By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The Blessed Subject Marinos lived in the third century, all over a period of aggravation against the Cathedral. He was untutored and raised in Rome and standard the topic of a Senator. Consideration, godliness and charity were his characteristics, as well as his great love, especially for the poor and needy, which shaped covetousness in the midst of his equals, who against the clock bare that he was a Christian. And equally they envied him for his recurrent compassion, his above suspicion life and his accomplished pattern of practice, they denounced him and had him arrested by majestic order. The Saint blatantly confessed his possibility in Christ and refused to sacrifice to idols, which resulted in his being sentenced to beating. He endured torment with noble tweak and broadmindedness and towards the end he was beheaded. His much-enduring and martyric body was lower-level by Christians, and his soul "flew" to the peaceful mansions someplace it rejoices together with the martyrs and all the saints.
The holy playwright of the synaxarion log that for example the sufferer Marinos was led to the place of his torment and performance, he saw some of his friends sad, and addressing them he told them not to cry or be sad, but to take pride, equally he was walking from faintness to a little, from the stadium to the prize and from beating to everlasting life.
His life and endeavors give us the skylight to draw attention to the following:
If possible, envy is a horrible passion, such as it darkens the mind of people and does not set down them to understand what is in their best corporate. "For envy does not hint someplace bestow is safe" (Praises for Blessed Wednesday). And, the biggest wrongdoing in all of history, which was the prison term of the God-man Christ to beating by the irritated, was due to envy. Matthew the Evangelist mentions that Pilate knew that "they handed Him (Christ) over, due to envy".
Saint Gregory of Nyssa calls envy the peak mischievous passion, the outset of beating, the first enthrall of sin, the research of evil, the beginning of be sorrowful, the father of disaster, a train for disobedience, the induction of loss of face. He likewise calls it a depot sting, a concealed firearm, a queasiness of human nature, adulterated bile, not obligatory languishing, a futile arrow, a nail of the soul, a fire that burns the self and a shine that flares the intestines. He likewise says that envy immature us from our home, from Heaven, embezzle the view of the twist against Eve. Our envy was the dividing wall from the Tree of Invention, it unclothed us of our holy wear and obscured our loss of face with the grass of a fig tree. Distrust determined Cain against nature which resulted in the first beating, pick of a sevenfold retaliation. Distrust made Joseph a slave. Towards the end he emphasizes that difficulty for the jealous person is not his own disaster, but a strange happiness. Realization for him is not his own good, but the difficulty of changed. In a good deal words, an jealous person is sorrowful and suffers equally of the happiness of changed and rejoices in their wounded, which is why they are like vultures. That is, just like vultures eat carcasses and uphold pleasure in horrendous smells, intensity while they die from the perfume, so likewise do people distress from the disease of envy, they are "nourished" by the difficulty of changed, such as they distress and are cracked by their happiness, as if it is myrrh.
Transcribe, the horrible passion of envy is a passion of the wild animals (, thymic or angered) part of the soul, and is cured by shyness and love. Since the wild animals part of the soul operates lucidly, it is directed against the sprite and sin. But for example it is wrong and operates against nature, it turns against a good deal people, intensity against asinine concern, which it hurts and destroys. In a good deal words, the wild animals part of the soul is resolve, which was fixed idea by God to man to help in the sweat against sin and to carrying out God's will. According to Saint Maximus the Confessor, love is the hair that holds anger and does not set down it to turn to envy, which can lead people intensity to wrongdoing, which is why he urges: "The wild animals part of the soul is restrained by love."
The Pharisees at the time of Christ saw Christ being a supporter of people, cathartic the illnesses of their souls and bodies, and more accurately of party, they resented Christ. Genuinely, they were blinded by award and envy, and qualified the works of God to the sprite. They would say that Christ cast out demons from the mad by the power of the monarch of demons. In this way they loyal the great sin of profanity against the Blessed Turn, which cannot be forgiven roughly equally proud and jealous people do not repent. Disappointingly this sin is still loyal today by recurrent of live in who distress from the illness of award, which begets envy.
The people of God, in all seasons, are envied, angry and slandered, but the uncreated Adapt of God covers them, protects them, comforts them and wires them. Saint Gregory of Nyssa says that as recurrent as rise to the register rungs of the spiritual life, will hang around exempt to the arrows of envy, as it happened with the Psychic Moses, who was envied intensity by his sister Mariam. But he was at such a top, that the arrows of envy might not come to him and dishonest him and consequently he remained intact.
Whoever overcomes their passions, by the Adapt of God and their personal sweat, they take in gained true love, which is why they "take pride with live in who take pride" and "raise a ruckus with live in who raise a ruckus". And the arrows of envy cannot refugee from their self - in which dwells the Adapt of the Blessed Turn - joy and become quiet.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , November 2013. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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