Faith is the notice I put my trust, conviction of things unseen, faith is nothing else but only to believe in what you do not see it.
Members of the faith, made up of the cathedral, the former of Nicaea and Constantinople, twelve, namely:
1. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
By this term is derived the following teaching. God is the essence and distinctive wines of all things: the original, that is, from anything else has no life and no one is created, and all other things being and staying confers. In God is one being and nature, and the officials of the three: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, but these three are one essence. And in this Holy Trinity is not the first or last, no more or less, but one-piece three Persons soprisnosuschny Himself and equal, why should be believe that there is a trinity in unity and unity in Trinity.
In this Sacred Trinity God is Spirit immaterial and no feelings are not our subject. So do not be so unreasonable to think that God would be similar to the composition of the human, and supposedly has a head, beard, hands and feet. He is the head of all, because everything has a beginning, all the eye, for all the spots, the entire ear, for all hearing, all of the hand, because all contain; whole leg, because everywhere. He is the Wise, penetrating into the present and the future, in the angelic and human secret thoughts, razumevaya thoughts from afar; Preblagy, in holiness of His inscrutable and unchanging, the Almighty, the share of the world out of nothing, and even created a word, all perfection, but what is good , having in himself. Above is God's property, that is, omnipotence, under the name of the Almighty put up in this term because no creation of Omnipotence can not be named. And this omnipotence of God is to understand perfectly, excluding any nemoguschestvo, for example: God can not be angry or to lie.
It is called the God of the Creator because the one His divine word in six days the entire visible, that is sky, land, sea, air, trees, animals, and man in the flesh, but also the invisible, that is, the angels and the soul.
God created man as well: vzem dust from the ground, made him and breathed into him the breath of life, as it has created for His glorification and heritage of eternal life, inscribed in his heart his image and likeness, giving him immortality, which he ruined his sin crime through the commandments of God commanded the eating of the tree of the desire to be God himself. And so he became a full decay, the body exposed, ill health and the time of death, and the soul became angry and sin shall bow. By nature he was worthy of eternal destruction, having been convicted by the righteous wrath of God on the endless torment,
therefore, and all his descendants, all the sin that involved, subject to the steel.
Although God is all-knowing, and I knew that this man, that is, Adam will make, but it did so I did not want to sin man has won his kindness and love, and that it would be an obstacle to his will. Besides, before the sun to be, defined God the Father to send His Son into the world that He cleansed by the blood of his own sin and reconciled man with God. Whereof and Adam knew through the ad promised Seed.
Under the name of invisible angels are understood. Of these, some good and some evil will of its own. Of good angels are countless: they are separated by only nine faces, and these nine into three ranks. In the first thrones, cherubim, seraphim, in the second: the power of domination, power, and the third: angels, archangels, principalities.
2. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father, through whom all things were made (Luke 2: 11, 1 Jn. 5: 1, Ps. 2: 7, 109, 3; Eph. 3: 9; Number. 1: 15)!
This member teaches that the Son of God is the true God, born of the Father before all ages, now and forevermore, that he edinochesten edinoslaven and to God the Father and that He is the Creator of all things, time and age (John 17: 5, 8, 12; 1Jn.. 1: 5).
Jesus is the Savior, and Christ - the Anointed One, as in the Old Testament priests, kings and prophets were anointed by iereystvo, and the prophecy of the kingdom: therefore they called Christ. Christ by incarnation carried in his three titles, for he was a priest, prophet and king. Therefore, and in the Scriptures one befitting him as priest, another as the King, otherwise the same as the prophet (Isaiah 60 :19-20; 1 Jn. 5: 20, Jn. :3-17 Ps. 2: 6, 109, 4; Eur. 1: 3).
Christ is called the Son of God, begotten on the merits, but those were representatives of some koi his sons, and called the children of God by grace, not by nature (John 1: 12, 1 Cor. 8: 6).
3. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man (Matthew 1: 21, Jn. 3: 17).
