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CONFESS OF FAITH
“If someone does not accept any ecclesiastical
tradition that is written on or not, Anathema,
Anathema, Anathema. We keep the dogmas
and the traditions of the One, Holy, Catholic
and Apostolic Church, and those innovators
who innovate the faith and every heresy we
anathematize”.
CHURCH
OF THE GENUINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS
CALENDAR 2016
DEDICATED TO THE DIVINE
ORDINANCE OF THE HOLY FAST
THE MEMBERS
THEY INNOVATE
EVEN THE HOLY FAST
69 CANON
"Like pelican
your side
wounding, you
God Word, your
deceased
children you
vivified,
dripping to them
your vital
hydrants".
(2nd Stasis of
Eulogy of the Holy
Epitaph on the
Great Friday)
TO EVERYONE OF THE CHILDRENS
OF THE MOST HOLY MOTHER CHURCH
You revered priests, you monastic orders of the Church, you
pious Faithful, beloved kids by the Lord!
Grace, peace and blessings of God and our Savior Jesus Christ
to all of you in the new year 1986 on the part of the Holy Synod
and Our wish and blessing, so more to love the angelic virtue of
fasting, whereby the earthly man acquires angelic state and
becomes heavenly man.
Beloved children. Whatever was received and adopted by our
Mother Church stems from the words and deeds of the Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. And the holy institution of Fasting
was not delivered only to the Protoplasts and not only Moses
and Elijah fasted 40 days or the Professor of desert, Holy
Forerunner, throughout his life, but especially He fasted, who
did not need fasting, the God-man Jesus, our Lord.
Behold, beloved children in the Lord, although the institution of
Fasting ripped from Adam, the divine institution of fasting is
kept and delivered to the Church by the new Adam, our Lord
Jesus Christ, Who Himself and the media leaves His Church
after first He fasted forty days and nights. Before teaching his
disciples, that "this genus (of demons) does not come out except
by prayer and fasting" He fasted and defeated the triple Lord's
temptation in the Mount of Jericho which was led "by the
Spirit" after the Baptism in the Jordan.
In the first temptation, the devil says to the Lord, Who had
already fasted 40 days: If you are really the son of God, as I
heard in the Jordan, tell these stones become bread.
The Lord defeated this temptation by answering: Man does not
live only by eating bread, but by every Word of God, which will
come out of the mouth of God.
In the second temptation, as we are taught by the Evangelist
Luke, the devil brought the Lord in the upper part of the roof of
the temple and said to him: If you are really the Son of God,
throw down yourself as says the psalm, God will instruct Angels
to run to keep you on their hands, so that you will not hurt. The
Lord answered: You will not present a risk to yourself to try
(the power of God) so if the Lord protect you, and won the
second temptation.
Then the devil goes to the third temptation. He upconverts the
Lord to a towering mountain and from there shows him all the
kingdoms of the earth and the glory. All this will be your gifts,
he says, if you fall down and worship me as your Lord. In this
word of the tempter, the Lord replied: "Go behind me Satan, it
is written in the Old Testament, "and only the Lord your God
will kneel and worship."
Then the devil ashamed "crimped" to go away and behold
angels came and serve the Lord.
INTERPRETATIVE PERFORMANCE: Then Jesus was led by
the Holy Spirit to a higher part of the desert, to suffer
temptation as a man from the devil (and to defeat him entirely).
And he fasted forty consecutive days and nights, then (as man)
he starved. Then the devil, who has the task to mind people,
approached stealthily and said, "If you are the Son of God (as
the voice was heard from heaven in the Jordan to say), do a
miracle, say to become these stone to loaves, to eat. "Then the
devil (after the triple defeat) left Jesus and behold the angels of
God came close to Jesus and served him as a winner.
The imitators of the first Adam, behold today are earthy and
seek the abolition of fasting, and the true Fasters are heavenly
people and defeating the complex machinery of the devil.
Becoming imitators thus the Lord, let your love for the holy
fasting as it was loved by the Holy Apostles and the Holy
Fathers and as it is analyzed and presented in the pages of this
calendar and we always hear the words of the Lord: The genus
that does not emanate, but only with prayer and FASTING. "
God having created the first man, He put him in the gladness
Paradise to work it and to guard. At the same time he instructed
Adam to benefit from the fruits of all the trees and only not to
eat from the fruit of a tree. If he breached this command, from
that day would lose his immortality and become longer mortal.
