A man can be healed, remember, like a leper, and healed, go and forget to give thanks. For God, the heart is more important. Although the Lord still gives many miracles. By the way, many people are regularly brought to this church with myrrh-streaming icons. "How do you mean myrrh-streaming?" "Look at the photos. You can see how fragrant oil begins to be released from the icon. "What kind of butter?" "Fragrant, yes.

Moreover, you can examine everything there, see - there are no holes, there is nothing. I once saw how in front of one icon of the Tsar-Martyr there was such a vapor, the myrrh stood out before my eyes. And in another case, a man told me, he also saw with his own eyes how four drops flowed down from the four ends of the icon. — Do you have such an icon in your church? "She is brought to us.

"And not now?" — At the moment, there is none. It is brought very often. "And you had myrrh streaming?" — Yes, and so much flowed down that whole vases were filled. People were healed from this world. Let us now come to the very heart of the mystery of Christianity. The most important faith of Christians, the very heart, is faith in the trinity of God.

We believe that God is not just a Person, but a Superperson, because these are three Persons Who are One God – the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. This is the mystery of mysteries, the most important of all in Christianity. In the name of the Trinity we are baptized, in the name of the Trinity we receive adoption, in the name of the Trinity we receive forgiveness of sins. Why do we believe in the Trinity? Because God has revealed it.

We know that disbelief in the Trinity implies disbelief in love. For example, Muslims do not believe that God is a Trinity. And they don't believe that God is love. And we believe that God is love and therefore a Trinity. Whom did God love before the creation of the world? God loved His Son and the Holy Spirit. And if He is alone, alone? Is he the Great Egoist? But this is not true, we know that God is always faithful and loving, He is Love, precisely because He is the Trinity.

There are various attempts to logically substantiate the trinity. We can compare the Trinity with the solar disk, coming from it with a ray and heat. The solar disc is a symbol of the Father, the ray is a symbol of the Son, and the heat is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Although they differ from each other, they constitute a single something. But this is only an image. Or, for example, a river is a source, a channel and an estuary are three components of one whole, although they differ from each other, the essence is the same.

But these are all images that are supposed to illustrate the mystery. The mystery will remain a secret. We cannot say why God is a Trinity. Trinity exists without any "whys." It should not be thought that if you prove it, then God is a Trinity, and if you do not prove it, then He is not a Trinity. He is Triune in Himself, whether we like it or not. Many people say: well, why are you scaring me with your Judgment of God, I still don't believe in God.

You can answer: if you do not believe, it is your business, but He will not cease to be because of this. And the worst thing is that the Judgment will not disappear from this either. This, of course, is a "good" principle, the principle of the ostrich – to hide your head in the sand. The dogma of the Trinity is internally consistent, that is, we do not say that God is Triune in essence and One in essence – this would be a logical contradiction.

We do not say that He is Triune in Person and One in Person – that would also be a logical contradiction. But we know that He is Trinitarian: three Persons, three Selves, three Self-Consciousnesses, and one Essence. And all three are one God, one kingdom, one glory, one might, one dominion, one power. So, we believe in three Persons. The First Person is the Father. His name is Father.

Moreover, the word, as St. Cyril of Alexandria says, the name Father is greater than the name God. Why? Because God is the Father regardless of creation. He is the eternal Father. Is it possible to be a father without children? Is it possible to be a childless father? Of course not. Therefore, God the Father always has a Son. It is very important to remember that the Son was born of the Father without a mother. Many people think, mistakenly think, some Muslims have the idea that Christians believe that He is the carnal Son of the Father. This is nonsense.

The bodiless Father gives birth to the bodiless Son. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, His other name is the Logos, the Son, the Word. He's the Word of the Father. As our mind expresses itself in words, it can be said that our mind begets the word, so the Father begets the Son, who is the eternal Self-revelation of the Father. The Father is beginningless, He has no beginning. Not only in the sense of time, but also in the sense of time, none of the Divine Persons has a beginning—the Pre-eternal Father, the Pre-eternal Son, the Pre-eternal Holy Spirit. They are all eternal. They are all holy. They are all perfect.

But it has no beginning in the sense of origin. The Father is the source of being in Himself. He unites life in Himself, as it is said in the Word of God. He possesses all the fullness of the divine nature and gives all of it in birth to the Son. God the Son, the Word of the Father, is the eternal Revelation of the Father, the seal of the image of the Father, the eternal icon of the Father, the radiance of His Glory, the Light that shone forth from the Light. He is eternally begotten of the Father. Or it is born. — Why was he born and is being born?

"He is born because He is always perfect, there is no flow, no process in Him. And He is born because He is eternally from the Father. That is, He did not break away from the Father in His birth. How does it happen in our birth? The child is separated from the mother. Not so in God. The Father is all in the Son, and the Son is all in the Father. And He was born before all ages, that is, before all time.

Here you are teaching the Symbol of Faith, it says: "... who was born of the Father before all ages." And His birth is not subject to any passionate characteristics, it is like a candle being lit from a candle. The Father begat the Son, but He did not grow weary, He did not decrease. And Jesus Christ is called the Power of the Father. He's the eternal Power of the Father. The Father begat Silas, but He Himself was not weakened. Christ is called the Wisdom of the Father.