The 20th
of October 2019
On Week 18 at
Pentecost, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel celebrated the Divine Liturgy
in the church of St. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city.
His Eminence was
accompanied by: Priest Sergius Nagorny, Head of the Office of the
Khanty-Mansiysk Diocese; clergyman of the church of st. Matrona of Moscow in
Davao city, Hieromonk Cornelius (Molev), clergyman of the Khanty-Mansiysk
diocese priest Evgeny Chebykin, clergyman of the Khanty-Mansiysk diocese deacon
Anthony Dolgushin.
At the end of
the service, Metropolitan Pavel addressed the audience:
«Dear fathers,
brothers and sisters! Let me from the heart to congratulate you on the holiday
of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Today we heard
in the apostolic reading: “It is good the brethren to be together.”
These words confirm that we have one Lord, we are one family, God has no ethnic
difference, there is no Hellenic, Jew, Russian or Filipino – we are all His
children, and He is our Father. Our task is to treat each other as an image and
likeness of God. And in order to become like the image of God, and this is one
of the main tasks of the Christian life, it is important not only to do good
deeds and be exemplary in life, but it is very important to realize and see
with our spiritual eyes our own sins.
I am very happy to be with you today, performing
the Divine Liturgy, the most important part of the Divine Services, when we
were united in Christ, from the one body and blood of Christ. Let us be united
in prayer, in deeds and in thoughts, and God grant that the Lord give us
strength in carrying our earthly cross. I want to ask for your prayers, I’ll
have a long journey ahead: first to Manila, then through China again to Russia,
and after some time I will come back here again. We know that prayer does not
know the distance, I wish everyone the help of God, I thank everyone again for
common prayers, God bless everyone!»
чрез Китай снова в Россию, и через какое- то время вновь вернутся сюда, к вам. Мы знаем, что молитва не знает расстояний, всем желаю помощи Божией, благодарю всех еще раз за общие молитвы, храни всех Господь!»