This passage reflects the spiritual experiences and visions described by Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, highlighting the deep connection between liturgical practice and the spiritual world in Orthodox Christianity.

**Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou:**

I told a specific priest, who serves in a small community with few inhabitants, to start the Forty Liturgies of Christmas.

And the good priest says to me:

"But, Your Eminence, our village has few residents, and we don’t have regular chanters; how can I do the Forty Liturgies?"

"Have a woman," I told him, "say 'Lord, have mercy,' 'Amen,' and 'Grant, O Lord...'."

Indeed, this priest began the Forty Liturgies four years ago.

In the third year, during the Christmas period, he came to me moved and said:

"Thank you for making me do the Forty Liturgies, because you caused the Divine Liturgy to become not just 'auditory' for me.

He even found chanters, and it became not just reading prayers, not just a reading, but it also became visible. I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Lord, have mercy," I said to him. "What did you see?"

And he said to me:

"In the morning, I commemorated 2,000 names in my Proskomedia and started the Liturgy. 

At the moment when I said, 'Especially for our most holy, pure, blessed, and glorious Lady, Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary,' and the chanter began to chant 'It is truly meet to bless you, O Theotokos,' the sanctuary, which you know is very small, began to open up, until it became a vast grandstand.

On this, I saw standing all those whom I had commemorated in the Proskomedia.

There were also people whom I had buried in recent years, but also people from other villages whom I knew and have in my diptychs.

In fact, I could see the disposition of each one. Some I saw radiant, others sorrowful, some dark, others gray.

There was also a certain one, who died of cancer at a very young age a few years ago, and he was so bright that he radiated light even to those around him.

Addressing all these whom I saw, I quietly asked so the chanter outside wouldn't hear:

'What do you want?'

And they all slightly bowed and said to me:

'Thank you, Father!' and they left."