Your Reverence Good morning Welcome I am glad to be with you again
in our martyred Cyprus and thank you that every time you submit to us
here in the Diocese of Morphou with your open heart I praise God that we have an
open heart I wish it to be filled with Christ I dared to say our Cyprus
even though I once came to this country as a foreigner and
worked here 8 years ago This period it marked my loving calling
as well as my youth However, returning forever to Romania
this drink remained in my heart If someone were to tell me to describe
Cyprus with three elements I would say the water rose the portrait of the blessed and
the martyred voice of the metropolitan Morfo Many times I told us how in
your childhood you had experienced death three times I would
very much ask you to turn back time and you present how Cyprus was suffering
in those years and how you perceived the blessed through
the eyes of a child refugee from the upper life. As I have said before,
I lived my first 12 years in the paradise of my village and that's how
I felt that it is my village, that it is a paradise that
had the church of the Archangel Michael in its center and by good circumstances
our house the house where I was born which now the barbaric
foreigners step on it, it was next to the church And also in a great blessing
my family my father especially my mother and my grandmother the myrofora were people of great ecclesiastical faith
patience and life And all this they passed on to us
their children Another blessing I had was that I was the youngest of the family
I had five other brothers ahead of me in old
age and so I gained the experience of these
big brothers their love and even though
my childhood was hurt enough at the age of eight by the sudden death of my father Nikolas E the
paradise of the village did not stop inspiring me
renewing me comforting me for this death I remember that even after
my father's death I had joy in me I don't know where this
joy came from I mean I had a happy vision of the world I saw the world beautiful
I think that joy was the regular divine services I went to
and the vespers and the fact that I was living a natural life
Something that today's children have neither one nor the other That is, we had an orchard with orange trees we had hens
and chickens as they are called now Well we went to the
orchards we had melons and watermelons In the
summers because they were orchards they were at a great distance my older brothers had
to build big huts and stay there for two months We used
to go with my mother to get them some food to
eat. And I also stayed with them for a few days. And that was a life like the
monks who live in a hermitage. Those who leave the convent and go
to the hermitage and live a life close to the rhythms of nature
. Without big plans, with simplicity. These were the years until I
was 12. we became refugees then I felt that we lost the paradise of our village
I mean everyone Cyprus for me was my village and it wasn't just for me Cypriots back then didn't have many
cars to run all over Cyprus and then planes to go
all over the world for holidays The people were
bio-wrestlers who loved the land The sea was 10
km away from us Only one of my brothers went scuba diving
Everyone the rest lived far from the sea. You realize that he was something unique.
In other words, man became
one with the land. When this land was
suddenly taken by the Turks in one day, and by difficult providence and
circumstances , my brother Petros was killed in the war.
paradise That is, I felt then what
Adam felt when he was taken out of Paradise and he was taken out of
Paradise because he himself did not manage to live in paradise with
God's will. Something similar also happened to the
Cypriots at the time. Anyway, and since then I grew up with these things
traumas looking to find a father While you see when I was in the village I don't feel the absence of the
father When I left the village because I didn't breathe this
village paradise his energies his joys with his functions his church
life his communal life Then the three wounds in front of me
seemed huge like three hestias I was looking for a father to cover my psychological gaps
I found in the face of Saint James of
Tsalikis I was looking to find a community
E high and low we found a parish in Athens Saint Gerasimos in
Ilisia where what did this parish have good priests who loved the
services every day Daily morning afternoon Morning
afternoon and many vigils So if I really became
a fanatic of the vigils Well then when I looked to see
why I became such a fanatic about the vigils, was this the search
for
a lost
childhood paradise, and this paradise now took on
a different flavor with a more spiritual flavor in the divine liturgy and the services and
the vigil . that there you can only
make certain friendships with people who are compatible with you, but
even these friendships are based not on the life of
Christ but on ideas And I understood that with ideas you cannot
live It is something imaginary While Christ is something
very real As Saint Orphyrios also said, the feeling or the grace,
that is, the energy of Christ is palpable You feel it
I feel this energy When I entered the community of parish there of
Agios Gerasimos when I started going to Oso David to Agios Oros to Agios
Porphyrios to Agios Paisios to ordinary people I began to feel the
holiness of my mother took care of my grandmother with the truth of our family which had no hypocrisy So we had
an uprightness a freedom to be ourselves That is to say I began to appreciate things that in adolescence I didn't
appreciate them So Praise God If you ask me now that I have become
