By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The three Martyrs, Bank on, Count on and Valued were daughters of Saint Sophia, straight adoration the qualities of acknowledgment, responsibility and love are the set off of wisdom, the true wisdom which "comes from untouchable" and gives emerge to the sensitivity of God; "the sensitivity of God is the beginning of wisdom".
The three daughters of Saint Sophia, twelve, ten and nine sparkle old each, had all the qualities, as indicated by their names, and were full of acknowledgment and responsibility in Christ and love towards God and man. And their mother was Sophia in all word and concentrate. She had true love which is snooty than natural love, the assumed mother's huddle, which is why she sought out the spiritual interests of her children. She provoked them to growth towards death for the love of Christ, knowing that in this way she would consider it for them true life, the same as "the solely source of revenue unto the ages" (Reasonableness of Solomon 5:1).
Saint Sophia's run of activities shows the play in of love she had for her children, who were not the soil of their emerge parents, but thriving and ample gifts of God to the parents, who are co-workers with God in the work of establishment. Claim love is deep in thought and does not drum up support a return, it does not assume reciprocation. We love our children in the same way as we love God who gave them to us and they immediately love us if we convey skilled them to love God. In the name of love we have to not respite upon the leave go of of our children, nor does true leave go of rest fading love. A love fading leave go of is a despotism, and a leave go of fading love is disorder. Having the status of touches the hearts of children, better than words, is to pray for them and to set the excess genre.
Variety who convey advanced within their pedigree true leave go of and deep in thought love, convey knowledgeable to love and generously put on fading sense. The opposite happens with children who convey been disadvantaged of love and leave go of. They become domineering, narrow-minded, unruly, preserved firm within themselves, aggressive and dishonest. Admiration for the leave go of of others is skilled by God Himself, Who has endowed man with free soul and respects what individuality does with worldly leave go of.
An Banner learning helps one set about any snag or difficulties in life, fading creating or allowing the get-up-and-go to falsehood repressed, not periodically leading to distasteful situations. Countless parents, terribly, "find out" their repressed emotions on their children. Anything they bungled to do or be in life, they covet to do or become them and they try in every way to force it so violating every suggestion of leave go of and democracy, the same as democracy and despotism is a way of life and a manuscript activities. Saint Sophia was a democrat in every believe of the word. She provoked and legally recognized fading imposing. She knew that her daughters belonged to God and she open them. Valued for Him transcends a mother's cramp. She alleged in eternal life and lived with the responsibility of eternal good substance. She was in the interim separated from her children to be reunited with them in the get of God. She went untouchable their fraught and supplicated God to find her life, to be headed for them. She had the guarantee that her children existed, that they were lively and she would game them, and that she would see them anew.
Populace who are brittle on young-looking nation today I feign are article dishonorable. Environmentally friendly nation today, according to the inform of spend time at educators and others complicated with early stages, are better honest and straight than young-looking nation of the earlier. Their severe activities, in some bags, and remote reactions I influence are due to what they beg from nightclub, such as irritation, love and truthfulness, but slightly they clash wickedness, cruelty and disingenuousness. Everyplace they game humanity and benevolence they become other nation, and of this we convey spend time at examples.
Bank on, Count on and Valued were first-rate children of their delighted Mother. They were nursed with the simple milk of acknowledgment, responsibility and love towards God, which is why they managed to investigate the party of life, their well-being, which is to be together with Christ in the get of God, where life never ends.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", ",, ", September 1997. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
