Do Not Close The Door Of Our Master!

Theodoret tells us the story of two heroes, who knew the concept of true heroism.

Bishop Ambrose heard of the proclamation issued by Emperor Theodosius, and knew that his victim would shed innocent blood. In the wisdom of the bishop entered into the temple of the Lord, he sought his counsel. Raising his eyes to God as if his tongue says:

"Who can stand before the emperor in the whole world?

But I say with the prophet Jeremiah that a fire has been caught in my bones that I can not fast.

In power David said, I will speak before the kings, and I will not be ashamed.

Then to prevent him from entering the divine sanctuary, even if the price of my whole life on this earth. "

 Bishop Ambrose met with Father Rufinius, who was proud of the Emperor, and said quietly to him: "If the emperor had told him that his decision was to shed innocent blood, he would tell him that even if he was justified by people, God would not justify it. ! "

Rufinius is very troubled, and faster to the emperor informing him the words of the bishop before the disaster, he knows what the emperor of the Sultan and the bishop of packs.

 The Emperor had already moved from his palace to the cathedral, and listening to Rufinus did not retreat, but set off on his way.

The bishop saw him coming, and bravely rebuked the Emperor for his creeping decision. The bishop expected the emperor's revolution and hastened to sentence him, but the surprise that the Emperor in humility told the bishop:

"I have not come to break laws,

I do not enter the sanctuaries forcibly,

I have come to you to relieve me of my strength.

Do not close the door of our master who opens it before all those who come repentance. "

"How can I solve it and your hasty decision sheds innocent blood? ...

 If you want to make an order to postpone your decision this month until you look at Petro, and exercise justice.

 It is worth dying to limp, but not shed innocent blood.

I have no objection, I will check it in a month, I was quick to issue the publication. "

 Then the bishop allowed the emperor to enter the church of God. As the historian of Theodoret says, when the emperor entered the church, he did not stand to pray in front of his god, nor kneel down, but he lay down on the ground and did not care about those around him. He cried out in the words of David the prophet: St - Takla.org In other sections.

The Emperor was wrong and almost shed innocent blood!

Did not care about the dignity of his position or his authority,

But in the spirit of humility open the doors of your mercy.

The Bishop did not know about his packages,

But he blamed himself for her evil.

Attracted my insight to the depths of myself,

He is not busy with temporal authority,

But by declaring your kingdom in,

I confess to you my sins,

Trust in the wealth of your many mercies.

Give me the heart of Bishop Ambrose,

I do not care about my time,

But the salvation of my soul and the salvation of my brothers.

I love you.

I will not ask for human satisfaction!

The Reality Of Happiness

It is said that a merchant sent his son Ki when the wisest man in the world to teach him the secret of happiness, the boy walked a very long distance, and after forty days arrived at the palace Bahi built on the top of a high mountain, people told him that the wise looking for live in this palace, , But he found him full of many people who came to seek advice from the wise man, so he waited for several hours until his turn came.

When the boy came and stood in the hands of the wise man asking him about the secret of true happiness, the wise man listened attentively to him and then said to him: "My time is not enough to answer your question, so I ask you to walk around the palace until I finish my work, "Hold this spoon in your hand as you walk around the palace, but be careful not to spill the oil around the palace!" Hakim added after he gave the boy a small spoon containing a little oil. The young man began to walk around the palace, and all this time he focused on the spoon in his hands for fear of the oil falling out of it until he returned to meet the wise man asked by the wise man, who began by asking him: "Have you seen the precious old artifacts that I kept in my room? The beautiful garden? Did you stop the precious books that I kept in my library?

The young man felt confused and shocked. He told the wise man that he was aware of these matters. He was focused on not letting the oil out of the spoon. He said, "Go back and walk in the palace again." The boy went back to the palace. On the walls, and enjoy the beautiful garden scene and fragrant flowers, and when he returned to the wise narrated to him in detail what he saw in the palace, the wise asked him: "But where is the oil that was present in the spoon?" The boy looked at the spoon and found that it had spilled without attention, and the wise man said to him, "This is the advice I can give you." The secret of happiness is to be able to enjoy life and beauty without pouring oil from your spoon. Understanding the boy the destination of the wise, explained happiness is that a person can balance things, and enjoy his life with attention to his health and work, and maintain his reputation.

Teacher And Students

One day, the teacher entered the classroom and handed it over to the students. She then asked them to come out with a paper and write down the names of all the students, leaving a space between each name, and then asking them to write the most beautiful thing to say about each colleague in this distance And the teacher told them she would collect the papers after the holiday.

Each student began preparing his paper. Each of them wrote what the teacher had requested. After the day of the holiday, the teacher collected all the papers, put each student's name in a paper, followed by a list of all that his colleagues wrote about him. Each student gave the paper bearing what his friends wrote about him .

After a short time, a wide smile began to appear on the faces of all the students as they read what their classmates had written about them. I did not know I was so loved by my colleagues, I never realized I meant anything to anyone. The students knew that it was nice to tell their loved ones that they were important and exceptional, that they meant a lot to them, and had not forgotten this experience all their lives.

Ambition Trap

One day two fishermen went fishing, one of them caught a large fish, put it in his basket and decided to go home. The other fisherman asked him, "Where do you go?" "I'll go home, I've caught a very big fish," the man replied. "It's better to catch more fish." His friend asked him, "Why did not I?" The man replied: "Because then you can sell the fish in the market." His friend asked him, "Why do I sell fish?" He said, "In order to get more money," his friend asked him, "Why do I do that?" The man replied: "Because then you can save him and increase your balance in the bank." He asked him, "Did not I do that?" The man replied, "To be rich," the friend asked him, "What do I do when I am rich?" "You can someday enjoy your time with your wife and children," said the wise man. "That's exactly what I'm doing now, and I do not want to postpone it until my age is lost!"

Conviction is an inexhaustible treasure

The old stories said that a king wanted to reward one of his compatriots, and said to him: "Own from the land all the spaces that you can walk on your feet." The man rejoiced and began to walk in the land in a hurry and madly mad. He walked for a long time. To give him the space of the land he had cut, but he changed his mind, he felt he could take more distance, and determined to continue to walk, walked long distances, and thought to return to the king only the distance he made, but he hesitated again, and decided to continue to walk until More on.

The man has been walking for days and nights, and he never returns. He is said to have lost his way and lost his life. He is said to have died of exhaustion and tiredness. He has nothing, never felt satisfied or happy. He has lost a precious treasure. He died.

The Eagle Story

There was a female eagle living on the tops of a mountain, and nest on one of the trees spread on that mountain, and one day the female Eagle eats four eggs, but a violent earthquake shook the mountain, one egg fell from the nest, and then rolled down until settled In a bottle of chicken, one of the chickens took it and hugged it until it was frozen, and a small eagle came out of it.

The young eagle was playing with the chicken chicks in the yard, and he saw a group of eagles flying high, so he wished he could fly like it, The little eagle eased, but he gave in and forgot his dream of flying in the sky. Soon he died after having lived a long life like the chickens.

Advertising and blind

A blind man sat on a sidewalk in a street and put his hat in front of him. Next to him was a sign that read: "I am a blind man. Please help me." A man passed through the street where the blind man was sitting. He found that his hat contained only a little money. In the hat, and then - and ask to ask the blind - took the plate next to him and wrote another word, and then returned to its place and left.

The blind man began to notice that his hat was full of money. He knew that the reason was what the man did with his painting. A passer-by asked what was written on the painting: "We are in the spring, but I can not see its beauty!"