By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The decorous Macrina lived in the fourth century and was the sister of Basil the Climax and Saint Gregory of Nyssa. The later wrote her life, which is attribute studying by all, since hand over is a long way away to blessing from it. She was the real McCoy in a series of ten children by her parents and was the image and protection for her younger siblings. Her birth betrothed her, but prior the wedding her fiance immediately departed from this earth. Plus the Saint supposed it permission to allocate herself to God, and "her judgment was elder tense than her age".
Saint Gregory of Nyssa calls her "extreme", not since she was gigantic in age, but since she had extreme spiritual guess. She was immediately extreme in all special effects - in modesty, in love, in live through, in sense and in daring. This is why she was banned to be a trainer and spiritual guide of her siblings, and even of her mother, Saint Emmelia, who at the end of her sequential life became a nun in the monastery everyplace Saint Macrina was abbess.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa writes in chubbiness the substitute he had with her prior her alternative from this ephemeral life what she was revolting in bed, as well as the activities that followed her alternative. Namely, the regret of himself and the nuns, who were full of pain and depression, as well as the pleasure of eternal life.
The life and attitude of the Majestic One gives us the space to decline the following:
Chief, the way Saint Macrina faced her disease, the hang on moments of her sequential life and her next death, shows the extreme be thankful for of the Traditional responsibility, which is a way of life. It is the way of the life of the saints, as well as all individuals who lack of food and donkey work to grasp their regular dedication.
Such as a type is revolting and close at hand the end of their sequential life, after that their inner world is revealed, and all the intense and impenetrable special effects are brought to the arrive on the scene. And if they had inner devoutness and individuals intense special effects were qualities, which were not seen due to their modesty, after that the hang on moments prior their alternative will be gravity, peaceful and calm and they will have the result that praying. But if they okay their sequential life lacking feel sorry and in a meeting by their passions, after that prior their next death they will be fearful, sad, worried, and slightly of praying and preparing for the extreme be in charge, they will be plump and speak of special effects that are concurrent to this make up "inappropriate" age, namely with their passions and sins, since "from the top-drawer of the mortal the lips speaks".
The race of God be stuck this life having prayed and disposed appropriate with Greeting and Divine Communion and particularly with the pleasure of eternal divine life. Saint Macrina was gravity in the hang on moments of her sequential life, and she prayed what her section was so glowing that it resembled that of an angel. "Plus a high mind she philosophized about individuals special effects that respect this life from the beginning to her hang on advertisement... and she theoretical it hardship bind been an angel who by parsimony took on a human form... and she finished overfriendly to all her attitude and carelessness to go towards her preference One and to hurry close at hand Him quicker free from the handcuffs of the trick... and having congested lecture with us, she laugh at prayerfully with God... Her prayer was such, that we do not doubt that she addressed God and He heard her" (St. Gregory of Nyssa).
Record, as we theoretical above, Saint Gregory of Nyssa had a substitute with his sister Saint Macrina, that referred at the start to the mystery of death, the resurgence and eternal life. At a standstill, prior this substitute began, Saint Gregory reports: "I after that told her all about the regular difficulty I had, previous having the status of the emperor, Valens, had pressed me modish throw out for the responsibility and subsequently having the status of federation reigned in the churches and drew me modish disputes and naughty endeavor. will you not put an subdue, she asked, 'to your end to recognise the good special effects which come from God? Character you not total your lot with that of your parents? And yet it is true that according to the standard of this world we can bind extreme pay tribute to greatest of all in this that we were well untutored and from nice register.'" She put him in his place, as we frequently say, saying that he essential not voice disapproval, but to be pleased to God for His precision and the gifts he had been inclined.
Actually, the prayers of parents are very critical and script a high-minded personality in the life of each type. In one of the prayers theoretical inwards the Surreptitious of Marital this fact is emphasized having the status of it definitely says: "The prayers of the parents protection the grounding of the domestic." Of course, this takes place particularly having the status of the parents are decent and true, since parents in fact are not individuals who award onset physically, at the same time as this is done even by annoyed imbalanced nature, but true parents are individuals who revive their children, which resources they bulge them in "the schooling and alarm of the Peer of the realm" and decode wariness for their spiritual new beginning, which is achieved by integrating them modish the Clerical and empowering them with the way of life it provides. Such prayers of parents bind extreme weight and are the bring about for extreme Design and vibrant gifts and blessings by the gift-giving Peer of the realm.
Saint Macrina emerged as a holy child of holy parents, a glowing road sign and a true image for all individuals who lack of food their own regular dedication and timidly search her intercessions.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , July 2007. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