And the Lord God commanded the man , "You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden ; but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
you shall die. (Genesis II 16- 17)
With this fasting Adam would remain immortal and with the
work of virtue, he would repay the purpose for which God
created him. He would be like God, he would become God by
grace.
That was the good of fasting that God ordained the first man.
The offense of fasting from protoplasts claimed not only the loss
of that Paradise, but also all the Divine gifts with which God
endowed the first man, and created him as "image and
likeness" (GEN. A' 26). Particularly it claimed the breach of
fasting, the death.
But the result of ablation of the first and the holy order, what
was it? What the devil did he say? Not of course, but as St. Paul
says (Rom. 5 Ch. 12)
Not only that, but the Fast is already requested from the Old
Testament, to be accompanied with prayer and to keep pace
with the virtues of charity and justice: (Tobit XII, 8).
Large Faster was the Prophet Moses! The divine man has
established himself to talk face to face with God at Mount
Sinai, after "he whacked himself with forty-days fast"
"Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights
without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the
tablets the words of the covenant; the Ten Commandments".
(Exodus Chapter 34', 28)
The Lord, having no need for fasting, fasted forty days and
forty nights to let us eternal standard of fasting and to teach
that the believer is driven to fast, driven by the Grace of the
Holy Spirit, so that through this to strengthen, as a spiritual
person, and to be able to progress in spiritual struggles, to
defeat the opposing party of devil and to have next to the
struggle of spiritual perfection the Holy Angels.
The Lord in this case by fasting himself forty days, not only
He bestows holy Fast, but also He perfects and gives the true
meaning of fasting.
Both Prophets Moses and Elijah, fasted forty days, but the 40-
days fast of Lord is the mention directly and immediately to
the disobedience of Adam and the violation of the fast with all
those consequences.
The fast of Lord (as human) left the gold standard of fasting.
If the Lord (humanly) fasted before his work, He won the
triple temptation by fasting and prayer, wanted to teach us by
his own example of preparing us in fasting and prayer for any
major project.
The Saint Basil the Great emphasizes that the Lord, the flesh
which hired for us, strengthened with the Fasting and thus
faced the attacks of the devil. He teaches us to do the same.
(About Fasting I' 9 PG, 31, 177).
St. John Chrysostom says again that the Lord endured forty
days of fasting, so he fought with the devil, leaving us all
underscore that we chaste by fasting to take this power and
thus we arrayed in the fight against the evil (Speech at Birth
10', 3 PG 53, 24).
Not only the Lord but also the Apostles were fasting at certain
times, as evidenced by the Acts of the Apostles (AA, 9).
Indeed, the Apostle Paul expressly states that in the Apostolic
period fasts were arranged: "I served, he says the Lord with
trouble and toil ... with fasting often" (II Corinthians XI 27).
St. John Chrysostom observes that Apostle Paul fasted when
he was in particular need of divine help. His hard Apostolic
work, which constantly was in need of divine assistance, did
the Apostle Paul to fasts several times.
Finally the 69th Apostolic Rule defines Fasts for all Christians
on Wednesday and on Friday and at the Holy Lent.
Generally, the view and the teaching of the Fathers on the Holy
Fasting is based entirely on the meaning and the significance of
the 40-day fasting of our Lord.
The hymn especially calls as the mother of all those who claimed
to worship sincerely the Despot Christ. It's true mother the
fasting, since this leads to the necrosis of the earthy man and to
the rebirth of the new, the spiritual, the heavenly man.
PARISHES OF U.S.A.
PARISH OF CANADA
FAST ΟΝ EVERYTHING
January 4, August 29, September 14 and December 24.
Also we do not eat at feasts on the Clean Week or the
Great one.
FISH IS PERMITTED
January 7. February 2. March 25. June 24, 29. August 6,
15. September 8. November 14, 21. On the Wednesday
of the Mid- Pentecoste. On the Wednesday of the
Apodosis of the Pascha (Easter).