Healer), Happiness was unthinkable (people did not even know that God is Love, and that Happiness is to Love and be Loved! – otherwise they would have accepted the Son of the Father, the Cross of Christ. This world condemned itself to unhappiness – rejecting the Cross of Christ, the cross path to resurrection… In this world, there was no happiness and there will not be; Happiness – is in the Church, in the Kingdom of God, so anyone who wants to be Happy must become a Christian – Christ’s).
The Kingdom of God – the Kingdom of Love-Eros – was given (the Path and the Door to it laid) on Pentecost, when the Lord brought down to earth the Fire of the Holy Spirit – the Fire of Divine Love-Eros. From now on, we can already be Happy here and now (we have always been Divinely Loved (by God)! every moment!), that is, we can Love Divinely in the Holy Spirit (“Love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit; and this is not from us – this is a Gift of God!”). A Christian is one who burns every moment with the fire of Love-Eros for God and with the fire of Mercy for creation, which is still “groaning and suffering, awaiting the revelation of the sons of God” (“And what does a merciful heart mean? A heart that burns for all creation: for people, birds, animals, spirits (demons) and all created things. And from the memory of them, and from the contemplation of them, his eyes pour out tears. From great and strong mercy, which has seized the heart, and from great patience his heart is diminished – and he cannot bear or hear or see any harm or even the slightest sorrow that happens in the created world. Because of this, he prays every hour for the irrational, for the enemies of the truth, and for those who do him harm, that they may be preserved and forgiven, and similarly – for the nature of reptiles, because of his great mercy, which moves in his heart without measure, because man is created in the likeness of God” – see St. Isaac the Syrian. Ascetical Homilies. Homily 81; Ascetical Discourses. Homily 48). “By this shall all men know that you are My (Jesus Christ’s) disciples (Christians, Christ’s; that is, disciples of Love, Divine Love – partakers of the Hypostatic Personal Being of the Holy Trinity), if you have love one to another.” And as a result – the reaction of the pagans to Christians in this adulterous, pleasure-loving, unloving, selfish world (each for himself): “See how they (Christians) love one another (and all)!”