62 of these wounds which were healed and which were not
The death of my father and my brother The two big wounds were completely healed Completely because now I know that they rejoice in the eternal
life of Christ They are living So the one I thought died
was a delusion But your village But my village is missing Yesterday we were in of the transformation of the Savior in the occupied
morpho I felt the paradise lost there
I mean I don't know how those who live in modernized cities manage I remain a villager
I declare it This saint of Crete once told me I don't know if you know her
Galaktia says the morphou says he is an educated villager
So when you are a villager you look for your village Archbishop Makarios remains without a doubt the central political figure
of this country as the president of the country and as the president of the
synod of the church there were hierarchs who criticized him for
the inconsistency of his heretical judgment in relation I know to the political career
You are an expert in canon law but you also destroyed the civil law
But above all you elder belong to the spiritual family of many
contemporary saints as you read the canons from long ago the spiritual light of the
church and the work of God in world Does Makarios, Your Reverence, violate
the rules when he became the president of Cyprus? For a moment, he violated
the rules of the ecumenical companions that prohibit a cleric from
obtaining an office of this world. But he was the first or the last
human hierarch who violated a rule. We can say here that
the church itself, the whole church, the governing church, the patriarchate and the hierarchs of Cyprus
from the moment he became president of the republic the archbishop of Cyprus
Makarios II and they began to send him congratulatory letters to come and
work with him the patriarch of Romania the Archbishop of Athens O
patriarch of Serbia Let's remember the patriarch of Russia Let the Blessed One go
The three metropolitans who later envied him and envied him and
worked with him They made it a ritual As soon as it becomes
a ritual the irregularity is cured As a virtuous holy
man who lives somewhere hidden told me He always tells the church
there is something he says that is not according to the rules
But we can't let's do it according to this rule The abnormal never becomes a rule For him and I said from the beginning He was abnormal in the
beginning But then he has mechanisms That's what the Orthodox church told me has
healing mechanisms How about your body yours mine there is a hospital that when
you get sick you go and it heals you And in the same way the
church has it And who is this way The divine liturgy is the divine liturgy There it is revealed Who is normal
who is everything unorthodox What should I say? O Kiev, the
waterman is the normal one. The epiphany is
unorthodox. Where does this appear in the Divine Liturgy? Who do I remember and who don't I remember? Well, the blessed one was remembered
by everyone. You understood what I want to say. This is at the level of normality, now at the level of the great family of Saints. As
you mentioned it well, father, you are not impressed by all the modern saints,
at least the ones that I have met. and from what it seems they are the leaders of the
Greek sanctity and everyone loved Makarion and
saw him as the canonical bishop of Cyprus, the archbishop of Cyprus. Saint
James saw him even after his death when he was commemorating him in the divine
liturgy in a light wearing all his ancient vestments and
Saint James gave him a portion of the intention When I asked him
Saint Iakou himself told
me, but Makarios was
saved . Of course
, because he forgave easily
,
he did n't hold
grudges .
Emmanuel, whose mother Sarah was the daughter of the first pope of
Uganda, thoughts from those who were baptized by Makarios, that is, his grandfather married a Greek in Greece
and the grandson has now become an athlete of the Olympic Games and makes his cross in Orthodoxy. So, what is your name
, Emmanuel? Why are you called Emmanuel? My grandfather is one of its first priests.
ukantos African priests All that is due to a
blessed man Who did not keep the glory that God gave him and the people of Cyprus
to himself He took it to the most pained to the most humble to the least brothers of Africa We made
the priestly school all these priests who studied The priestly school
of Archbishop Makarios the Third Kenya He had a vision that is the man Not
only for Cyprus for Orthodoxy Well Saint James told you he
saw him alive Saint Sophronius when
they asked him he said whoever fights Makarios fights Cyprus Cyprus
is Makarios and Makarios is Cyprus Saint Porphyrios said
this First of all few people know that Makarios when he was a deacon in Athens
had Porphyrios the Saint as his spiritual Porphyrio He says he had such a great love for Cyprus that if
the Turks arrest him now he is ready to testify E sorry A the other one and St. Paisios was perhaps the most cruel in
his opinion He says now that the three
metropolitans became the cause of a coup d'état the Turks should rise and take half of Cyprus and the churches would remain
non-Turkish so many dead so many refugees It's better He says about an irregularity of the
blessed one that they invoked after the fact How bad I came
So the blessed one for Cyprus is this I'm glad you understood it There are Cypriots who haven't realized what you felt Maybe
because we live the ideas It's very important father that you fly out of yourself
you should also love people and try to put them in
the people's shoes. Even those who made mistakes. Like the three metropolitans.