The Son of God for the salvation of the human race, who died in sin, come down from heaven to earth, without changing the place and no time apart from the Father, but with him being one and the same God as the throne, and in Mary's womb. He conceived, the invasion of the Holy Spirit, and to accept the truth, and not seeming humanity, and not from the heavens signified it blew, but woven from the blood of the Blessed Virgin. He was the perfect man, with all its parts and the soul of the words, and connected with the Divine. In one person was both true God and true Man. As Deity did not change in humanity and it was not in place of the soul, and humanity has not changed in the Godhead, but was perfect in the one Person with two natures all properties except sin (John 6: 38, 1: 14, Matt. 1: 18 , 20; Phil. 2: 7, Luke. 20: 41).
By this term we learn more, and the fact that the Virgin Mary is the true Mother of God, before Christmas, Christmas Day and Christmas Day may endure, it is most pure, incorruptible Virgin, which everyone should give thanks, for she has received to serve this great mystery. Therefore, the Church and folded her praise of the words of the Archangel Gabriel and St. Elizabeth, and ought to think and say that the praise And this occurred from God Himself.
4. Was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried (Matthew 27: 2, 18, 24, 26, 38, Jn. 19: 5, 16-18, 28).
Christ is the Son of God for our iniquity, by which we grieved and dishonored the infinite and extremely good God, according to His will truly suffered on the cross - not the Deity, but in the flesh, and the death and blood for all Jezliah also true, without any sin ( Lk. 24: 26; 1 Pet. 2 :21-22).
Herein need to know that the Divine, for the perception of humanity, never to be parted from him, either during the passion and death on the cross, nor in death. Although the soul and parted from the body, but the Deity has never been apart of any of the flesh, nor of the soul. Therefore, the time of death and Person of Christ was one and the same. Christ is the soul separated from his body, came down with the Divine into hell to free the souls of the saints of our forefathers and to bring them to heaven, and with them the thief (John 19 :40-42).
The death of Christ was different from the others for the following reasons: first, because of the gravity of our sins, and secondly, because it is done on the cross, as the altar, the priesthood through he brought a sacrifice to God the Father Himself for our nation, finally, because of the performance of the application and of reconciliation between God and man.
Since there is a question about the cross, it will not be obscene to offer up in this term, and something about him.
Thus, the cross should shalt honor and worship, for it is the power given by God through the outpouring of blood on him the Son of God, the power of driving out to the devil, who are on the invocation of the name of Christ runs away from his banner. Revered as it ought to give as well as osmikonechnomu and chetverokonechnomu, because we venerate the cross is not for the number of ends, but because in it the mystery, the required for our salvation, and it illuminated the priceless blood of Christ. In the Old Testament there were many cross chetverokonechnogo prototypes, such as the hands of Jacob, composed for the blessing of the sons of Joseph, Moses' hands, ascended to the victory over Amalek, and so on. Depict the same sign of the cross should be the three big fingers right hand clasped together. For thus tells Cathedral, the former in Kiev over the monk Martin, and also claims the Holy Patriarch of Antioch, Macarius in response to questioning the message of the Patriarch of the Russian Nikon. Moreover, the arm of St. Andrew proves the same thing. Furthermore, the addition of these things fingers taken in the East, which has four of the patriarchate of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem.
5. And He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15 :3-4). Lord Christ by the power of His Deity rose from the dead. Risen is not the Deity, but in the flesh, who was born, suffered, and died.
6. And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father (1 Peter 3 :21-22). His body of Christ, to whom suffered and rose again, ascended into heaven as man, and sat down at the right hand of the Father, but as God, He's always been in heaven and everywhere. His humanity He never gave up and leaves, but he's also come to earth and judge.Humanity of Christ does not stay anywhere, so when there is in heaven, then not have it on the ground. In a mysterious way, which is located in the Eucharist, He is the Son of God on earth, God and man, for through the transubstantiation of bread being premenyaetsya being honest in His Body and wine being - being honest in his blood.
