Let's move on to something more personal. We are commemorating our deceased, and I hear from hierarchs.
He says the commemoration is more for the living.
Pay attention now. So that they can be consoled, so that they can have a prayer for their loved ones who have left this world.
When we started talking about various experiences, pay attention to what word it is, uh, experiences of Saint James, Saint Eumenios, who at that time were not officially ranked with the Saints, uh, our elders. And we used to say that Saint James, while commemorating the names of thousands, saw the souls next to him, and he saw others in the light, and he saw others in a state of darkness.
He saw others suffering, and he saw others happy.
When Macarius the Third of Cyprus appeared to him once, he saw him in a light; he saw him in a light dressed in his archaic robe. It seemed that Macarius was saved.
Well, Saint Eumenios told us similar experiences. When he went to commemorate a Catholic who was extremely philanthropic, the Catholic Raoul Folero. This great humanist who defended the rights of lepers at a time when lepers were considered outcasts of society. When he went to commemorate him out of compassion, out of love, out of obligation because Saint Eumenios was once a leper, and this French humanist supported them.
His angel because they cleansed the eyes of both the body and the soul of Saint Eumenios saw his angel while he was commemorating.
And as he took out the portion and put it in the tray, the angel took it out of the tray. The old man, like a critical young man, grabbed the portion and put it back.
The angel grabbed the portion again and took it out, and Saint Sevemos turned around, offended and says to him, "Here you are taking the portion out."
He helped us. He tells him, "He helped you, my father. Keep him in your prayers, in your rosary, in the supplications outside the holy altar."
Here, he tells him, "In the divine liturgy, those who are members of the church, of the divine-human body, are commemorated."
Then I spoke about my father who fell asleep when I was eight years old, about my brother Peter, when I was twelve years old, a suffering child. Well, I was orphaned, and I said that my pain to Saint James, to Saint Eumenios, to Saint Paisios, and they told me to pray for Peter, to pray for your father, Nicholas.
Your father is in a good place. Peter had a few problems, and now he is slowly ascending to the light, and the saints tell you this.
Not Grandma Katigo. Well, you understand that there is an eternal life full of light and some are high in the light, others are in a middle state, and others are below. But while they themselves cannot repent in the void and in repentance, we can help them with our services, our alms, our prayers to ascend from darkness to light.
But the Orthodox faith is a prerequisite for this ascent. We say this.
The archpriests tell me. You believe the saints live, sir. Pay attention to it.
Since Saint John of Damascus also says, I was told by someone with a high position in the church that the deceased receive a light consolation. That is, a relief of consolation with our prayers. What is it that you are describing?
What will we do? The purgatory of the Latins tells me.
Well, we understand that among Orthodox bishops there is consolation.
Why? Why have I not come into contact with saints? Understand why we must hear above all and from everyone and from the councils what the saints say and indeed see what the saints agree on where there is agreement of the fathers. Eh
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