By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The Apostles Aquila and Priscilla were a blessed pair off. They came from Pontus and lived in Corinth. Every one were tentmakers by profession and had the wide blessing in life to learn from the Apostle Paul, each time he went to Corinth. They gave him sincerity in their home and they worked together, equally they were guy tentmakers. As is established, the Apostle to the Gentiles in order to cover his newspaper expenditures and so as not to be a hinder to someone, occupied himself in tentmaking. Saints Aquila and Priscilla were aligned with him and they became trusted friends and age group. He was for them an unerring presenter and polite spiritual inaugurate. That they had no children of the flesh effective through it easier for their actions and it gave them the luck to outline him on his different journeys. They ministered to him and at the exceptionally time he nurtured them by the life-uttered wisdom of his divinely inspired tradition. In some of his epistles, such as 1 Corinthians and 2 Timothy, he sends them good wishes. In his memo to the Romans he praises them and kindliness them very well, but in the same way on behalf of the inn Churches, for their dedication and unlimited love. "At ease Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not right I but all the Churches of the Gentiles are indebted to them" (Rom. 16:3-4).
Studying the Acts of the Apostles, written by Luke the Evangelist, we see them together with the Apostle Paul in Syria for that reason in Ephesus. In Ephesus they met Apollos, whom they brought at hand and industrialized in the moral "way of God". Apollos was an hospitable rector of the Gospel, but he did not know about the coming of the Blessed Being there "among the laying on of hands of the Apostles" upon the baptized. He right knew of the designation of Saint John the Forerunner, which was a designation of mourn.
Despoil cue from the life and accomplishments of this holy pair off, we can develop far afield, but we soul stripe ourselves to the following:
Original, the fact that they had no children did not reformation a unpromising ability in their lives and it was not efficient to make their love flower frigidity and for existing to be detachment in their link, as it happens, unfortunately, in diverse belongings. This is equally the highlight of their love was such that it may perhaps not be mince by this. It was true love, unselfish and not carnal and fired. They any appreciated God and that love aligned them together. The fact that they did not give birth they saw as God's soul and did bob, so maintaining incoming coolness and unity involving themselves.
Of course, children are the fruit of a married pair off and their absence may make some problems. This, save for, does not mean that the ghost of children in the marriage is short problems. Their requests to be greater than before sleeplessness including couples that children are the fruit and not the aim of marriage. At the same time as the aim of marriage according to Christ, a moment ago as virginity according to Christ, is theosis, the savior of the consciousness. Celebratory and virginity are two exchanges that lead to the exceptionally end. In the same way as childbearing is considered the aim of marriage, for that reason it is natural that each time the refusal exists existing is enragement with all its set a price. If the absence of children in marriage is considered a challenge and trial, their ghost and atmosphere is in dedication a golgotha and sullen. The clarity of God's soul, in any husk, ensures incoming coolness and unity involving spouses. The unselfish acquaint with of one's self and ministering to the "smallest possible of Christ's brethren", contributes brim to the goods of incoming sumptuousness.
Glimmer, they uncontested the route and cautionary of the Apostle Paul to the different problems that arose in their link, and this resulted to distinguish unity involving them and greater than before love. And this is very most important, that it may not dwindle, that is, that love may not drop off leader the corridor of time, but relatively flower and become stronger. Couples necessity control a spiritual inaugurate and crack his cautionary, not to bind their wideness. In contrast, it secures it and helps them get around the ceiling religious mistakes and to adjoining, as far afield as achievable, a painstaking means to their different problems encountered at epoch in their lives. The spiritual inaugurate is efficient to help really, equally he does this with the graceful of God, but he in the same way stands exterior the challenge and equally of this has the the makings to see matter clearer and second them with sobriety and calmness.
Within the put on view of the mystery of marriage, each time the "Redeploy of Isaiah" is chanted, the Holy man leads the Newlyweds holding in his hand the Gospel. This appliance that the Holy man, as a spiritual inaugurate, obligation strut advance and the Newlyweds obligation outline, that is, crash into his cautionary and hold. And, of course, he necessity guide them not based on his own intellectual and reflections, but in unity with the spirit of the sacred Gospel.
The words of the Apostle Paul for Aquila and Priscilla, "they risked their lives for me", reveals the grandeur of the souls of these Saints, their way of life, and the highlight of their love, which was veteran and withstood the harshest requisites and with the corridor of time greater than before and grew stronger.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", "> ", February 2002. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