7 . And shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end (Acts 1 : 11).
At the time of the coming of Christ on earth, all of them give an answer in court for the actions, words and thoughts, and every time vospriimet due reward for the righteous - the eternal blessing and heritage joyful life, and sinful - the curse and get accursed eternity (Matt. 25 : 13, 2 Tim. 4 : 1, 2 Pet. 1 : 11). The court will be twofold: special and general. The special will be with every man at his death, for then he will see all of their deeds. The general judgment will be when the whole world becomes God, and where no questions will be justified righteous and sinners shall be judged for ever, because then everyone will own conscience for him instead donositeli. About the same time, the court, when it will be, nobody knows. There are only signs of it, namely the Gospel will be preached to all nations, and will be the great war, death, famine, and signs in the sky.
After such a court souls of the righteous and the wicked, not all are of equal status, but looking at the merits and crimes.
Sinful man can escape from hell to court, but not by yourself, and alms, expend the estate of the righteous, and prayers, but mostly bloodless sacrifice.
Purifying fire, which is being claimed Papists, no, never was and never will. The souls of the righteous are in heaven, and sinners in hell, but ultimately for their own and reward the righteous and the wicked saw a total of torture is not, but after the trial, united with the body, they priimut these things.
8 . And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord of Life-giving, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, Who spoke by the prophets (Acts 19 : 6, 2 Cor. 3 : 17).
The Holy Spirit is God and edinoslavny consubstantial to the Father and to the Son, and proceeds from the Father as the source and the beginning of the Divine. He is the inventor of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and the New, and he also acted in the holy fathers at the Ecumenical Councils (Rom. 8 : 11; Jn. 15 : 26).
His seven gifts is as follows:
1.Wisdom prespevayuschaya in all sorts of virtues in purity and unflattering heart (1 Cor 13 : 12).
2 . Mind, consisting in the knowledge of the will of God.
3.Council that promotes the glory of God and the salvation of the soul (2 Peter 1 : 21).
4. The fortress, that is waking up in faith and strength in temptation.
5 . Knowledge for teaching someone the law.
6. Piety, predvodimoe prayer and good works.
7. The fear of God, like the fear of a son before his father.
Nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. And the other virtues, as committed by the Holy Spirit, are the fruits of His own.
9. In One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church (Eph. 2 :19-22, 1, 22, Tim. 3, 15).
The Church is the congregation of the faithful, and there is one catholic and apostolic. It began in Jerusalem, so the Church of Jerusalem is the mother of all churches. From it began to spread the gospel to the ends. Christ himself is the base and the head of the assembly of the faithful God. Every Orthodox Christian should, as a true son of the Church to obey and fulfill its commandments, of which there are nine (Matt. 18: 17).
It is necessary:
1) pray to God ruefully on Sundays and public holidays and listen to church music;
2) maintain offices and the environment and the heel, and;
3) read the priests, especially the spiritual fathers;
4) confess and partake of the Holy Eucharist four times each year;
5) those who are not trained to the Holy Scriptures, not to read heretical books and listen to their teachings;
6) to pray for the authorities, for the souls of the dead and the treatment of heretics;
7) Keep those posts and prayer, which for any reason are installed bishop;
8) does not take the worldly possessions of the church by force, and spiritual - to take care of all the needs and decorating;
9) marriages in the posts do not marry and do not walk on vozbranennye for Christians merrymaking.
10. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins (Ephesians 4: 5).
There comes to mind the sacrament of baptism. Therefore, to properly explain all the mysteries of this: the mystery is the work of God that He gives, or marks on us His grace, or otherwise: a sacrament is a religious rite, in which, under any visible way is introduced into the soul of the believer of God's grace (John 3 5, Matt. 28: 19, Acts. 2: 38).
In the sacrament requires three things: first, befitting the mystery substance, such as water in baptism, the bread and wine in communion, and secondly, the bishop or priest ordained by law, and thirdly, the invocation of the Holy Spirit with the words, with which the priest consecrates the sacrament by the power of the Holy Spirit, with firm faith in the consecration of the sacrament.
