Do the dead hear and see us?

i and i are effects but not they ask god and god answers them or they ask

the angel and the angel tells them souls

see relatives here on earth this is doctrinally clarified souls see

what all those who are in the foretaste of

paradise see in the same way at the same time e

the purer the soul the holier the soul the

greater right it has before god to see saints not only

see but what else do they come down among us I repeat the purer

their souls are and the more righteous they are before

God the more they see and learn and

are informed these souls who do not have a great presence cannot see

continuously continuously no in which soul moments can souls see in the moments

that God allows which moments God allows in a

danger in a big problem the whole church is mobilized up there

is chaos the grandson dies cry run pray kneel the

anthropomorphic souls rise up the whole triumphant church

prays and we don't understand and we in the hospital outside the

operating theater start crying and think that god has abandoned us so they

not only see but also pray for us they pray because when

here on earth this is their joy to pray for others this is what

the the duty of prayer does not stop in the other life since it is

God's command to pray and there the souls pray but there in a different

way there they see God and pray because the condition is yes

there is love and how much they pray much more fervently much stronger with much

greater

ferocity in fact it is very characteristic it is mentioned in the martyrdom

of Saint Ignatius the Godbearer that when he testified the believers who

lost him wept and he was afraid for the martyrdom that they themselves would go through in the anti

not here where the earthquakes happened and were claimed, he says when they held

an all-night vigil kneeling with tears,

all the faithful in the church saw Saint Ignatius the God-bearer

standing on his knees while God's chair because chair and crying

begging God for his children who they were in danger of testifying that they would

be persecuted, so not only the saints are unconscious, but also the souls of the

sleeping ones, only the saints, not only the saints, how do we know this, the holy scripture says,

that is, they do not watch us and see us, only the a

is wrong to say this, listen to the saints, I mean those recognized by the

church or holy,

they can help us, how do we know this in the old testament in

On the second day

of Maccabees, the Israelites were going through a terrible danger, they would be exterminated in a day

and their leader, Judas the Maccabee, began to be anxious, he knelt down and began to

pray, and what did he see there, he says he saw the high priest who had died a short

time ago, the son who was not a saint, but it was a high priest who says

he raised up the prophet Jeremiah and the two of them prayed together for the people and the

holy city of Jerusalem, therefore, from heaven they are watching,

watching and helping not only the saints such as the prophet Jeremiah but also

the high priest

Sonia who is not a saint is not a

saint

. help your children

and yours Saint Gregory or says to the martyr Theodore

please be an ambassador from where you are for the country Saint Gregory the

theologian asks the hieromartyr Cyprian to supervise from above that is to

see observe and intervene but now there is the most

difficult question that we all ask can souls descend here on earth

and when do we have any hagiographic

testimony that some soul came down here to earth only as a soul not with the body in the

miracle of the transfiguration who did moses come from

where did he come from hell did he come so in the transfiguration we have said this again

we have our christ the three disciples moses who came from hell so

he expresses the space of the souls of the sleeping and helias who does not

he had died and he came from a different place than the place of the

angels so it happened once but we know if the saints are always there in the

middle state or they are near us more they are near us and less they are

above how do we know but he tells us and the apostle paul says this having

around us a cloud of witnesses what does this mean that the witnesses

therefore have a great presence in God they not only supervise from heaven what

is happening on earth but they are among us they

embrace us among us in our streets in our houses in our city is

this what it means peri texton he does not say that he is somewhere high and they see us the

sky oversees here you say he is an embrace with us and St.

Gregory the theologian in the epitaph that he makes to his friend the kingdom says listen

it impresses me I did not know he says that the kingdom in heaven

is praying for his people here he has not forsaken us ok correct, but

he also says something that I did not notice, he also says that

every day he comes in the evenings when I pray and

appears in front of me and gives me instructions on what to do for some problems

I am facing, I repeat the great king not only supervised, not only

saw, but appeared many nights, says Saint Gregory the theologian there

in the cell on the Heri River that was in his hermitage, maybe not in

Constantinople I don't think later, I think I don't remember exactly when

the great king fell asleep, however, he appeared with his soul in front of him and

it is certain that when the temple of Pelorios, the largest temple in

Greece, was being built, it might be in Aegina of Saint

Nektarios, some evenings, says some spiritual children of Saint Nektarios,

they saw the metropolitan of the late Hydra the Rose God to converse with Saint

Nektarios and Saint Nektarios to give advice and instructions to the metropolitan

hydra priest regarding the temple conclusion so far that the souls

have senses and see and hear since they are in the foretaste they see us and

not all represent us the same for us they descend and to our earth we will see when

