it's impossible to convince people
- to believe when they don't want to
They don't want people to believe what you want them to believe.
Tell him to convince me, even convince me, he says.
Whatever you tell
I don't want to believe he says
and you leave the man and you say
# You go your way #
He who wants
s to believe believes.
at the slightest thing and ev
everything that
that moves beside him.
he sees a miracle
What he sees beside him is a mira
cle
huge
and it pleas
es God because the
everything move
s under the gaze of our god
they remain in
mind because they want
to
ignore
they are
in
ignorance because they like it
to
ign
ore they don't want to know
and
they are stubborn to be in ignorance
and t
hey do not know because they are not interested
d
they don't
want to know
how many and how m
any of my brothers
the speakers an
d you call them, my child.
there is preach
king
Come and listen and be saved.
I don't care, he said
ys I know everything.
Ev
everything is the all-knowing ones
They
know about the holy scriptures. They know
about
everything
love your little children, my
child.
to hear a few words to save yours
lf.
He says.
You're in ignorance. I
insist, he says to ignore.
Her ignore
none of us is cle
early not.
a
and cannot be blamed.
as an excuse.
or
for any sin.
however ignorant you may
be.
and s
in, think not that you
u will
that you are excused b
because you are ignorant.
ignorance k
ills a man.
into which
they were drawn because of
it.
and lost eternal life.
And
when they crucified the Lord, t
hey did not know that
that the one they were cr
unifying was Christ.
th
e word is used in the sense in which
in th
e sense in which it is
then understood by many people.
that is, not only will t
he earth be destroyed but
but also the heavens
as they already appear to us.
will be
changed and transformed.
all things will be changed and alte
red when the end of this
of this world everything
will change.
and the present heavens and earth thro
ugh the
by this commanding word o
f God,
saved and preserved by the fire.
and preserved for the day
of judgment.
which shall be the day o
f the destruction of the
the wicked men shall
be
will be destroyed when the se
cond day of the
the second co
ming of Christ.
and they will
they will
burn everything
they will burn everything with fi
re
heaven and earth and
the universes that we see
will be destroyed
to
the day the existing ones
before
the flood
people
le
Those who lived then an
d those who live today do not.
belie
ve it
...in contrast to the eternity of God...
t
he impatience of
man which
...he indicates
s with the expectation
of the second...
presence
there are those that exist
an
d we see
impact
ient man
he says there is no second co
ming as there is no
there is no
God
the meaning of the phrase
the presence is near
I
t can co
me tomorrow.
but tomorrow,
through Go
d may come.
I
t is a thousand years, my brothers and sisters. A thousand year
s as one day.
What does this mean? This had to be
come one.
a request to
an ascetic.
I have told you before,
those of you who know it.
You will hear it again.
In the monastery he was ill
rate.
The man
He read
his law psalms and a
already it is that
it is c
called a psalm
A thousand years as one day
a thousand
d years as one day
what
What does this mean?
And he was trying to
find t
he answers all by himself.
to interpret what th
e holy scripture says
s.
But he could not and was
called upon
constantly
one da
y when his church was
s struck
and they arrived at the monastery
and finished
d the divine service.
as he was alone there
he sees inside the church is a
a beau
tiful eagl
e.
who was going back into the chur
ch?
and the eagle was coming towar
ds him and
he raised his hand to
touch him but
the year
he was leaving towards the ex
it of the church.
a
and he would follow to catch him.
the
eagle would walk out of the monastery a
nd
and left behind the monastery
a
a huge forest.
He was following this eagle and he want
ed to be
so beautiful.
so much so t
the hat he wanted to catch it and he didn't
he cou
didn't
and he kept dragging him along
.
so when he go
t close in the middle of it
the eagle climbed up
on a
a tree
an
d started to sing.
Who? The eagle.
It was such a beau
tiful chirp
anyway.
that he stayed and watc
hed him.
Finally, in a moment, it was over
r.
When he finished he opened
ned hi
s eyes to me.
and he
sees that he was in the middle of the forest he says
but I
I was in the monastery no
w how am I here?
And he turns from
there and goes and
he gets to the monastery
to go inside.
and there he finds a guard and says to him.
Who are
you? Where are you going?
He tells him I'm
from his brotherhood.
of the monastery
ry
Your name.
I don't know you.
He says I
left here a while ago. He says he's going.
to the abbot.
and searches the boo
ks of the monastery.
and he sees that a
thousand years ago there
was this.
this mon
mastery and this name.
and then he
closed his eyes and
solved it.
th
e mystery of a thousand years as an hour
as one day
Yes, my brothers, these things are before o
ur, God.
which only
embrace thos
e who believe in God.
those who do not believe
eve do not even admit it...
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