Sacraments are set to serve as a sign of the true sons of the Church, and that all had an undoubted weakness doctoring their sins.
Only seven sacraments:
• Baptism, which mocked the forefathers Adam's sin, reconciles man with God and opens the entrance to the kingdom of God. It takes the same way: "baptized servant of God (name) in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Baptism in the case of death can produce and worldly person.
• Confirmation, affirming our faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. It takes the words, "Seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit."
• The Eucharist, in which, under the appearance of bread and wine is given the true Body and Blood of Christ, our God. It takes the invocation of the Holy Spirit in these words: "Lord, Thy Holy Spirit nizposli upon us and Gifts predlezhaschiya collective consensus and create to slaughter this bread - the precious Body of Thy Christ, and hedgehog in this bowl - the precious Blood of Thy Christ, ultimately offer thy Holy Spirit."
• Priesthood, which has a special power to make chinopolozhenno Divine Sacraments. It is taught by God through episcopal ordination and committed the following prayer: "God's grace is always feeble vrachuyuschi and faileth vospolnyayushi, prophesies (name) blagogoveyneyshago deacons to the priesthood," etc. Here and else worthy of note that, apart from this mystery of the priesthood, there is also a spiritual priesthood, whose members are all Christians (Revelation 7: 9, 1 Pet. 2: 9).
• Repentance, in which the sins of the heart distressed. It is made by the prayer priest: "Our Lord Jesus Christ will forgive you" and so on. He who comes to repentance must take care that all the sins that once again by repentance, to practice before the priest humbly, reverently, truly, sincerely, to censure himself, not as a confession before a man, but not before by the all-seeing eye of God, not adding and without prejudice to anything, it should be filled with all sorts of contrition and sorrow for their sins, offended God and neighbor. Similarly, the penance he should willingly accept and execute and put the firm intention never to return to their former iniquities.
• Marriage, connecting the two faces in an insoluble cohabitation in taking care of their own assent.
• Unction, feeding the forgiveness of sins and the health of the body.
11. I look for the resurrection of the dead (John 5 :28-29).
Here are two exercises. The first is that the rise of the body of all people of good as well as evil, and the second is the fact that every soul is connected with the body of his own, will receive the award worthy of its affairs. In addition, we here learn to what is necessary to remember every death, hell, judgment, and the kingdom of God.
12. And the life of the world. Amen (Isaiah 9: 6).
In the next century on the chosen of God will descend blessings of God, and they shall inherit eternal life in joy and gladness infinite spirit, which eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and to a man's heart had risen. In this life, the soul will rejoice with the body, and thus inseparable. There will be a different joy to the soul and the other for the body as the body will be glorified, people will be composed of body and soul will be celebrated and then he is like the angels, without the need for and abominable idols. Joy and gladness will also not be anything else but only in beholding the blessed Trinity and the spiritual thanksgiving (1 Corinthians 2: 9, Rom. 14: 17).
About hopes
Hope is the true courage to God bestowed the human heart by God's inspiration and enlightenment, or else: hope is a virtue, fed from above, through which the solid faith anticipated benefits of eternal life (Matthew 22: 2, 1 Cor. 15: 22, Revelation. 22: 12). Virtue And this is based on the grace that is given to us by Jesus Christ, and to the keeping of the commandments of God, as it is approved fellowship of the Body and Blood of Christ and constant prayer. It should explain the prayer and nine beatitudes.
Prayer is a petition to God with warm faith and with the hope of getting if asked according to His will. It is three-fold. The first is the one way we thank God for the blessings, and most of all for the freedom of our souls from the enemy. The second is one in which we ask God to forgive our sins, and He poured out on us His grace in the soul and the body. The third prayer is that which we are singing for the Lord bless His unapproachable splendor and eternal glory.
