the angel and the angel tells them souls
see relatives here on earth this is doctrinally clarified souls see
what all those who are in the foretaste of
paradise see in the same way at the same time e
the purer the soul the holier the soul the
greater right it has before god to see saints not only
see but what else do they come down among us I repeat the purer
their souls are and the more righteous they are before
God the more they see and learn and
are informed these souls who do not have a great presence cannot see
continuously continuously no in which soul moments can souls see in the moments
that God allows which moments God allows in a
danger in a big problem the whole church is mobilized up there
is chaos the grandson dies cry run pray kneel the
anthropomorphic souls rise up the whole triumphant church
prays and we don't understand and we in the hospital outside the
operating theater start crying and think that god has abandoned us so they
not only see but also pray for us they pray because when
here on earth this is their joy to pray for others this is what
the the duty of prayer does not stop in the other life since it is
God's command to pray and there the souls pray but there in a different
way there they see God and pray because the condition is yes
there is love and how much they pray much more fervently much stronger with much
greater
ferocity in fact it is very characteristic it is mentioned in the martyrdom
of Saint Ignatius the Godbearer that when he testified the believers who
lost him wept and he was afraid for the martyrdom that they themselves would go through in the anti
not here where the earthquakes happened and were claimed, he says when they held
an all-night vigil kneeling with tears,
all the faithful in the church saw Saint Ignatius the God-bearer
standing on his knees while God's chair because chair and crying
begging God for his children who they were in danger of testifying that they would
be persecuted, so not only the saints are unconscious, but also the souls of the
sleeping ones, only the saints, not only the saints, how do we know this, the holy scripture says,
that is, they do not watch us and see us, only the a
is wrong to say this, listen to the saints, I mean those recognized by the
church or holy,
they can help us, how do we know this in the old testament in
On the second day
of Maccabees, the Israelites were going through a terrible danger, they would be exterminated in a day
and their leader, Judas the Maccabee, began to be anxious, he knelt down and began to
pray, and what did he see there, he says he saw the high priest who had died a short
time ago, the son who was not a saint, but it was a high priest who says
he raised up the prophet Jeremiah and the two of them prayed together for the people and the
holy city of Jerusalem, therefore, from heaven they are watching,
watching and helping not only the saints such as the prophet Jeremiah but also
the high priest
Sonia who is not a saint is not a
saint
. help your children
and yours Saint Gregory or says to the martyr Theodore
please be an ambassador from where you are for the country Saint Gregory the
theologian asks the hieromartyr Cyprian to supervise from above that is to
see observe and intervene but now there is the most
difficult question that we all ask can souls descend here on earth
and when do we have any hagiographic
testimony that some soul came down here to earth only as a soul not with the body in the
miracle of the transfiguration who did moses come from
where did he come from hell did he come so in the transfiguration we have said this again
we have our christ the three disciples moses who came from hell so
he expresses the space of the souls of the sleeping and helias who does not
he had died and he came from a different place than the place of the
angels so it happened once but we know if the saints are always there in the
middle state or they are near us more they are near us and less they are
above how do we know but he tells us and the apostle paul says this having
around us a cloud of witnesses what does this mean that the witnesses
therefore have a great presence in God they not only supervise from heaven what
is happening on earth but they are among us they
embrace us among us in our streets in our houses in our city is
this what it means peri texton he does not say that he is somewhere high and they see us the
sky oversees here you say he is an embrace with us and St.
Gregory the theologian in the epitaph that he makes to his friend the kingdom says listen
it impresses me I did not know he says that the kingdom in heaven
is praying for his people here he has not forsaken us ok correct, but
he also says something that I did not notice, he also says that
every day he comes in the evenings when I pray and
appears in front of me and gives me instructions on what to do for some problems
I am facing, I repeat the great king not only supervised, not only
saw, but appeared many nights, says Saint Gregory the theologian there
in the cell on the Heri River that was in his hermitage, maybe not in
Constantinople I don't think later, I think I don't remember exactly when
the great king fell asleep, however, he appeared with his soul in front of him and
it is certain that when the temple of Pelorios, the largest temple in
Greece, was being built, it might be in Aegina of Saint
Nektarios, some evenings, says some spiritual children of Saint Nektarios,
they saw the metropolitan of the late Hydra the Rose God to converse with Saint
Nektarios and Saint Nektarios to give advice and instructions to the metropolitan
hydra priest regarding the temple conclusion so far that the souls
have senses and see and hear since they are in the foretaste they see us and
not all represent us the same for us they descend and to our earth we will see when
they descend now but before we go to that let us ask something else the sinful
souls who are in the foretaste of of hell in hell they can come down
to earth they can not alone in exceptional cases rarely when
god wants to give a message to people he allows even hellish
souls to appear to help all of us in penance we have in the
communion of saints in the old age countless such cases of
hellish people who suffer terribly and god allows them to come down and
appear to help the rest of us understand how horrible
the situation in hell is and in order not to do the same to us,
the example of Saint Jacob Tsaliki is very typical, we have said it before if
you remember who, at the time he
was commemorating in the procession, he saw souls not only of saints and
sessions who were crying out, he says, mercy, mercy, mercy,
they were begging, and I, he says, I was overwhelmed, he says, I could not
