calamity is the conversion of mortal sin into
a habit there are no good deeds that could redeem
a soul from hell if before it is separated from the body it is not cleansed of every mortal
sin in the years of the lion emperor his great who 457
474 lived in Constantinople a very glorious and very rich man
who washed generous to the poor but unfortunately from his youth he fell
into the deadly sin of micha in which he continued to fall into
his old age as with time this habit became established in him thus giving
unceasingly alms and committing unceasing micha suddenly died the holy
valiant patriarch of Constantinople at that time
458 471 and the other bishops discussing about him a dichotomy regarding
his posthumous state some said that he had been saved according to the saying of the
scripture the rich man with his wealth can redeem his soul
but others disagreed arguing that a man of God must be
pure and blameless as the scripture also states that whoever keeps all the
ordinances of the divine law and breaks one is considered a transgressor of the whole law
if the righteous one sins based on his good deeds then none of them
will be counted where I find you said god there and I will judge you the patriarch
then ordered all the monasteries and all the ascetics to
pray that the lord would reveal where the soul of that merciful
mochu was and indeed god revealed it to an ascetic who then
narrated the revelation to the patriarch last night as
I was praying I saw a place divided into two
on the right was heaven full of unspeakable goods and on the left a
lake of fire whose flames reached to the clouds between the blessed
heaven and the terrible fire stood bound the dead man already rich and
he groaned heartily often turning his gaze
to heaven he burst into bitter lamentation suddenly I saw a twisted angel
embracing him and to say to him, my man, why,
thanks to your mercy, you escaped the sufferings of hell because you did not
leave the abominable
micha, the patriarch and his synods, hearing this, said with fear, well,
says the apostle Paul, away from fornication, every other sin that
a person can commit is outside his body, but he who commits fornication
defiles the his own body where are those who say that even
if we fall into micha we will be saved by mercy the merciful if he is truly
merciful he should first have mercy on himself and acquire
physical purity without which no one will face the master
silver that is shared with a sinful hand and an
unrepentant soul is of no use saint ignatius snob from the book speech for spirits speech
for
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