Is Melchizedek a man? He was a priest of the Living God. It was a very unusual encounter. He brought bread and wine. He gave it to Abraham, and Abraham, being himself a prince of God, a prophet, a friend of God, accepted it and gave him a tenth of everything he had.
Today we are talking about the sin of Onan, about so-called "family planning", because this lawlessness has penetrated the ranks of the church of Christ.
I am not a supporter of people who hinder childbirth. If you are able to conceive and give birth to children, why don't you give birth? If you're old, it's understandable. But some brothers and sisters terminate the pregnancy, they contrive things, as they only want one child.
Today we can present human thoughts, bragging about the things we do for Him. But His thoughts are not our thoughts. As heaven differs from earth, so His thoughts differ from ours. As the west differs from the east, so His words differ from ours.
Who doesn’t love his flesh? We may not like our physique and certain processes in the body - aging, excessive thinness or fatness. But whatever it may be we protect the body - we nourish it and cherish it. We dress warmly and want to eat better.
The Lord wants to change our clothes today. A bride and a bridegroom put on new clothes. Indeed, it will be so: now, after marriage, they will never be the same.
It is impossible to tolerate "death" in a Holy Place. What are the goals of your community? The Church must bear the dimension - the advantage of spiritual life over material. She must bring spirituality into this world with material thinking. The Church must emanate the spiritual realm out of herself .
A cheerful heart is beneficial. People with cheerful hearts do good. They leave good footprints on the earth, they act for good. They leave a good influence. It is difficult to imagine a scoundrel who has a cheerful heart.
