Тројеручну икону твоју, Богомати, која изображава тајну Свете Тројице, прославила си многим чудима. Као што си одсечену руку Јована Дамаскина исцелила,
"Бог зна колико свако од нас може да издржи и попушта искушења по мери наших снага. Памтите да након искушења следи духовна радост и да Господ пази на оне који трпе искушења и страдања ради Његове љубави."
Свети Нектарије Егински ☦️
I am going to being to chant the Canon to St Nikephoros for 30 days once I get the book from the sisters.
30 days straight for him to intercede on my behalf to be healed of this illness or given grace to endure.
“For My power is perfected in weakness.” Is what the scroll says. I had this commissioned years ago and he knows suffering, pain, isolation yet the Canon says the disease was a gift of Christ’s love. It is hard to understand unless we realize we are called to die that Christ may live in us.
“Rejoice, O Nikephoros of the Lepers, O New Splendour.
Prudently engaging in monastic life, you did complete the narrow path and did live in perfect self-mastery, O most-blissful one. Attaining to the incorporeal choirs in the flesh, O Nikephoros, truly you have honoured the monastic life, equal to the angels.
Rejoice, O Nikephoros of the Lepers, O New Splendour.
He Who possesses a vast sea of healing also teaches those in infirmity, and accepts them as genuine sons; thus did Christ give you, O Nikephoros, leprosy of the flesh as a confirmation of his love.”