It descends from my head, reaches my heart, fills me whole.
What to do;
If something visits you and you wonder
Is
it the Holy Spirit? Then it certainly isn't. If he had visited you, you know it and you notice it.
If you're wondering, you know and wonder that it isn't.
What Holy Spirit?
Like that of the Protestants, which everyone feels
what he has convinced himself he must feel?
Someone told me, he had become orthodox, a former Protestant.
He came to Kelli, I hosted him and he tells me: "When I pray, the Holy Spirit comes
and i get it. It's coming off my head
it reaches my heart, it fills me whole.
What to do; »
"Very simple," I tell him, "I'll give you the phone number of a psychologist
here in Thessaloniki, go and tell you what pills to take".
He did not wonder: "Why should the Holy Spirit come to me?"
They do not describe such experiences to us
nor St. Paisius, nor Ephraim of Arizona.
So superior have you become now,
where do you send down the Holy Spirit with your prayer?
It is not a case of confession.
"You are, I tell him, a case for a psychiatrist."
Come together, for if you understand what spirit comes to you,
don't be too late
Says the Apostle Paul,
what are the fruits of the Holy Spirit: "Peace, peace, meekness [...]"
From the fruits you will understand if what you accepted
it was the Spirit of God, and we speak of the Spirit of God
as a Grace of God, not as a descent of the Holy Spirit.
Whether it was the Grace of God or not, it will be seen from your life
and from the fruits that this visit will yield.
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