Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou: After the great events we will be called to preach Orthodoxy

Metropolis-morfou We Orthodox Christians will not be mere admirers of prophets and prophecies. We have to manage things. Nor should we be afraid around all that is being created in case a bullet catches us too. We may not be hit by a bullet, we may be hit by an earthquake, or we may be hit by a famine. In other words, we will also have some effects. So it needs management, internal management. Not to fill our fridges, one day they will be empty...

There is something beautiful in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians of the Apostle Paul that says: "outward battles, inward fears." There are battles outside, there are fears inside me. It is human, it is natural, but the other Apostle John the Theologian says: "perfect love casts out fear". So our problem is perfect love.

Perfect love does not come with sentimental love stories. Perfect love is through repentance and perfect love is Christ, the only one who identified himself as I am Love.

So through this whole process and repentance, as I was taught and I try to live it somewhat unacceptably learning I would say, but also the study of the events and the past and the present and the future, gives me as a final conclusion my fathers and brothers that we Orthodox, and especially the Orthodox of Cyprus and Greece, have protection, we will have protection in these events from the Virgin Mary for one reason: because we will be called, when the war that has already started is over and the world the rest will come to awareness and crush those who live, to preach Orthodoxy.

So make sure you are well established in your Orthodox faith.

It is very important. Tomorrow the Turkish Cypriots will ask you. Tell me about Panagia. Tell me how to forgive. Tell me how to pray. So we have to have a little experience. And of prayer and repentance and of the Virgin Mary.

A Turkish Cypriot, Hellenistic philologist please, says to me, my bishop, the next time you come, bring me an icon of Meirem, the Virgin Mary. I take him an icon of the Virgin Mary. He tells me, oh didn't I tell you to bring me an applied Gospel? I say to him, what does the Gospel mean? I know applied mathematics, but I have never heard an applied Gospel. He tells me, that when a Christian takes the faith of the Gospel seriously and applies it, what is that person called? I tell him, his name is Agios. Ah, I want, he tells me, the life of a Saint to bring me. He wanted a Saint's life, the image was not enough for him, he just wanted a life.

And I took him the life of Saint Arsenius of Cappadocia, who lived in Turkey, the man, I deliberately rushed him, and I also took him one of the books about Saint Paisios, and I told him read these and we will talk again.

So we must slowly take the life of repentance seriously. Let's keep three tins. Our Orthodox faith is unadulterated, because God and many people of other religions, and other nations will ask for it, so we must have something to give.

The second to have diligent repentance, another time gladly to talk about diligent repentance.

And the third is to have regular Holy Communion because we must be constantly cleansed of any passions and mistakes in the forgiveness of sins and because our perspective is not to have a good time in this life but to have eternal life.