Today unfortunately, the European courtesy has come in and they try
to show themselves as being nice. They wish to show superiority and
finally they end up worshiping the two horned devil. “One religion, they
tell you, should exist” and they level out everything. Some also come
to me and tell me “All of us who believe in Christ should create one
religion.” “Now it is as if you are telling me, I told them, about gold
and copper, so many carats gold and that much copper, that was
separated, to gather them and make them one again. Is it correct to mix
them again? Ask a jeweler. Is it proper to mix trash with gold? So much
struggle was waged to distil the dogma.”
The Holy Fathers must have known something for prohibiting the
relationships with the heretics. Today they say: “we should pray
together not only with heretics but also with the Buddhist and with
the fire worshiper and the demon worshiper. The Orthodox must also be
present in common prayers and in their conferences. It is a presence.”
What presence? They resolve everything with logic and justify the
unjustifiable. The European mind believes that also the spiritual
matters can also come into the Common Market. Some of the Orthodox who
are shallow and wish to make a promotion, “a mission,” they arrange
conferences with the heterodox to cause a sensation, believing this way
that they promote Orthodoxy, by becoming so to speak “Hungarian goulash”
with the false believers. Then the super-zealots take hold of the other
end; they also blaspheme against the Mysteries of the New-calendarists,
etc. and deeply scandalize the souls who have piety and Orthodox
sensitivity.
On the other hand, the heterodox come to conferences, act like
teachers, take whatever good spiritual thing they find from the
Orthodox, they process it, they give it their own colour and mark and
they present it as a prototype. And the strange contemporary world
becomes touched by such strange things and is spiritually destroyed. The
Lord though at the appropriate time will present the Marks, the
Eugenikos and the Gregorys Palamas who will assemble all our deeply
scandalized brothers, to confess the Orthodox faith and strengthen the
traditions of the Church and give great joy to our Mother, the Church.”
+ Elder Paisios
From the Book: “With anguish and love for the contemporary man.”
Publication: Holy Hysichastirion of Evangelist John the Theologian by Souroti, Thessaloniki.
Publication: Holy Hysichastirion of Evangelist John the Theologian by Souroti, Thessaloniki.
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