(Do not forget – you are in our pharmacy, where we display what we want and how we want (and not everything we have and not as you are accustomed to)! If you are a faithful PTSU (synagogue with a tomos) – I do not know how you got into our pharmacy, as it is only for our own, that is, for those who seek Truth; therefore, I do not even know what to advise-offer you, because we have already tried to have a conversation with your leaders-ideologists – the result is lamentable (see Part III). You ask: how to understand this – you say that every person is the image of God, it is Christ, it is Incomprehensible Beauty, and at the same time you call “Christians” Satanists, heretics, etc.? We have already detailed a lot (see Part II, and especially Part III) about this (that a person is the image of God, and a lost drachma, a sheep that has strayed into the mountains-abysses of delusion-deception-heresy-paganism): why and with what purpose we call “Christians” in this way. If you cannot understand this yourself – call us at the pharmacy).
Once again (for the hundredth time), let us remind you: every person is called to become the Catholic Church (and not a part of the Church, an atom-molecule-screw of a hierarchical system), the hypostasis of the Church, the temple of the Holy Trinity, the Church of the Holy Spirit! People are called not to go to Church, but to become Church, to be Church. Christians do not go to church, they are the Church of Christ! Where Christ is – there is the Catholic Church: “All who have been baptized into Christ have clothed themselves with Christ” and “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me”. Where the Holy Spirit is – there is the Catholic Church: “Every Christian is a temple of the Holy Spirit, the Church of the Holy Spirit”. He who has ears to hear, let him understand a little! Therefore, if you are not a saint (“Eucharist, the Holy for the saints!”), not the Church (even to a small extent, like a mustard seed, you are in the Kingdom of God, in the Holy Spirit, bearing the fruits of the Holy Spirit) – you are not a Christian (and do not hide behind priests, or councils of priests, or Scripture, or communities, parishes… Better start repenting, proclaiming, preparing for baptism with the Holy Spirit)!
And now, before we tell about Prayer and the conditions under which it is performed, let’s say in simple terms for our “grandmothers” and “grandfathers” a few words about Christianity, about the Church of Christ.
Orthodoxy (= Christianity) preaches (testifies) that the true purpose of human life (= Happiness, Bliss) is not to receive some gifts from God, but to become like Him and unite with Him Himself, because God is Love. And there is no higher bliss for a person than Love. And just as lovers seek not gifts, but the person (the beloved) themselves and for the sake of union (marriage) with them (the beloved person) are ready to sacrifice anything, so Christianity knows the meaning of human life in Marital union with the Beloved-Desired, with God in Christ, in the Holy Spirit (“Father, … You gave the Son authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent… That they all may be one: as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so they (all created hypostases) may be one in Us… I in them, and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one” – see John 17). This is achieved by purifying the heart from all evil through the right spiritual life, for the Kingdom of God is within us (see Luke 17:21; that is, among us, outside of us, but only those Christians who have received the Holy Spirit (Who is the Kingdom of God) – have let Christ (Who is the Kingdom of God) into their heart! For Christians, the Kingdom of God is already everywhere – and with them, among them and in them, and for pagans (and catechumens) – only among them, with them, but not in them, until they are baptized with the Holy Spirit!). This path (proclamation) is right (ascetic) prayer and life according to the Gospel commandments with unceasing repentance (following Jesus Christ, that is, life in Christ, with Christ, for Christ with a humble and contrite heart, which is the fruit of repentance in shortcomings-falls in this following of the Lord Jesus Christ).
Let’s say a few words about “Church” and “church” for our “old villagers”. Church (with a capital “C”) is Christ and His disciples (Christ’s, Christians), and church – is all those thousands, millions, billions of people who crowd, push around Christ and His disciples, seeking health, happiness, well-being, glory, prosperity-glory of the state, glory of the nation… they do not need Christ (as a self-sufficient Value), they need Christ’s! Therefore, those who seek Truth, who come to Christ, must be wise and not hope that around Christ – all are immensely loving Him people! In the days of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ in the flesh, thousands of people followed the Lord – the blind, the deaf, the mute, the crippled, the sick, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Herodians, the seekers of miracles and signs… But among those thousands of seekers of bread (“You seek Me (the Son of God, not because I am the Only Value for you, but…) because you ate the bread and were filled” – see John 6:26) and spectacles (“we want to see a sign… ” (Matthew 12:38, Luke 11:29), “what sign will You perform then, that we may see… ” (John 6:30), “… for he (Herod) hoped to see some miracle done by Him” (see Luke 23:8)), and the glory of the nation and the death of enemies (“We were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel (our country-state-empire and make it prosper, and make all enemies our slaves…)” (see Luke 24:21)) there was a small flock of disciples (Christ’s, Christians)! And to this day the Church is a small flock among the church, among those millions, billions of water-baptized “Christians”, who only by name are Christians, but in essence and in spirit are enemies of the Cross of Christ, faithful of the synagogue of the antichrist (“you will know them by their fruits”).