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The Saints
The Holy Spirit is the Sanctifier, transmitting divine life to people.
This especially takes place through the saints.
The saints are models for us and intercessors before God. They are filled with divine, uncreated fire, with divine love accompanied by humility. They have become like burning coals, filled with divine life, divine relics that exude a precious fragrance.
From Saint Irenaeus to Saint Gregory Palamas, the holy fathers say that at baptism we receive a divine seed, divine, uncreated energy that enters into the depths of our hearts.
Because of our freedom, Christ God does not act within us-- that is, this hidden potential received at baptism is only transformed into kinetic energy by our own will.
Saint Basil the Great says:
"Our eyes, our vision, become Gods eyes and vision, our ears, the Lord's ears... even our thoughts become the Lord's thoughts."
In this way the saints understand, explain and live the work of the Holy Spirit in man.
In this way, the person in whose life the Holy Spirit works can act according to the model of Jesus Christ, the perfect God-man in his daily life at home, in the family, at school, at work, living the Christian virtues such as "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).
+Ephrem
Metropolitan of Tripoli, al-Koura and their Dependencies
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