You know that out of the three metropolitans, they didn't want the Macarion
and
the holy one, the handsome one
. the
mistakes I make and the blessed And I tell him what is your biggest mistake old man you told me in Cypriot I don't know how to
translate it The ginati The stubbornness The stubbornness that is
You understood in some aspects So if it is important to remove the ideas to love the persons to
understand them because in those times they had these
attitudes to forgive them and move on
This summer our old man has sympathized 50 years since the occupation
of northern Cyprus Yes Going back and seeing the Cypriot tragedy of
1974 What should today's Europe have learned
Your Honor
far from ideas, ideologies whether they are right-wing nationalism that is
or left-wing such as Marxism, Europe is now
collecting and will collect another one the consequences of its sin that for 1000 years not
100000 he expelled the Christ and said to him "We don't need you,
go away" Dos Tostoevsky describes this very well to the Great
Inquisitor to the Karamazov brothers Go away they told him of Christ
We have your representative on earth the Pope we don't need you You didn't
do your job well as God We will make institutions
universities hospitals We will cure human pain with our own means What to do with you you Get out of
my life they expelled Christ and made scholastic
philosophies I then apostatized from I made
medieval feudalisms They expelled Christ from their lives And of course as the quantum physicists also say nature is afraid of the
void Nothing is ever left empty The void that was left in Europe came to be
filled first by Freemasonry Freemasonry
especially in France and England and then Atheism the philosophical
Atheism How long will the poor Western Europeans stay and in
Eastern Europe become the experiment of the leftist experiment E again atheism in
essence again Masonry in disguise And
now the world is looking and searching to fill this void of atheism
E this void to be filled by the European Union in
order to the one that they tried to apply to the European countries should
make it global The new order
of things But they need working hands Where can we find active hands since Europe no longer has
children with its atheistic ideas Well then they brought the old slaves
from the colonies Every country in Europe has its own slaves In
Africa in Asia in the South in South America
So now what is happening now they are all living in chaos that the Europeans came to fools who
beat them they thought they would be assimilated Islam is assimilated
Africa is assimilated E Latin America that is full of magic Tell me they all came
with their idols with their religion their magic And now we have the colonial revolution
in mother Europe All this will lead to a world
chaos that the new order wants very much
She is instigating the chaos and they did the great experiment
with the vaccine and they saw that it was a great success
But God also has his plan And God's plan it seems now
is starting to unfold The whole world understands that Europe
is falling apart and our Romanian brothers must also understand this Don't invest much in Europe and in general in the Western world
It is a world that talks to the devil with
satanism This world has proven it both with vaccine how easily
was vaccinated E a vaccine which was not tested by science
E and now its side effects have filled the world with diseases sudden
deaths and then again because many of us do not admit what the
Morphou and others
God's providence gives us other opportunities first with the Eurovision of the
song contests that It is a satanic cult and now with the
Olympics so that just what did the Olympic games in
Paris dare to do to make a mockery of the divine liturgy the
secret supper with the one who is our food
who is our life of the orthodox and the one who did it knew very
good theology Someone dictated it to him someone told him Probably not like that This is how I should do This
is the situation now and we are waiting for the war which starts from what seems to be not from Ukraine the great war but from the Middle East It is
a plan of God since people in peace have not succeeded in getting to
know him To get to know him Let us pay attention to this word Yes That is to know the
truth of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of the triune God He
tells you since you did not understand good with peace and you wanted to make western europe your paradise now
heaven is becoming hell with chaos and the great war is coming and those of us
who are left alive so far let's put an anotelia
like today elder that our society is attacked by gender ideologies with
transhumanism then ate shouldn't the orthodox church impose itself through
a political speech fighting for
normality look first my father let's not worry about the politicization of
Makarios, the voice of the church. Yes, that is, we
should not
expect
that someone from the church should become a politician to apply the Gospel.
This is a mistake. Yes, Makarios did not become a politician to apply the Gospel.
