Glory be to Jesus Christ!
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To the righteous Anna, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
For the readings from the Apostle, please refer to the links:
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/commentaries/18092023.html
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/commentaries/28032023.html
For the readings from the Gospel, please refer to the link:
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/commentaries/28102023.html
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Luke XIII, 19 — 'κόκκῳ' - 'kokko' - (to) 'grain'.
Luke XIII, 25 — 'ἡμῖν' - 'emin' - (to) 'us'.
Luke XIII, 26 — ἡμῶν - 'emon' - 'us' (our).
Luke XIII, 27 — 'ἐμοῦ' - 'emou' - 'Me'.
The first part of the reading has a parallel in Matthew XIII, 31-33 and Mark IV, 30-32, which are referred to here:
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/commentaries/11072023.html
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/commentaries/05092023.html
In response to the question of how many people will be saved, the Lord gives an answer… neither statistical nor mathematical. And we need to explain why.
The question of how many people will be saved actually replaces the question of the salvation of each individual, each person, with the question of comparing people with each other and assessing their compliance with an average standard
of what constitutes a good life. But such an average comparison with an imaginary average
person (wherever this imaginary average
may lie, the achievement of which is sufficient for salvation
), the idea of which will be formed mainly on the basis of partial observations of the lives of some people from each person's environment, does not in fact provide a satisfactory answer to the question of the salvation of each or everyone, and in particular of the person themselves.
It is impossible for a person to make a correct judgement about their own salvation from the fact that many or few people are saved.
Instead, the Lord says that we need to look at our capabilities and at God's commandments, God's will.
As for the capability, everyone can be saved, and therefore is called to it. If someone does not get saved, it is solely because of their failure to fulfil God's will, which desires everyone to be saved and come to the cognition of the truth.
Therefore, Christ speaks of living according to God's will, according to grace. And as a striking example, He gives the fact that unexpectedly for everyone, many people will be saved, and many people will not be saved (which only confirms the fallacy of comparing oneself with others to determine one's salvation).
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!