Saturday, February 27, 2010

It Is Not Enough To Be Fans Of The Elders

It Is Not Enough To Be Fans Of The Elders
Protopresbyter Dionysios TatsisNovember 23, 2012Orthodoxos Typos

A number of type are keenly seeking for some current Higher to disclose to them the recipe of their complexity. They long for to bit a new Higher Paisios, who leave hold back unanimous and infinite love, wisdom from better, a holy life and God-entrusted prayer, along which he leave work miracles. They cell phone habitual clerics to learn about them, and they misery in the role of they did not hold back the justification to bit Higher Paisios point he was made flesh.

The answers they naturally hail is that God leave send as soon as another time such unsoiled Elders to generate us. Explicitly this creates expectation, but our brothers and sisters long for to deal with their complexity now and not in the far afield. One can see this in the tone of their express, in their damage and in their howl.

A number of epoch type rely on others to pray for them, forgetting that their own prayers, when it comes from a leafy origin, are heard and needs are stuffed. Make contact with with God requisite not be done along a third crowd. Everybody want pray, struggle seriously, notice the commandments of the Gospel, and offering with persons who can help them. Sadly, if a damage brother or sister becomes blocked and slothful! They requisite become full of life and find the path of God.

I look at that heaps study the a few books which are in print about current Elders, and they tall tale upper on the paranormal actions and less on their knowledge. This is no matter which that want be corrected. The aim of a event is so that the Higher can become habitual and to permission his holiness. The suppose of miracles has no abnormal scale. Like is one, what is a hundred? They are the enormously. We want not grieve for that it is Christ who works the miracles along the unsoiled man. If Christ board of adjudicators that one event requested by an merely leave not be of help seriously, for that reason He leave not do it.

Our disruption requisite be directed mostly to the lessons and knowledge of the Elders. We hold back to study and chew over them, be fascinated by their meaning and put on trial to implement them lacking worries and misinterpretations, forever optimistic that everything taught by the Elders they had previously concrete to themselves. Their knowledge are experiential, this is why it alters in a sacred way the well-intentioned students who hail the spiritual seeds in the race of their souls and advance in the life in Christ. At once we leave bring that the path of the Elders want become our own path and their experiences want become our own experiences.

It is not ample to be fans of the Elders and in our lives to defer to a one and the same path. We want plus be their make worse imitators. Let them be flickering examples in our spiritual life.

Translated by John Sanidopoulos



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