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I remembered an experience of a certain man at the same time, I will not tell you

his name, this man has fallen asleep, but so that you can see the struggle of people

and what a great thing love is, I was a

very virtuous man, a very

virtuous man, really, three of the evangelical law

that the church says, the rules, the commandments of God, he kept them all, and

finally he was also afflicted with a difficult disease which, with

mathematical precision, led him to death and this man lived with

great spiritual precision, he prayed incessantly

, he was confessing, he was constantly in communion, his life was a holy life,

a holy life, he was the head of a family, he had four or five

children, they had all the virtues, but it seems that he

lacked one, this man had a lot of prayer and a lot of

purity of heart, a lot of purity and he begged God to

show him that if Amma dies, he will

be saved. anxiety let's say the good anxiety not anxiety

anxiety but the good anxiety the good anxiety that how will

my exit from this world happen to me it seems that in the bottom of his heart there was a

void he understood it seems that he has a void I confess to you that because

I knew him he confesses to me close to ten two decades in a row

this man I really knew his life first hand really virtuous

man once praying and just before his death a few months ago

fell asleep he said the following praying and asking for the mercy of God and the

salvation of his soul they saw that there was a big staircase in front of him a ladder a

ladder as it is called here the ladder and he had to go up the ladder and

if he went up the ladder and reached the end there he was the kingdom of God was

heaven it was his entrance his exit from this world and

his entrance into the kingdom of God as presented in some frescoes

that are presented and the scale of John of Sinai

he made a struggle indeed and came up one step but with a lot of struggle with too

much struggle he sweated sweated toil struggled he came up a step came out

second came out third came out fourth he really reached in difficulty

great cut but he went up the next step again a lot of struggle he came out again and

the next step reached the penultimate reached the penultimate

he couldn't get out he was trying he was trying

he was trying he was going to get out the step was getting higher as I went to get out the step was getting

higher he burst out of his agony from his effort

he was drenched in sweat he couldn't get out the

step he started crying and praying and saying what am I going to do now

let's say I went up all the steps and keep it for me penultimate and he had a

last one who couldn't understand it well-well

what am I going to do, how am I going to get out of this well and he was begging God to tell him what is this

step and they were wondering

if I should do anything else in my life all the prayers the fasting the vigils the

rules I did everything I didn't leave anything

behind we did it and indeed he protected him very

much then a holy angel went next to him and hugged him and said what shall

I do he says to him I can't help him he says I can't help you you

lack the works of charity you have no pity and indeed

this man due to the fact that he was small and poor and had five children he was

thus seized by a human weakness and that he had money and that he

invested it in his children he did not do alms very few

things they settled his children very well with plots of land and

apartments he didn't do much to them he just needed his children but

he didn't do alms he did something fake things

let's say ok like we do with 2€ 5€ we also want proof and he will

use it well he will use it well and maybe he is a fraud and they took

my 2€ and we don't know what will become of them we buy bags of course we buy

thousands of euros shoes bags dresses and all the rest and

we don't care after all, they didn't have any works,

Lemostyftis

says there, only the Virgin can help you, only the Virgin can help you, call on

the name of the Virgin continuously, and they saw that indeed the last

step is the step of the Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary took him and

handed him over to Christ and fortunately he stayed for a few

more months in this life and he did what he could and we hope and believe

that if you contact me sir I want to say that selfless love

exceeds the nature of things Saint Chrysostom says somewhere if you give

alms to your relatives it is not alms that is if you give

your property your children what are you waiting for god to say ok

god is a natural work this is natural you are a father you are a mother who will

give your neck to your children if i help your father your mother

your sister your grandmother your grandfather i know these are natural works these

are not half charity charity is when you help the poor the stranger

the one who has no relation to you that which you have none let me in

introductory obligations or ties or anything else this is almsgiving

and we often see spiritual

people who, while they have a spiritual life, nevertheless have a dependence on

theirs on this, at the end of the day, their specialty,

as everyone understands it,

this is natural but it is not

perfect, perfect is something more

. their children or their grandchildren and he says father is

my son he is my grandson I say father he has 10 babies the sanctuary brought me

your grandson and your child the other babies what are yours what are yours the other

children why do you only bring me your son and your barren your other

babies what is it for you because you are a father and the church says we are fathers

fathers means I love it my son another as well as the other let's say like

my cousin or like my relative you bring all the children of the

sanctuary and say they are Kostas Nikolas Giannis Nikos and Nikos

is also my child ok I understand but no you prefer

your biological children what are the other children

they are not God's children and I don't want to say

that we should go beyond even the conditions of natural things this

finished love is above all is a love that spreads to everything to

everyone without exception you know we had a professor at the

university who taught us doctrine who asked us in an exam that we had

god loves the devil and we would answer no of course you love the devil

cut us all because the answer was god loves

the devil and in fact loves the devil as he loves the virgin without

any difference because if god loves the

devil less than that he loves the Virgin Mary means that God has

transitions and changes in his love. He loves others a little and others a lot. God

loves the devil who is the extreme of evil and the extreme of virtue

which is the Virgin Mary . He loves them

the same. There is no difference. Those who have

a difference are these two beings.

god to love another much and another little and therefore

it is not possible for the man of god to love another a little and just a lot

my son more my neighbor less my enemy not at all it is not possible

for man to function normally as love and finished love perfect

love if I do not love everyone completely