In addition, prayer is general and special. Overall there is one that many in one place, or especially in the temple we ascribe to God in oneness of mind and harmony hearts of worshipers. And especially - is that which ascends to God for every yourself apart in a secluded and intimate place. Prayers are needed for chastity and devotion, reconciliation with enemies and forgiveness, rejection of all worldly cares and patience with thanksgiving.
What is the Lord's Prayer? "Our Father, Who art in heaven" and so on. It is divided into three parts: introduction, application and conclusion.
The first part, preface.
Our Father, Who art in heaven.
These things preface teaches the next.
1) Praying must come to God not only as the creation of it, but as a son by his grace.
2) It has to be the son of the Orthodox Church.
3) Do not have to question if asked by obtaining premiloserdogo Father.
4) Since God is the Father of all, we ought to live as brothers.
5) The word "in heaven" instructs us to build our mind from the earth to the sky. In addition it must be said that although God is present everywhere, but especially shines in heaven's grace, saturating the righteous, and His wondrous wealth of affairs.
The second part is a petition which seven are:
1. Hallowed be thy name.
In this petition, we beg: first, to grant us pious and virtuous life, that everyone who looks at it glorified the name of God, and secondly, that the non-leading appealed to the Orthodox faith, and have glorified the Father in heaven with us, and third, to bear the name of a Christian, but transmitting life in wickedness and abominations, escaped from his vices, with which to speak evil of faith and our God.
2 . Thy kingdom come.
We therefore request that is not a sin, and God himself reigned in all of us with His grace, righteousness and yearning. In addition, the petition contains the idea that the people, under the grace of God and feeling the joy of heaven, and despises the world would like to receive the Kingdom of God. Finally here we pray and how to speed it was His Second Coming.
3. Thy will be done.
We pray here that the God did not allow us to transmit our lives according to our will, but to manage it as he pleases, and that we had no resistance to his will, but to obey Him in all things. In addition, we have in mind and the idea that without the sufferance of the will of God can not come to us nothing from anyone, and never, if only we lived according to His will.
4. Our daily bread Give us this day.
We ask here, first, that God has not deprived us of preaching and of the knowledge of His holy word, for the word of God is the spiritual bread, without which a man is killed, and secondly, that he has granted us communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, and in- Third, that gave us everything we need for life and have kept it all in this world in prosperity, but without excess. The word "this day" means the time of our present life, for in the next century we will enjoy the contemplation of God.
5 . And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Here, we ask that God has given us the forgiveness of sins, for a debt here are understood sins. This application teaches us that we are forgiven our debtors debts, that is provoked to anger and to embitter us we forgave all their crimes. Who does not forgive his neighbor, who works in vain this very prayer, for then he is not God and sins are forgiven, and even the prayer it is a sin.
6 . And lead us not into temptation.
We therefore ask: first, that we were free from the temptations that come from the world, the flesh and the devil, and driving us to sin, and from the heretics, persecute the Church and our souls deceived by a false doctrines and other means, and secondly, to in the case of suffering for Christ, God has strengthened us by his grace to the suffering of suffering, even to the end, yes vospriimem end suffering, and do not forbid to suffer beyond the power of our own.
7 . But deliver us from evil.
Here we plead, first, that God protected us from all sin and the devil, exciting to sin, and secondly, the fact that He saved us in this life from all disasters, and thirdly, in order to time of death, he drove us to the enemy of the wealthy consume our lives, and we sent the angel is peaceful, storing us.
The third part, or the conclusion:
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen.
Finally, these things according to the preface, for a preface teaches that we get asked of the Father premiloserdnogo and conclude these things shows that we obtain the desired of Him. After all, his - the whole world, His - His power and - thanks to which we must ask. The word "amen" means "so be it", or "really and truly." This conclusion can speak and commoner alone without priesthood.
Inasmuch as the above, and bliss, that is the first word of the first preaching of Christ, inclined to hope, and then for them to say the following.
