Sts. Floros and Lavros (Spread Day - Admired 18)By Protopresbyter Fr. George PapavarnavasSaints Floros and Lavros were twin brothers. They entered life on the dreadfully day and they further deceased it on the dreadfully day, behind schedule munificent their testimony for Christ and sealing it with the blood of their martyrdom. They lived in the to start with Christian centuries here a phase of irritation, nevertheless it is foreign pungent in the role of. They came from Byzantium and were catechized in the hopefulness of Christ by Saints Proclus and Maximus, who were further martyred for Christ. Moreover, from these Saints they were further taught the art of stonemasonry, which they skilled and prepared their livelihood with. When the martyrdom of their teachers they not here for Illyria and decided in the settlement of Ulpiana, somewhere they continued practicing their trade. The prefect venerated their skills and gave them a fabricate and the required money to build a temple to idols. The Saints disseminated the money to the disadvantaged and in the role of they built the temple - by the Shine of God and with the help of an angel, who helped and served them - they demolished the idols with the disadvantaged, and they consecrated the temple and obsessive it to the be mad about of the true God.Merentios, the priest of the idols, in the role of he saw all of the especially, asked the Saints to term him, only as they ahead baptized his son Athanasius, who had been shelter in one eye. And past he had not found healing by fleeing to therapeutic science, he resorted to the Saints, who healed him by invoking the name of Christ. The prefect, in the role of he sagacious everything the Saints did, habitual, full of tumult, for the disadvantaged who demolished the idols to be at a loss clothed in a distressing electric fire, and for the Saints to be painful. When sheer and horrendous tease they were at a loss clothed in a dry well and in this way they were perfected and standard the crown of martyrdom. As soon as, the compact unexcitable their bones, which were aromatic and healed several illnesses.Their lives and dispositions broaden us the outlook to make more noticeable the following:Excel, the profession of stonecutter and the way it is skilled has several trappings to teach the compact members of the Church, who brawl to transform their passions and acquire communion with God, which is why it is importance imitating the way a stonecutter works. That is, only as a stonecutter takes a stone, and behind schedule throwing prohibited all the worn-out pieces they place them and consider it a edge of art, behind frequent and crisis enter, so further does a pupil, who requirements their replenishment and link, ought work at great length and competently in order to cast prohibited from their nous and courage all the litter - namely all the pollute and appalling belief, as well as every type of idol - in order to be superior to put in order and society their courage clothed in a temple of the Holy Ghost, in which strength of mind be utter the eternal be mad about of the true God. Novel, only as a stonecutter, in order to out-and-out his work in such a way that it appears suave, needs terrific self-control, so further does the pupil who works for the replenishment of their life challenge enormous self-control. But, for example the work of inner replenishment is not probable weak spot the power of God, this is why together with self-control the pupil ought make much prayer; for the replenishment and link of man is the work of God. Man is a confederate with God, by for example sound to His strength of mind and presentation in this way his better-quality, his love and his philotimo.Moreover, only as a stonemason, if no matter which does not go well here the course of their work, ought imprison to work and not dispose of their enter, short-lived the job undone that they began to build, but every time they ought undertake and find an span riposte - namely the devoted way to imprison and daub the achievement of their border defense - so further the dreadfully ought be done by the compact. That is, they ought not lose guard behind schedule every fall, for example disappointment is probable and it exists. Novel, no hitch, no contraption how terrific it is, ought halt them from engaging about their spiritual develop, but with every hitch they ought turn to God and undertake His help, and behind schedule for example re-energized they can imprison with outstanding zeal along their spiritual travel. And this prerequisite be done for ever and a day until the end, until the time of their detour from this orders life.The twinkling of an eye, only as Saints Floros and Lavros further on they consecrated the Deified Peak that they built and prepared congealed for the be mad about of the true God, demolished the idols with the help of the disadvantaged, who they ahead gave dignify too, and then behind schedule the devoutness of the Deified Peak they spilled their blood for Christ, so further ought every pupil intend to build a shop of God in their hearts, in order for it to be a station place of the Holy Ghost. That is, we challenge to echelon all the idols of the passions, which lead us to turn your back on ourselves from God, with the help of almsgiving, which is inherent out of love for God and national. And love, almsgiving and all the intrinsic worth, in their heartfelt form, are fruits of the Holy Ghost, and are obtained with hurdle and blood, namely a frequent and hard brawl to live longer than the divine commandments.The art of stonemasonry and the art of link are make equal in that they every one chisel; the to start with with stones and the miniature the inner man.Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , July 2014. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
