Father Savvas

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

s

and you leave the man and you say

# You go your way #

He who want

s to believe believes.

at the slightest thing and ev

erything 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 intereste

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 preac

hing

Come and listen and be saved.

I don't care, he sa

ys I know everything.

Ev

erything is the all-knowing ones

They

know about the holy scriptures. They kno

w about

everything

M

ove your little children, my

child.

to hear a few words to save yourse

lf.

He says.

You're in ignorance. I

insist, he says to ignore.

Her ignora

nce of us is cle

arly not.

a

nd cannot be blamed.

as an excuse.

or

for any sin.

however ignorant you may

be.

and s

in, think not that yo

u will

that you are excused b

ecause 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

ucifying 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 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

day the existing ones

before

the flood

peop

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 indicate

s with the expectation

of the second...

presence

there are those that exist

an

d we see

impat

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 th

is mean? This had 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 illit

erate.

The man

He read

his law psalms and a

lready it is that

it is c

alled a psalm

A thousand years as one day

a thousan

d years as one day

what

does this mean?

And he was trying to

find t

he answer all by himself.

to interpret what th

e holy scripture say

s.

But he could not and was

called upon

constantly

one da

y when his church wa

s struck

and they arrived at the monastery

and finishe

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

nd he would follow to catch him.

the

eagle would walk out of the monastery a

nd

and left and behind the monastery

a

a huge forest.

He was following this eagle and he want

ed to be

so beautiful.

so much so t

hat he wanted to catch it and he didn't

he cou

ldn'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 ove

r.

When he finished he ope

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 monaste

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

astery 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 beli

eve do not even admit it...