Morphou Neophytos- Why doesn't everyone get a miracle?

 

Because, my daughter, the purpose of our life is not the 50, the 60 - 70, the 100 years and the health of our body.

It’s the eternal life!

Fr. Georges Florovsky, the greatest of the academic theologians of the 20th century, said that,

“A great failure of the Orthodox archpriests and priests is that they do not talk about the eternal life and repentance.”

So, the uneducated, the non-catechized Christian says, “Here is life. Everything else is fairytales.”

Although every day the Saints intercede with miracles, he says, “We do not have proof.”

You are to receive the Holy Communion and you hear the priest saying,

“The servant of God, Natasa, partakes of the Body and Blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.”

he Divine Liturgy speaks! Who interprets it, though, right? Here is a task for the next Archbishop.

Firstly, [interpret it] to the priests and [then] the priests to the people.

I tell you that this is a higher task than financial self-sufficiency [of the Church].

There are the mistakes of the old Archbishops who thought that money, hotels, student dorms, sandwiches are enough.

My child, here we have eternal life. We hold it in our hands. Body and Blood of Christ. This is the eternal life.

The people of Cyprus want it, ask for it but you must help him believe more -- [especially], when the disease comes,

when the earthquake comes, when the liberation of Cyprus comes which is arriving through other itineraries

and not through negotiations which right-wing and left-wing of Cyprus desire.

[Natasa] Will the Turks leave? When?

[Morphou] Surely, they will leave. When the Kurds create their state.

[Natasa] It takes a while.

[Morphou] Yes, because our repentance takes a while.

Thus, many people will not be cured by various incurable diseases or by the vaccines,

either because they do not repent, or because God wants to receive them already in the eternal life

for them to enjoy there the Trisagion [«Τρισάγιο» in Greek] Light which is full of information.

[Natasa] So, for those died, their time had come? [Morphou] Each one in his own time.

But the time has come not for them to die, but to live eternally. The question is, “Where are we headed after death?”