Met. Anthony (Pakanich): Nativity fast is a time of change

Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) explains what is important to have time to do during the Nativity Fast 2020–2021.

What is our life filled with? Work, leisure, everyday life. We relax, flipping through the news feed, watching meaningless TV shows. Thus, we steal life from ourselves, that little time on Earth that is not allotted to us for this.

Isn’t it enough to go over the main points without diving? You should not allow yourself to be drawn into this funnel of contradictory, unverified, mostly unnecessary information for us, which draws out vital energy from us and leaves us no energy for anything else, makes us illegible and, as a result, defenseless. We ourselves open the gates of our fortress in front of everything that is directed, in fact, against us.

What to do? Replace the news with live communication. Call the one whose face you’ve already forgotten. Believe me, you will find joy and energy where you never expected, rush with a warm wind on a chilly winter day into someone’s dull, everyday life – and give hope and faith.

Try to show a genuine interest in someone. Stop being a mechanism, but at least for a short while become a person in the true sense of the word. Try to force yourself, so, as an experiment.

You will at least have an experience, perhaps one that you will yearn for.

Proceed at least from the principle: this good, perhaps it will sprout in your garden.

By pulling yourself out of your routine, you can gradually distinguish between spring water and swamp slurry. You will not be so suggestible, there will be an understanding of the true, not false, not false.

Try to lift your head to the sky, don’t just look at your feet. The sky is decorated with stars and constellations, which are especially visible on a frosty night.

The Nativity of Christ is a holiday of the heart. And for the holiday – in order for it to be a holiday – you need to prepare.

And our heart can become a wonderful light house, capable of accepting the King of Kings, or it can remain a broken, twisted shack, which even drafts bypass.

Do not be burdened with life, try to comprehend it, look for meaning in everything – and the seeker will be surely shown it.

Recorded by Natalia Goroshkova

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