christ is risen dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the memory of the great educators of the slavic peoples, saints cyril equal-to-the-apostles, teachers of slovenia, it is difficult to overestimate their feat and its significance for the inhabitants of the slavic lands. in the secular world, emphasis is often placed on the fact that the most important result of the work of this brothers is the abc and the writing that they gave to the slavs. but in fact , the main goal of their feat was the preaching of the gospel, which they diligently fulfilled the

greatest commandment and love for god and neighbor the holy brothers understood that christ's teaching is addressed to all peoples, it is difficult for them to preach to literate people. thanks to cyril methodius, the slavs received not only the gospel and divine services in their native language, but also the opportunity to read byzantine books. in itself, the work of spiritual education enlightenment of other people is very difficult, but with this, cyril and methodius, in addition to it, suffered many hardships, deprivations and even persecution at times for their selfless work for the sake of an unenlightened people, they turned out to be diseases and conclusions. who were saints cyril and methodius before taking the monastic vows, they

bore the names of constantine and michael, two siblings had more differences than similarities michael the eldest of the seven sons constantine the younger michael strong and courageous constantine sickly, he was very fond of the teachings of book wisdom, despite the difference in age character brothers parallel to each other true christian love, and their deeds have always tried to be honest before god and people. mikhail smolov achieve great heights in military affairs, but purely and serving god attracted him more earthly honors, therefore, after ten years of ruling one of the byzantine provinces. he retired to a monastery on mount olympus minor , where he took monastic tonsure with the name of methodius

, while constantine followed the path of a scientist, mastered science in constantinople under the guidance of the most respected teachers, studied many languages, including the slavic talent for learning allowed constantine to be under the byzantine emperor himself and be the teacher of the future imperial heir michael the holy brothers began to tie up together in the work of preaching the christian faith; the most important and most difficult of their work was the preaching of the gospel of great moravia. for this, they had to create a new alphabet, which then formed the basis of all slavic writing. language that was understood by the local people. people were able to pray

and read the holy scriptures in their native language. not everyone understood the importance of the enlightenment and translations of books into slavic, so preachers were often persecuted both by the latin clergy and by the rulers. this finally undermined the weak. the health of konstantin, who had gone to the lord shortly before, was under his monastic vows with the name cyril , even during his earthly life, konstantin spoke to his brother. you and i are like two shafts from a heavy burden, one has fallen, the other must continue on its way. and methodius, in fulfillment of this testament, until his death in 885, diligently continued the ministry that the brothers began together today on the day of remembrance of the saints

methodius cyril church reminds us that the preaching of the gospel continues. this means that today the ministry of methodius cyril is our ministry with this brothers created the slavic alphabet. they translated the biblical and liturgical books, but time has passed and today the eternal and unchanged in content truth about the risen christ sometimes requires new forms of its preaching. the world around is changing very rapidly and it becomes more and more difficult for a modern person to hear the gospel message if there is no preacher nearby. able to speak in an understandable language. once upon a time, saints methodius cyril opened the doors to the church of christ for our ancestors, but why should they properly praise god and know the essence of the christian faith. surprisingly, today is the age

of information technology and the universal availability of knowledge. there are people who, like the ancient slavs, do not know anything about christ, if we glorify the feat of early lenten methodius and cyril, who became part of his church, but we ourselves are inactive, then is our glorification right? the task is to create a new alphabet or to translate holy scripture into some new language, but even in the time of the holy brothers, the slavic alphabet and the translation of sacred books had prices, not by themselves. they were tools. sermons of christ's teachings. today, as at all times for every christian, the preaching of the gospel is an important duty, when we

look at the lives of the holy ascetics, we see that a real christian preaches christ not so much with words. how many godly example of his life? and such preaching is accessible to each of us, if our example of life, the behavior of the attitude to the prevailing circumstances, the people around us attract others to pay attention to spiritual things, then such our ministry continues the great work of saints methodius and cyril equal to the apostles it is our turn, and we who live on this earth today are called to further multiply the fruits of the labors of early lenten educators. how can we be

worthy followers of the work of the saints brothers, in fact, much is not required for this, but with quite diligence we must do what is passive to us in our circumstances, first, it is worthy about our own life. after all, those with this brother tells us that, before taking up the work of creating the abc of translating books. for 40 days they stayed in fasting and prayer, thus, mental work was preceded by work of spiritual personal prayer feat. this truth is very important today, because many people strive for knowledge, but not everyone understands that the received knowledge imposes moral and spiritual responsibility on a person before god and surrounding people. secondly, this is the knowledge of their faith by many, believers focus

only on the spiritual feat, fasting, prayer , participation in the sacraments unconditionally. this is very important, but it is very easy for the unspiritual literacy of knowledge of christian truths and understanding of church tradition to exceed its limit and deviate on the wrong path. dear brothers and sisters. may the lord, the prayer of the heights of cyril equal-to-the-apostles, enlighten our hearts, and he, so that we and the heart heart and spiritual knowledge not only accomplished the salvation of their own souls. we worthily testified about christ surrounding people with a feast.

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