He became a politician to save Cyprus. he learned to forgive. He loved his people
like a young Moses of Cyprus, and this love was
also transferred to Africa. So in essence, the
church leaders, the bishops, that is, we should use
whatever power and
reputation we have to make known the truth of Christ,
especially using modern technology, to as
many people as possible, to as many people as possible. we
analyze the problems of the world, but we will not expect that we will give the
solutions
to the
world. We will
give the divine
service
. psalter with a
liturgy with a few people around you who will help you for the liturgy until the wrath of
God has passed. Now we have come to the time of God's wrath.
Anyone who does not understand this and is now looking for solutions to various problems, whether
social, political or even ecclesiastical, yes, I think he is deeply
open. He still does not have freedom from ideologies.
either of corruption I tell you
a fire is coming gather in your parishes in
your monasteries in your home What are you looking for these He wouldn't He wouldn't have Makaros
was a man of an era He was a man of an era especially for
Cyprus Only for Cyprus Only for Cyprus He was the last Byzantine emperor The last Byzantine
emperor was not Constantine Palaiologos Was Makarios in Cyprus the European Union or the
Russian reality either the national territories of
Romania which during Sosovo changed the borders
Well we say now the clearing the solutions my father will not come through
statements I will not give them either It is a mercy to expect me to give me a solution No, war will give me that How many
times do I have to say it Unfortunately you have come in the month of August when
the third world war can start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow Maybe He will give the solutions They will
be tragic solutions And those of us who live know what we will say But what stupid things are we dealing with
When Europe itself at the Olympic Games and Euroov told us
my God is the Lord Understand it Christians understand
it our Islamists people said. Now we are living the
demolition of a dream. How can Cypriots, Greeks, and
Romanians become Europeans ? It's as if our Orthodox identity wasn't enough for us. Suddenly we see that we invested in the wrong dream. It wasn't
a dream. Our European perspective was a nightmare for all Greeks and
Romanians. I care about you
Christians you are also a small religious group This is what we want The
new order of things This is how we want society Men marry each other and women marry each other Do
n't have many children E we have a problem with climate change with the diet
you should also eat worms Amalaha You should also live in the Siguana which is a dung river E we are interested in impurity we are interested in
Osdomism E what does this have to do with
Orthodoxy You are leaving now Moscow Moscow Romanians must understand that
modern Moscow is not Soviet Maybe there you have a problem no
Eh your problem is not a western
orientation It is an orientation towards the east There we must all understand that Muscovites first and foremost
who are more numerous and Greeks and Romanians and Serbs and Bulgarians and everywhere Orthodox that the one who will unite us is not
Ptinn No is it the patriarchate of Cyril
or Bartholomew or Daniel It is the Orthodox Divine Liturgy I repeat The
Orthodox Divine Liturgy and the unity of the
faith This is very important the last one We forget How will I go to
communion when I do not have unity of faith Well you can go and work
with one now you go with a vicar of the Pope You can't Why
there is no unity believe Well we instead of understanding together
this is what unites us, find orthodoxy and the unity of faith,
we the high priests priests should teach our people this faith that kept
the Romanians strong for centuries and let them have
Turkish rule with their conquerors and Soviets and Ceausescu
and the Cypriots even if we had and if we had I counted my father that the Cypriots
were enslaved for 750 years you constantly believe it
Latin Venetians Ottoman Turks English and
now modern Turkey 50 years of occupation 750 years
Cyprus lived the second millennium free from 1960 to
1974 14 years only But he didn't have one blessed man He had many blessed men Blessed man was the result of
many other blessed ones E was something that came out of
himself And Romania has no Romania people of God here until the day before yesterday they did not
canonize a father Demetrius,
father yes, Staniloe, a great theologian, I am waiting for one of you
Hellenistic Romanian brothers to translate the doctrine of St. Demetrius to Ilos, I saw him once, you know, in Athens when he came
So these are the ones that will feed the souls not first of the
Orthodox Watch our responsibility We must be fed
Orthodox first and then the Chinese, the Indians, the Africans, the Americans are waiting for us, many
of them will want, not all of them. Because of them, the Germans first are a prophecy. The Germans will be the first to ask us for the Orthodox
faith, which will unite them and the church, the one church that
is only the Orthodox. Well, to become a teacher,
you must first become a student. Our job now is
to become good students of the Orthodox. saints
