Father Paisios about the curse

 - The curse catches when there is injustice in the middle of it. If, for example, someone

mocks a wounded woman or does something bad to her and the wounded man swears at her,

her family goes. That's when I hurt someone and he curses me, his curses start.

God allows it and it works, as it allows, for example, to kill someone else. But when

there is no injustice, then the curse returns to the one who gave it.

- And how does one get rid of the curse?

- With repentance and confession. I have in my mind many cases, people who were cursed

when they realized that they had been cursed because they were guilty, repented, confessed,

and settled.

If the one who was to blame went: "God, I did this and that, forgive me ..." and confesses

with pain and sincerity, then God will forgive him, he is God.

- And he is the only one who accepts the curse that is punished or the one who accepts the

curse. who gives it

- He who accepts the curse is tortured in this life. But he who is cursed is tormented

in this life and in the next because as a criminal he will be punished there by God

unless he repents and confesses.

Because, okay, someone may have hurt you, but you with the curse you give is like taking

a pistol and killing him. By what right do you do this? Whatever the other person did

to you, you have no right to kill him.

To be cursed is to be bad. A man swears when he says it with passion, with indignation.

A curse, when it comes from a righteous man, has great power, especially the curse of the

widow. I remember an old woman had a pony and put it on the edge of the forest to graze.

As it was a little hard, he had found a strong rope and tied it. Once three women went to

the forest to cut wood. One was rich, one was a widow, and the other an orphan and very

poor.

They saw the horse that was tied with the rope and was grazing and they said: "Shall

we not take the rope to tie the wood?". They cut it in three and each took a piece to tie

his bundles.

Next was for the horse to go. When the old woman came and did not find the animal, she

became indignant. He started looking for it everywhere and made a great effort to find

it.

Finally, when she found it, she said indignantly, "Let the one who took it to be carried away

by the rope itself." One day, the rich man's brother joked with a gun thinking it was empty

- it was one of the things the Italians left behind - and hit his sister in the throat.

They had to take her to the hospital and they needed a rope to tie her to a wooden ladder.

At that time they found a piece of rope, the stolen one, but it was not enough.

The other two neighbors brought their own stolen pieces and tied her to the stairs and

transported her to the hospital.

Thus was fulfilled the curse of the old woman, "To carry her with the same rope". And finally,

the poor woman died, may God rest her soul. You see, the curse worked on the rich woman,

who had no financial need. The others had their poverty, they had some mitigating conditions.

Diseases and accidents caused by the curse

Many diseases that doctors can not know what they come from, can come from a curse. What

do doctors find the curse? I was once brought to Calvi by a paralytic. An entire man could

not sit. His body was stretched like wood.

A man carried him on his back and another held him from behind. I put two logs on him

and the poor man leaned on them a little. The people who were with him tell me: "He

has been in this state since he was fifteen and eighteen years have passed since then."

"But how on earth could he have suffered this?" I said. He can not, something is happening.

"I looked here and there and found that someone had cursed him. What had happened?

An old priest and an old man entered a stop and stood next to him. Then someone said to

him: "Get up, let the old people sit down". He stretched even more in the seat, ignoring

it.

Then the little old man standing there said to him, "Stretch and you can never sit down."

And the curse was lifted. You see, the young man was cheeky. He tells you: "Why to get

up when I have paid for the position?"

Yes, but the other one paid and he is old, respectful, and he stands and you are a boy,

fifteen years old, and you sit. "That's it," I say. "Look to repent, he wants repentance

to be well." The poor man, as soon as he understood a little and recognized it, immediately sat

down.