Life is not only a house of traumas, but also of consolations. How do we survive the trauma? This is impossible without an experience that allows us to be a cause of consolation. I am not simplifying the crisis for you. I am not telling you anything that is difficult for you to know. Like ...
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Advanced Culture
There is no more advanced cultured person in the world than he whom you see listening to the truth with love and speaking out about its issues. I am not obscuring sciences and exploring faces and books, but rather I am talking about the presence of the cultured person for the sake of a better ...
Read moreMeekness of Kings
I read the story of a woman, in the Netherlands, who came to church on a Sunday. When she went to a seat on which she was accustomed to sit, near the pulpit, she found a man, dressed in a normal attire, who had preceded her to it. She told him frankly: “You are sitting ...
Read moreFor Whom is Paradise First?
You rarely find people who acknowledge the talents of others, with gratitude and joy. I am not talking exclusively about those who live within the Church, who are supposed to know that life, without this acknowledgement is a kind of hell, but also about those who approach this life in its diversity, in politics, art, ...
Read moreOpenness of the Great Ones
God does not always come to you from people of your own color. God is not monochromous. Calm down your qualms. Open up a little more. This turns your life into a garden like paradise. The great ones, who preceded you, lived their life always awaiting God from everywhere. You will not be orthodox if ...
Read moreSigns of the Divine Love
I hold fast to a story that does not leave us in the Lenten prayers, namely, the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). There are three signs of divine love that are manifest in the father’s stances in the story. The first sign is that, when the younger son asked for “the portion of ...
Read moreHaving Mercy on Others
He who is incapable of having mercy on others, whose guilt has been confirmed to him, cannot be aware of what he means by saying: “Lord, have mercy”. To ask for mercy for ourselves, is something that presupposes that we seek to be healed of this reprehensible disability. You know the saying: “whoever has, to ...
Read moreWider Than the Heavens
There are two in the world about whom it was said that they are wider than the heavens, the Virgin Mary, the Mother who was capable of holding in her womb the Word Who is un-circumscribable, and those who have learned that “he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Let us not say ...
Read moreTo Be Patient
We have no share in getting over the hardships of this life unless we learn to be patient. Only he who is patient knows that, for the God Who is present with us, in all circumstances, it is impossible to forget us in our hardships.
Read moreThe One Love
I will pick for you, from the garden of St. Maximus the Confessor, his saying: “Blessed is the man who has learnt to love all men equally”. Words about the one love do not originate from a human being, and even no human being is capable of it on his own. The Confessor Saint did ...
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