God, Eternal Father of Love, whose Grace manifests our destination and floods us with redemptive, inexpressible love. You who so inseparably bound our salvation with your holy will. 

Son and Word of God consubstantial and undivided from the Father and the Paraclete, who enriched the earthly atmosphere with glory and blessing through the revealing clearness of Your words, You who united Your divine nature with the human flesh and deified  it.   

Most sacred and life-giver Holy Spirit,   who penetrates the hearts with your divine guidance  and the Love which is beyond the laws of life. You who gives Light and Life and blesses  and forms   the Universe.

Holy Trinity, blessed and virtuous, consubstantial and undivided , embrace our existence, transform our soul according to Your redemptive will and let the joy dawn, bringing the man’s face in front of Yours and teach him to believe in You and love You. 

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Numerous are the words and feelings that come to my mind…. Inexpressible joy is surging within me! How many times I fall and the beauty disappears, rising, falling, rising, falling , compulsive in my imperfection….

I am ashamed at times when I find myself in the position of communicating so important elements with my fellow beings. I am thinking, is it my concern to deal with, interpret, form, co ordinate actions that remained untackled?

I am astonished at times, when I realize that what I am doing, gives the impression of being stolen. My heart , do not betray me. My God make me a blessed tool for Your glory. How can I raise my head and what can I say? What can my heart confess since the memory of the fall startles my existence.

Yet, nothing can stop the joy of awareness. The information enriches my spiritual blood with plenty and clear uncreated  oxygen , I bow my head and want nothing more but  the Christ’s word, the Father’s will and the Spirit’s blowing. That’s what I want. To let myself in their justice and find the way through their guidance.  May whatever I do be blessed and may God gives me the courage no matter how long or difficult the route is. Only His will I want in my life and existence.

My God, I wish this work of mine, this effort, which was created with hard work and joy, would be the cause to warm and inform peoples’ hearts, about how much I love them and how difficult it is for me to endure them. How many times I was betrayed, hurt, but all the more so, I was the compulsive who made them feel sad, hurt them, didn’t put   Your word into action, I wonder what follows? Where shall we go?

May Your will be done, please my God. Place me next to You no matter whether I am the last or the most unimportant. I only want to be with You and all my fellow beings in front of me watching them to enter Your Kingdom. All of them, not even one may be lost, Lord, to “melt” for Your love and   resemble  You ,thus giving meaning to life and our destination for the inheritance of Your Heavenly Kingdom.

This work my dearest fellow beings, constitutes a work of life for me, I chose the points and references from the four Gospels which according to my sense describe and express widely God’s truth.

I wanted the listener to be “entrapped” in a journey of word, sounds both tangible and spiritual. To join time and conscience in a simple way. To share the joyful and redemptive feast with every individual whom I meet with my thought and heart.

 Here in this work of mine I have reposed the heart of my pursuit. While I was creating it I was shattered. The joy was often joining me, redemptive tears were surging within my conscience.

I found the truth so simply and clearly in Christ’s words! My heart was flying uniquely   through His redemptive meanings! But The Heaven was acquiring  existence  while I was thinking that I will  repose them  gently in front of   your feet and through these give the chance to others to   be guided.                   

I believe that we shouldn’t leave the words of the Gospels behind incautiously .We are not  in the position to probe into it   by ourselves so simply. 

A humble frame of mind as well as simplicity are needed and of course trust to what we read, in order to have the conscience of pure information that is so perfect, through a constant frame of mind to put Christ’s words into action.

In this route the priests and our Church, through the people who belong to it, is a blessed choice, so that we will be able to experience the words of the Gospel properly.

Many people around me face the Gospels like “enlightening “texts. Like philosophical top truths. Like something nice. Like something old and poor which was made for reasons of   worldly   social justice, so that the church has the power to guide   people and so many other….Everyone  chooses the meaning he or she will give to his or her  life! It’s a shame! God Himself came to earth. He was sacrificed for us. He gave us His word. He taught everything perfectly, flooded with clearness, simplicity and Love and we leave them behind so thoughtlessly.     

I wish this record reaches many peoples’ hands and hearts, I let myself in His will and I am not concerned about anything. Since the essence and the worthy are invariably found   for thousands of years in the blessed Gospels. May   this word be blessed by God for the way I formed them and the form in which I present them.      

Please I warmly request you to forgive me for what comprises my imperfect nature. Give meaning to your existence. Put God’s will   into action in your life for the essential prosperity of our communion with God.

Besides Jesus Christ said everything! 

‘……love your enemies, make good to those who hate you. The way you want to be treated by people then do the same to them, because if you love only those who love you, what favor are you expecting from God? Since the sinners love those who love them.

Listen to me and understand it, nothing that goes into the mouth from the outside can really make the man unclean, it is what comes out of him that makes him unclean.

Love the Lord Your God with all your heart, all your soul and your entire mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment.

Second, but of equal importance: to love your neighbor the way you love yourself. The law and the prophets are epitomized in these two commandments. Love one another. The way I loved you, love one another. In this way you will be distinguished as my followers, if you love one another…”

May God bless and hallow us.

With love and pain.

Petros Gaitanos

January 2010