Beatitudes of nine, namely:
1. Blessed are the poor in spirit, and so on.
Poor in spirit is the one who humbles himself before God, confessing that he was a sinner, meager in good works, and by itself, without the help of God's grace, a very feeble and not strong in good works.
2 . Blessed are those who mourn.
Those who mourn are those who, like the poor in spirit, confess sins before God and their weaknesses. They complain and whine about their okayanstve, fearful of the future judgment of God, or to themselves angry for having provoked the God. This contrition is sincere sorrow for God and then saving repentance.
3 . Blessed Krotz.
Are the meek are the same as the poor in spirit. They confessed their poverty, humbly stand before God and man, they attribute their well-being is not so, but God, if misfortune happens, do not murmur against God, but in adversity live moderately and thank God. With people they cost condescending authorities obey equal to not despise no less disdain, never ascend and not jealous.
4. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
The truth is of course the one that came to create the Christ - the truth is eternal, perfect through His intercession for us to God the Father, when he has satisfied his death for the sins of the world, and he made the wrath of God in grace. hungering and thirsting for righteousness are those who, being poor in spirit , weeping and gentle, having faith in Christ are looking for the mercy of God, the forgiveness of sins and adoption. They ask, and the fruit of righteousness, that is, the gifts of the Holy Spirit for doing good.
5 . Blessed are the merciful.
Merciful, loving God, loves his neighbor and wish him every good, in necessities helps in disasters intrudes, bewildered and instructs him to forgive sins, hath made against him. The cases are the mercy of two kinds: physical and spiritual. To bodily include: the hungry, give the estate is of the righteous, drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, and comfort, not to give way to despair, to visit the infirm, take a stranger's house and bury the dead. Spirituality is the essence of the following: exhort anyone that he was living legally and hated sin, to teach the ignorant knowledge of God, to advise the truth, pray to God for his neighbor, patiently endure reproach and to forgive sins sinned before us.
6. Blessed are the pure in heart.
The pure in heart - those that are straightforward and simple-hearted Christians, and who carefully keep yourselves in the love of God and neighbor. This includes physical and spiritual virginity, to comply with the strength of God, given to the best of pleasing God. It is not true that celibacy, which, though it does not have a solid mix, but inside fornication assent.
7 . Blessed are the peacemakers.
Peacemaker is one who his brethren, an angry disagreement and hostility between them leads to peace, harmony and love. And, behold, I must say that the one who advises the world, contrary to God's law, such okayanen peacemaker, not blessed.
8 . Blessed are the persecuted for righteousness' sake - and
9. Blessed are ye, when thou revile you, and izhdenut, and shall say all evil verb lzhusche for you, for My sake.
Those who are persecuted and defamed the essence of those who are for the truth, that is, the word of the gospel of Christ, people are suffering from all kinds of evil, exile, reproach, bonds, prison, flour and even death itself. Such suffering for the truth is a great testimony of love for God, for how can the love of God is not one who is even willing to suffer for His righteousness? Of those virtues for which the promised bliss, you think so, first, that good works are so closely linked together that one without the other can not be, and who wants to have one virtue, he will have all the other, and who scanty one will lose, and all other, then he should still believe that doeth good works will not only have eternal bliss in heaven, but there will be prosperity, to receive God's favor, and in this life time benefit.
About Love
Love is a virtue, affects the soul from God. We love it for the sake of God Himself, and the neighbor for God's sake. It is manifested in the performance of the Decalogue, that is God's command, consisting of the ten commandments and teaches through Moses on Mount Sinai, to every man can know the will of God, and that is contrary to Him. It pleased God is good, or virtue, and disgusted him evil or sin. So, this is His commandment, or commandments, command: other - do good, how pleasing to God, and others prohibit doing evil things, as contrary to Him.
Virtue is the fruit that is born of faith, or, in other words: good deeds are to carry out the commandments of God, made with the help of God, with the assistance of the human mind and of your own free will of the person that is born from the love of God and neighbor.
Virtue is divided as follows: all good in general is a virtue, but the first and most essential, without which it is impossible to escape, are as follows: verab, hope and love.
