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Whoever loves nature, God will not leave him
If you see that a man threw bread on the floor and went away. That person will have to starve. We’ll have to starve!
You can’t disrespect food. If you can – eat it up. If you can’t – cut in pieces and give to the birds. This is not gasoline for the car. This is a gift from God. God’s gift to man. Why can’t you put your feet on the table? Why can’t you sit down on the table? Why can’t you lie down on the table? Why can’t you dance on the table? Because the table is the throne. In the ancient custom of all Christians, people kissed the table after getting up after eating.
You may have noticed. We are standing in the altar. We’re all at the altar now. There is no iconostasis. Whatever we take from the throne, we kiss the throne. We take the cross, we take the gospel – we kiss the throne. This is how people used to kiss the table in the house. There was bread on the table. And when they ate, they kissed the table and rose up. Putting your feet on the table, as in American culture, is something prohibitively impudent. This is some kind of satanism. How can you put your feet where people eat. “If you put bread on the table, then the table is the Throne. And if there is not a piece of bread, then the table is a board.” In the eastern Poland, the peasants up to this days, perhaps, the hostess draws a cross on a loaf with a knife first of all. And then she cuts off the first piece. She gives it to father in the family. And then to the eldest son, and then to everyone else in turn. This is all very important.
It is difficult for a person to become insane if he understands basic things. If he does not spit in the well, does not put his feet on the table, does not laugh at the cripple, shares what he has earned with the needy and the poor, goes to church on Sunday, respects the old man. It is difficult for a person to fall away from God, because God imbedded important, powerful things in him. Today, in this celluloid, in this cardboard, concrete, plastic, computer civilization, we need important simple things to be put into our souls.
Theology comes later. First – bread, water, trees, people, birds, children. All this needs to be put into the soul. We have to understand it. “Whoever loves nature, God will not leave him,” said the Equal-to-the-Apostles Cosmas of Aetolia. Take care of the trees – the trees will save you. Persecution will come – the forests will cover you. There will be hunger – the forest will feed you. Take care of trees – don’t break branches. Do not trample the flowers. Do protect the environment.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
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