bear to see them crying, begging, crying out for
mercy, let's go now to our last point now is a bit difficult this I want you to
pay attention to soon it will be done in 5 minutes but I want
your attention a little bit when the souls of the
dead will descend to the earth sometimes that
God knows but especially there is some place and space that the souls
acquire the right to descend to the earth who
is this place and who is this space what is this time
it is the time of the divine liturgy because the divine liturgy
is also performed in favor of all the above fathers and brothers and lop we said
another time and you remember that in the divine worship man comes out of the present,
out of the place out of space and time, and the souls of the
sleeping ones out of their own place and space and time, and the angels
out of their own place, manner and time, therefore we have three kinds of nature
living and dead, all of whom these three
natures come out of their own present and go to heaven and to the ages
of the centuries, that is, in the church because we are all united through the divine
liturgy with our Christ who has no space and time for this
exactly forgive me in the divine worship and we have the right to
leave the present to go to Golgotha to go to Bethlehem to go to the
resurrection to the ascension to go also in the future to the second presence of Christ
in the worship therefore says the priest and all the simas and those born of the
cross of the tomb knock of the three day resurrection of the right-hand chair of the
second and how says in the glory of Christ's presence these are
born in the church because in the divine liturgy both the people and the
living and the angels come out of our own present and
enter into the non-present in the eternal outside of time they come out of time and
place and matter understanding and between us for this precisely
in the divine liturgy this did not beg and
Christ says I want everyone to be together they are all one
just as we are in one esmen this is our lord's request that we all be
together in divine worship so this is our lord's desire is coming
true we are angels and comenias alive through our communion with
christ all together and at that time they see us grandma grandpa father sees us
when we light a candle they feel great joy they see our life
they see our situation
god reveals it to them great rest they feel joy very great benefit and we become
one in the church like the transfiguration of Christ all became one three times
three places three natures became one like this and we say and the half trembling
we also become one with those who are asleep and we must strive for it he says this
as among us the trembling says the hymn the professor we who still live on earth
with the divine thanksgiving seek to become one so he says we must
we hasten to become one with those who are in the triumphant church and
how does this happen when we are united with Christ and at that time an
altar a liturgy of both heaven and earth and indeed now
see d it is shocking this says apocalypse and at that time he says that
the divine liturgy is done the souls of the martyrs in heaven plead with
God and you are called Lord why endure what is happening down on earth how long
you put up with people's crap run to help we spilled our blood for
you do something for our children do something for our people you see what a terrible
thing we experience every time in the divine service and we don't get
any news that's why many saints and even lay people report
that when sometimes we forget to pray for some of our own
he used to say this and the old paisius says sometimes I forget someone of mine
and he appeared to me once my relative and he told me the others
he mentioned all of them today in the liturgy in your prayer and me he didn't
mention me because I think this has also happened to you sometimes
in conclusion brothers in divine worship
this unity is not imaginary we give the right to their souls
and they come down to a divine liturgy in an altar to
see us hear us celebrate because we are also next to them now
these things you will say we will live them in the next zd no matter how much they say now, we won't feel it
the next day, we will understand it, and in fact when we
die, our relatives will reveal to us when we were in danger,
when we had difficulties, what they did for us, the grandmother, the father, the mother will tell us,
you know my child, when your child was in danger with the car, they
woke up all my friends, my acquaintances, the saints of my city,
the saints that I knew thousands came for you we guided the
doctor's hand to do the operation correctly and the child s we
will learn things that here seem unknown to us we think that
they happen by chance a church a prayer a communion a hug all of us
saints when we say saint we said in quotation marks all the souls that are on the verge of
heaven this concept changes not only our lives but also the life of
our country we have countless testimonies from
newly enlightened Christians of Turkey, how does the great-grandmother
who was an Orthodox Christian appear to them and say to them, my boy, become an Orthodox
Christian, these are our sayings, this is our past, now in the
earthquakes the Virgin appeared she gave water and food to one child
the holy month appeared to another one we are all one unity we are all not
something distant to live this this we were all alive before we were asleep
our holy fathers are all involved in our lives they know our difficulties and
our personal and our national and everyone so first of all let's not
forget them because when we die and we will say our children forgot us yes
but even now we don't remember them when he has a memorial service in the church what
do we do more they leave he tells you now what's nice he's not yours
and cominea and for yours at that time it's a terrible thing
i.e. we don't care at all we're only concerned with our mother our
father so let's not forget them and finally be ready we don't know
what time god will take us but what we know is that with as much
receptivity we will die with such recklessness we condemn ourselves to be
seen by God or not, that is, if we are not clean, we can be saved, but
we will be the last ones there, and we will be forever and ever, no, this needs
to be explained another time, there is no progress, we will be everywhere from a starting point
, we will not have a big part of God's eyes, they see us, so the dead
love us very much at this time, they may see us and everyone, you don't know, and be
happy that we are talking about them, not them we forget to love them,
to pray and to be ready for the
terrible judgment day
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