they descend now but before we go to that let us ask something else the sinful

souls who are in the foretaste of of hell in hell they can come down

to earth they can not alone in exceptional cases rarely when

god wants to give a message to people he allows even hellish

souls to appear to help all of us in penance we have in the

communion of saints in the old age countless such cases of

hellish people who suffer terribly and god allows them to come down and

appear to help the rest of us understand how horrible

the situation in hell is and in order not to do the same to us,

the example of Saint Jacob Tsaliki is very typical, we have said it before if

you remember who, at the time he

was commemorating in the procession, he saw souls not only of saints and

sessions who were crying out, he says, mercy, mercy, mercy,

they were begging, and I, he says, I was overwhelmed, he says, I could not

bear to see them crying, begging, crying out for

mercy, let's go now to our last point now is a bit difficult this I want you to

pay attention to soon it will be done in 5 minutes but I want

your attention a little bit when the souls of the

dead will descend to the earth sometimes that

God knows but especially there is some place and space that the souls

acquire the right to descend to the earth who

is this place and who is this space what is this time

it is the time of the divine liturgy because the divine liturgy

is also performed in favor of all the above fathers and brothers and lop we said

another time and you remember that in the divine worship man comes out of the present,

out of the place out of space and time, and the souls of the

sleeping ones out of their own place and space and time, and the angels

out of their own place, manner and time, therefore we have three kinds of nature

living and dead, all of whom these three

natures come out of their own present and go to heaven and to the ages

of the centuries, that is, in the church because we are all united through the divine

liturgy with our Christ who has no space and time for this

exactly forgive me in the divine worship and we have the right to

leave the present to go to Golgotha ​​to go to Bethlehem to go to the

resurrection to the ascension to go also in the future to the second presence of Christ

in the worship therefore says the priest and all the simas and those born of the

cross of the tomb knock of the three day resurrection of the right-hand chair of the

second and how says in the glory of Christ's presence these are

born in the church because in the divine liturgy both the people and the

living and the angels come out of our own present and

enter into the non-present in the eternal outside of time they come out of time and

place and matter understanding and between us for this precisely

in the divine liturgy this did not beg and

Christ says I want everyone to be together they are all one

just as we are in one esmen this is our lord's request that we all be

together in divine worship so this is our lord's desire is coming

true we are angels and comenias alive through our communion with

christ all together and at that time they see us grandma grandpa father sees us

when we light a candle they feel great joy they see our life

they see our situation

god reveals it to them great rest they feel joy very great benefit and we become

one in the church like the transfiguration of Christ all became one three times

three places three natures became one like this and we say and the half trembling

we also become one with those who are asleep and we must strive for it he says this

as among us the trembling says the hymn the professor we who still live on earth

with the divine thanksgiving seek to become one so he says we must

we hasten to become one with those who are in the triumphant church and

how does this happen when we are united with Christ and at that time an

altar a liturgy of both heaven and earth and indeed now

see d it is shocking this says apocalypse and at that time he says that

the divine liturgy is done the souls of the martyrs in heaven plead with

God and you are called Lord why endure what is happening down on earth how long

you put up with people's crap run to help we spilled our blood for

you do something for our children do something for our people you see what a terrible

thing we experience every time in the divine service and we don't get

any news that's why many saints and even lay people report

that when sometimes we forget to pray for some of our own

he used to say this and the old paisius says sometimes I forget someone of mine

and he appeared to me once my relative and he told me the others

he mentioned all of them today in the liturgy in your prayer and me he didn't

mention me because I think this has also happened to you sometimes

in conclusion brothers in divine worship

this unity is not imaginary we give the right to their souls

and they come down to a divine liturgy in an altar to

see us hear us celebrate because we are also next to them now

these things you will say we will live them in the next zd no matter how much they say now, we won't feel it

the next day, we will understand it, and in fact when we

die, our relatives will reveal to us when we were in danger,

when we had difficulties, what they did for us, the grandmother, the father, the mother will tell us,

you know my child, when your child was in danger with the car, they

woke up all my friends, my acquaintances, the saints of my city,

the saints that I knew thousands came for you we guided the

doctor's hand to do the operation correctly and the child s we

will learn things that here seem unknown to us we think that

they happen by chance a church a prayer a communion a hug all of us

saints when we say saint we said in quotation marks all the souls that are on the verge of

heaven this concept changes not only our lives but also the life of

our country we have countless testimonies from

newly enlightened Christians of Turkey, how does the great-grandmother

who was an Orthodox Christian appear to them and say to them, my boy, become an Orthodox

Christian, these are our sayings, this is our past, now in the

earthquakes the Virgin appeared she gave water and food to one child

the holy month appeared to another one we are all one unity we are all not

something distant to live this this we were all alive before we were asleep

our holy fathers are all involved in our lives they know our difficulties and

our personal and our national and everyone so first of all let's not

forget them because when we die and we will say our children forgot us yes

but even now we don't remember them when he has a memorial service in the church what

do we do more they leave he tells you now what's nice he's not yours

and cominea and for yours at that time it's a terrible thing

i.e. we don't care at all we're only concerned with our mother our

father so let's not forget them and finally be ready we don't know

what time god will take us but what we know is that with as much

receptivity we will die with such recklessness we condemn ourselves to be

seen by God or not, that is, if we are not clean, we can be saved, but

we will be the last ones there, and we will be forever and ever, no, this needs

to be explained another time, there is no progress, we will be everywhere from a starting point

, we will not have a big part of God's eyes, they see us, so the dead

love us very much at this time, they may see us and everyone, you don't know, and be

happy that we are talking about them, not them we forget to love them,

to pray and to be ready for the

terrible judgment day