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