Someone will say to me, “What are you talking about, my lord? We didn't know that at the time, we were wrong. This is remorse. I have an example of a child who put pressure on a man of God, my child. And when this was done, he said to him, "Young man"—he was a very handsome young man, and still is. “Young man, let me tell you, stop. What are we doing?” The monk said to him, “This is my friend.” What did he say to him? "Do not be with different people, my child, you may catch some disease and die young to know repentance, for in repentance there is joy."
So what did you tell him? You hang out with different people and do things like that. How did you find out? God has shown it to me now. How did God show it to you and what did He say to him? As it passed, a smell came from you and you were surrounded by that smell associated with your sexual acts. He said to him, “This is a special smell that I know.” Hear how the saints received information. He was shocked. The young man says to you, "But there are men of God who pass by and know our passions."
This child helped him. He went to a monk, repented, the monk helped the child and he repented. But what did the monk, the good monk, tell him? “Bring your parents to me too.” But I don't know, they were very upset. "My child, this is him" - and she explained to him what his parents had done when she was pregnant. His mother left, his parents cried a lot, they were sorry. The monk sent them to the priest, they confessed their sins.
And then she said to him: "Bring me your brother too." You have a brother." That child said to him, "Get rid of this passion, for your mother says that he contracted a disease that they could not cure, and he saved your second brother." "What shall we say to my brother now ? We need help.'' He said to him, 'Stop feeding this energy of passion into you.' He said this to my brother as well. Then the child and the whole family began to wake up. Hear, hear: every morning at 6:00, before breakfast, the whole family - the father, the mother, the homosexual son and the other son who was not homosexual - gathered for prayer and an address to the Holy Virgin Mary.
Know that for all carnal passions our direction is the Holy Virgin Mary, because she is the only pure and chaste Virgin. So every morning we prayed on our knees to the Holy Virgin Mary. The child felt a change, but do you know what that means? First, to share this passion with your family - you are no longer alone. Second, the whole family confessed and prayed, and everyone felt: this is my passion, not Dimitri's passion, it is common to all of us.
Just as we are proud of our children's achievements when they turn 20, we should not hide their passions. One who carries this passion must feel part of the whole. When the whole family began to pray every morning, after an hour they had breakfast and each went to his work. One day this child made progress. The ex-homosexual achieved a male sexual relationship through communal prayer and stopped acting in the old way. The desire remained, but he learned to base himself on Christ. Higher level: not just being a machine with a brake, but moving at high speed towards the heavens.
What happened to him? When he was alone, his artist told him, “The screen in front of him opened and he saw different faces.” What do you think those faces were? These were men he had relationships with. And next to him stood his guardian angel. And I turned and said to him angrily: “It is over, because you are tormenting me with an old guilt.” And the guardian angel said to him: “This is the command of the Lord. If you want to rise, pray for all those who share your passion, because these people continue to sin, and now your prayer has power and God wants you to pray for them.
Listen, I also began to pray for one: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on Dimitri, have mercy on me too. Forgive Dimitri, forgive me too. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy, Mother of God, sanctify the saint, sanctify me too." With tears and repentance, this child now smells of fragrances. I tell you, pray for your children in this way, or turn especially to the Virgin Mary to protect them, not only from this phenomenon, but also from other phenomena that are more difficult than the carnal.'
Blessed be your years as well, may they continue to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit. You see, we have entered dark times.
This has happened before in our history, when light alternates with darkness.
Now, it is said that the darkest hour is just before dawn, and those of you who are older, those of you who have spent nights in your orchards, you know that the darkest hour is just before the light begins to break.
We are living in this darkness, not only because our displacement continues, dragging on and reaching half a century, but because of all these events.
Geneva has faced many trials from all nations, including our own evolution. The people of God, with whom we speak, see things that the media do not see, that our politicians do not see, and that people in power, in any kind of authority, do not see. Today, powers are many, and often they are stronger in places where they are not visible.
The people who can see tell us, and I must say this to you, the people of Morphou, because you are a suffering people for many, many years, and your children too, because we live in constant waiting. And waiting is tiring, but when waiting is accompanied by patience and prayer, it is refreshing. Our problem is to find these two, along with the waiting for the freedom that we must keep in our hearts, no matter how many years pass.
This is the destiny of Cyprus, to be reunited, as a holy woman once told me when she departed here for the Holy Grotto of Saint Galactia in Crete, where she now rests, performing miracles for a year. She said to me, "My bishop, this is how it will be for your island." She showed me her two hands joined together, and then separated them. "They divided it this way," she said, "but God will bring it back together, not humans, not human plans." She opened her fingertips and said, "There will be a union without war. There will be a terrible war elsewhere, but not in Cyprus."
We must pray for those elsewhere, for they are also people—in Ukraine, in Libya, in Vietnam, and in America, which awaits the worst, poor America. We must pray, "Christ, give me the patience and faith of the saints." We will need it, for it is not just about war events. There will also be shortages of fuel, food, and medicine, even here in Cyprus. That’s why everyone should make their preparations, so that you don’t say later that the bishop didn’t tell you. I’m telling you, make your preparations. We are living in the second and a half year of the Third World War; they just don’t tell us.
And it doesn’t need to start in our neighborhood, but our neighborhood is already under pressure. So, I ask you, we may not face large war events, but maybe we’ll have some small incidents. But at the end of this global upheaval and adventure, after the Third World War, there will be reunion and freedom for the entire land. Why? Because the Russians will fall out with the Turks, and what they did to Ukraine, they will do ten times worse to Turkey. This is the reason. These things will not happen magically. Whoever believes that, I, as your bishop, must share my faith and my experience with you. Whoever wants to, can listen. Keep these things in mind, please.
It is not enough to just stock your refrigerators and cellars, because if we do not learn to share with those who do not have, these things will not last long. The secret is to learn to share your food, your medicine, your soul, your comfort, your love, your support, especially with the weak.
And one last thing that the last saint left us, who was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was a Cretan priest-monk, who was also my confessor when I was a student, Saint Evmenios, a disciple of the holy elders. Among the many things he told me, and now I share them on the internet so we can all benefit, was this: "Do you want, deacon," just as you are now, deacon, "do you want to know if you are on the path of God? You will not understand it from great sermons or large crosses or fasting. Even Satan believes and fears, but it means nothing. You will understand from two things: first, examine your heart. Do you easily forgive those who hurt and wrong you? Do you forgive quickly and easily? Then you are on the path of the saints."
"The second thing," he said, "and there is no third, is to see how much patience you have in afflictions, accusations, and slanders from people. If you endure with patience and prayer, and you forgive, then you are on the path of Christ, the path of the saints, the path of Saint Mamas, Saint George, Saint Paraskevi, the path of freedom—from our passions and from the Turks."
I wish this for you, and may you pray for us as well. I must go now.
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