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Faithful Steward 9/99 Issue 24, 2006 The Faithful Steward A Newsletter of the Holy Orthodox Church in North America “We are all called to be faithful and wise stewards, ever waiting for the coming of our Lord.” LUKE 12:40-46 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy Excerpts from the Sixth Homily in Ten Homilies on the Beatitudes St. John of Kronstadt Translated by Professor N. Kizenko-Frugier Copyright 2003 Cornerstone Editions he Lord says, Blessed are the great responsibility for them, if you ters, you will yourself receive mercy Tmerciful, for they shall obtain hunger and thirst for God’s justifi- from God. For a fleeting mercy you mercy. What do sinful people need will receive eternal most of all? They need God’s mercy mercy; for a small to manifest itself in not demanding act of mercy you from us according to our sins. They will receive an need God’s forbearance, which gives immeasurably great us enough time for repentance. They mercy. Not only will need their own souls’ impulse you be shown mercy towards repentance, they need for- from eternal con- giveness of sins, and, finally, they demnation at God’s need mercy at God’s Dread Judg- judgment, but you ment. This is why the Church says so will also receive often in our name, “Lord, have eternal beatitude. mercy!” Everyone can Fellow sinners! If you have easily show mercy already acknowledged yourselves to to those around be the greatest sinners, worthy of him, because mercy every censure and torment, if you is diverse, just as a have known the vileness and the person’s needs are absurdity of sins, if you sense how different, just as immeasurably you offend the Lord people’s rank and God through them, if you feel your calling in society are different. The head CONTENTS of an organization Blessed are the Merciful . 1 can show mercy The Ministry of the Deacon. 3 through patience, Father Alexander 1928– 2006 . 6 through lenience Axios! . 8 towards those who St. Tatiana Orthodox Mission Chapel. 10 sin, and through Report From Guatemala . 11 rewarding the mer- Integrating Marriage with Liturgy . 12 cation and mercy, then try to show its of his or her subordinates. In all the mercy you can to those turn, the subordinate can show St. Paul’s Fellowship of Labor . 13 around you: Blessed are the merci- mercy by being punctilious, obedi- Friends of Ugandan Orphans Walk . 14 ful, says the Lord, for they shall ent, and diligent. Learned people Bread Cast Upon the Waters . 15 obtain mercy. Because of the mercy can show mercy to their neighbors Geriatric Squad of St. Philaret House . 15 you show to your brothers and sis- by enlightening the ignorant; by The Faithful Steward articulating and spreading the right opinions about life, From these words of the Lord you see, brothers, faith, the goal of people’s being on earth, earthly bless- how necessary and infinitely important Christian ings, death, God’s righteousness, and the eternal judg- mercy is to us. It is necessary because without acts of ment; or, conversely, by condemning social vices. Rich mercy we cannot inherit the kingdom of the heavenly people can show mercy to their neighbors by donating Father prepared for the blessed from the time the world to the needs of the church and its servants, to charita- was created, and in that judgment there will be no ble organizations, or by giving generous alms to the mercy for the person who has shown none (James poor. Poor people can show mercy through their grati- 2:13). It is infinitely important because the mercy we tude and eagerness to serve the wealthy, and by pray- show to our neighbor we show to Jesus Christ Himself, ing for their benefactors. The pastor can show mercy according to His own testimony: anything you did for by his sincere and constant attention to saving people’s one of my brothers here, however insignificant, you did souls, by instructing them in God’s word, by constant for me (Matthew 25:40). All people, especially Chris- readiness to carry out parishioners’ requests for serv- tians, are His younger brothers and sisters, and Chris- ices,* and by counsel, advice, and consolation. The tians are the members of His body. flock can show its mercy by deference, respect, and Spiritual acts of mercy include the following: gratitude to their pastors, by tolerance for their short- 1) Converting the sinner from error through comings, and by earnest prayer for them. The most important works of physical mercy admonishment. This can mean the unbeliever, the non- which everyone can show are the following: Orthodox Christian, the schismatic, or a drunkard, an 1) feeding the hungry, adulterer, someone who is spendthrift, and so on. 2) giving the thirsty drink, 2) Instructing the ignorant in truth and good. This 3) dressing those who lack necessary and decent can mean teaching someone to pray, or instructing clothing, someone who does not know God’s commandments in 4) visiting people in prison, those commandments and in how to fulfill them. 5) visiting the sick, serving them, and aiding their 3) Giving one’s neighbor good advice at the right recovery, or helping to prepare them for a Christian moment, whether he is going through a bad time, or is end by calling a priest to give them confession and in some danger which he does not notice—if he is sick, communion of Christ’s Holy Mysteries, for example, or if he has evil plans for someone’s life or 6) taking travelers into one’s house and caring for well-being. them, and 4) Praying to God for everyone: Pray for one 7) burying those who die in poverty at one’s own another, that you may be healed, says the Apostle expense or with donations gathered for this purpose. (James 5:16). The Lord Himself reminds us of all these deeds of 5) Consoling the sorrowing: Encourage the faint- mercy, except for the last, in His depiction of His last hearted, says the Apostle (I Thessalonians 5:14). Dread Judgment. Here are His words: When the Son of 6) Not revenging or seeking requital for the evil man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels which people did to you. Never pay back evil for evil with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: (Romans 12:17), or abuse with abuse (I Peter 3:9); Do And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he not seek revenge, but leave a place for divine retribu- shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd tion (Romans 12:19). divides his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the 7) Forgiving wrongdoing from the bottom of your sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. The heart, knowing and remembering that the person who king will say to those on right, “You have my Father’s wrongs another wrongs himself above all, bringing blessing; come, take possession of the kingdom that down the great wrath of God upon himself. Remember has been ready for you since the world was made. For that he wrongs because of the instigation of the enemy, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was that we deserve injuries because of our sins, and, thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you finally, that God forgives us the sins and insults we took me into your home; when naked, you clothed me; cause His greatness. when I was ill, you came to my help; when in prison, *Treby, the term St. John uses here, refers to such extra-liturgical services you visited me” (Matthew 25:31-36). as molebens and panikhidas. Issue 24, 2006 2 The Faithful Steward The Ministry of the Deacon By Protodeacon Photios Touloumes he ministry of the deacon is based on the ministry The Apostles were the first to receive this mandate Twhich Christ performed for us. This ministry is one of service from Christ and they in turm set up an offi- of service and was expressed by Christ with these cial priesthood to insure its continuation in the words: “I am among you as one who serves.” With Church. They appointed the first bishops and deacons these words Christ reversed the order of things, for He so that Christ’s ministry might be extended and main- who is higher than the heavens became a servant for tained for the salvation of all men. our salvation. The master becomes a servant and makes service to others the path to salvation. “You THE DIACONATE know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It In what we have said above, the words service, ser- shall not be so among you; but whosoever would be vant and ministry can be substituted by the words dea- great among you must be your servant, and whosoever con or diaconate. Scripture uses these words in this would be first among you must be your slave; even as way. Literally, deacon means servant or waiter. Very the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and early in the Church, as recorded in Acts, the words dea- to give His life as a ransom for many.” con and diaconate came to be used as the designation Because, therefore, service of a specific office, part of the unto others is the content of official ministry of the Church.
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