God pleasant these virtues, rising from the faith, through hope in love: prayer, which is gratitude, pleading and slavoslovyaschey God, fasting, as defined and temporarily installed, and finally the charity. From these virtues are born wisdom, truth, courage, and chastity, and purity.
Sin is the same unbridled desire of man and the devil, or, in other words, sin is lawlessness, that is a crime of God's law.
Sin is twofold: mortal and not mortal. Death is different, as the forefathers or arbitrary, random, in turn, divided into three groups. The first group includes those who are born from a variety of sins, and those are the seven:
1.Pride. From it are born: an evil opinion of near, condemnation, disobedience of the Church and its ministers, dreamy self-glorification, the hypocrisy, the passion for logomachy, rage, sedition, puffy opinion, neglect of the commandments and stay in evil. Opposite these sins virtue is humility.
2 . Extortion. From it there are: theft, flattery, lies, rebellion, violence, severity, cruelty, inhumanity, envy, distrust, resentment, and other poor people, avarice, theft. They are the opposite of generosity.
3 . Fornication. It generates: the blindness of mind, hatred of the Divine, wickedness, despair, extravagance, laziness and hostility to the neighbor. The opposite purity or chastity.
4. Envy. It manifests itself as hatred, oglagolanie, negligence, seduction and murder, her opposite dobrohotstvo.
5 . Chrevoneistovstvo. From it happen: laziness to piety, sadness, carnal lust, ugly laughter, self-indulgence, neglect of short-range, reproach, love logomachy and barbaric nature. He opposed abstinence.
6 . Rancor. It produces envy, murder, revenge, vanity and folly. Virtue, its opposite, is patience.
7 . Discouragement. It produces relaxation will, slander himself sin, temptation, sadness and mistrust. He opposed wakefulness.
The second group of sins against the Holy Spirit, such an immense hope of sinners against God, despair, resistance will know the truth, and in some there are some sins: envy of the spiritual goods that get nearer to God - stay in your sins and the aged in malice - negligence of repentance even until the end of this life.
The third group includes the sins crying to heaven, and bring on revenge, such as willful killing, hurt widows and orphans, loss of bribes had worked, molestation and ingratitude to parents.
Sin is not mortal. This includes all the sins forgiven. They are numerous, and can not avoid them no one but Christ and the Virgin. They, however, do not deprive us of God's grace and not subjected to eternal death, and only in the case of neglect of repentance, which can be any clean, they shall open the way to the above mortal sin and suggest the human coldness and negligence in the performance of law.
If someone who turned to sin, is an accomplice of such other people's sins, for example, when the spiritual fathers allow their flock to live without self-control, or when left without instruction lord of that servant, a husband a wife, a teacher of the student, the father of her son.
These things have been told about the virtues and sins. Now we should offer something of God's commandments , which is ten and which have been shown in the two tables of stone. The first - the commandments concerning the love of God, and the second concerning the love of one's neighbor.
The first tablet, for the love of God:
1. I am the Lord your God will not you Bozi inii, except for Me.
2 . Do not make yourself an idol, nor vsyakago similarity Elika in heaven mountain on earth Elika Elika bottom and in the waters under the earth, but not worshiped them, either posluzhishi them.
3. Not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day (ie weekly), hedgehog svyatiti his six days you shall do, and sotvorishi them all your business in the day also had seven - Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
The second tablet, for the love of one's neighbor:
5 . Honor thy father and thy mother, but the good tee will live long'll be on the ground.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7 . Do not commit adultery.
8 . Thou shalt not steal.
9. No other poslushestvuy your testimony is false.
10 . Do not covet thy wife iskrennyago not covet thy house blizhnyago nor villages, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor vsyakago his ass, or any thing Elika blizhnyago your essence.
Complying with the grace of God and the Orthodox faith these works in this world, we certainly hope that in the next century, assumes the perfection of love, let us give thanks to Tri-hypostatic God in heaven forever. Amen.