3 November 2025

Saint Raphael, after so many centuries, sets up a conversation at noon with the sister of Father Emmanuel, chatting as if they were friends since childhood, not in sleep, not in a vision face face-to-face 400 years after his execution by the Turks, and he is still alive. Hence, what Christ said is true; if it were not, they would not be there. This is why it is difficult for an Orthodox Christian to renounce his faith. That is why if an Orthodox Christian renounces his faith, it would be better if he had never been born. Because he knows what is being done. Everyone else has an excuse.

We Orthodox have no excuse. We know what God we have. We know what church we have. We know what power the mysteries of our church have

. Because we live them. If a saint spoke to the Virgin Mary.

We can all talk to the Virgin Mary

and not only as a prayer, when needed and otherwise.

I told you yesterday in the screening how an unknown saint spoke to a monk who found his relics and wanted to go to the monastery to call him to have his relics exhumed. What he says, "Where are you going? You asked me if I wanted to be declared a saint and to be incensed." Together, he says, we held vigils.

Together we fasted, together we fought. You will leave me where you found me, and you will not tell anyone anything.

This is how we know that those who have died are alive and not only alive, but their minds are working. Not only do they live, but they also see. They recognize us, 

hear us, and can and do come into contact with us. How do we know that we can see without eyes? How do we know that we can hear without ears? We live these things.

We do not believe them. I'll tell you an incident to finish. I haven't said it anywhere, not even in any speech, because it's outrageous. Well, I've never been there before.

I went for the first time. And I said, Let's go see so-and-so. An elder called me and said, "

Pray for my daughter." "Pray for my husband." He gave me their names and I said, "Let's go see who she is, since I'm here." I went, 

and the woman was also a friend of hers. We were chatting in the living room, and while we were chatting, I wasn't even wearing the cap. I was wearing another soft one that we have for everyday use. And it has a little cross on the forehead. A cloth cap.

And she looked at me again. She looked at me. She looked at me. I said to myself, "What is she looking at?

This is the first time she's seeing a monk." Well, it's time to go. I get up and say we can call a taxi because I live over there. I went there by taxi, and the visitor says She says, Father, I will take you elder, I will take you to the text.

Unedited. She said goodbye to the lady. We got into her car, and she says to me, 

"Hey, what is this cross you have on your cap? What cap is that? Why are you wearing it? What cross is that?" Hey, I say it's the everyday cap that we wear, and this cross as a talisman. It does not show any office; it does not show anything. For the same reason that we wear the cross on our chest, the woman had never seen before, and she tells me, "You know, she says, what

's happening is I'm married. I have two children, and one day, something very bad happened to my husband, and we almost died from our sadness. At the same time, a big accident happens to the children. Oh, a terrible situation happens at school, and I almost go crazy. My God, 

please do a miracle, my God, please do a miracle. What will happen to our house? We'll go crazy. We'll all go to the psychiatrist. To go to monasteries. To make vows. To beg the Virgin Mary. To beg the saints, 

and nothing was happening. One day, I met a friend of mine whom I hadn't seen for 20 years because she was abroad. Hey, how are you doing? Hugs, kisses. I was glad to see her. We were little friends, and while we were talking, suddenly a strong scent came to me from her bag.

I held my nose and screamed. Open your bag. Open your bag

. It spilled, now it will change your papers. The other one was scared. She opened her bag and at the same time she said, "Hey, Christians, I don't have any perfume in my bag, look what it is, it will ruin your papers." She opened it, she took out her

ID cards from the bag, she took out her passport, she took out her handkerchiefs, she took out no

It had a scent where did this scent come from And I grab

a piece of paper in an instant and my hand shook it 1 m away from this

paper this terrible chariot was coming this terrible fragrance almost suffocated me

I look from afar I say 1 meter away. As long as he stretched out my hand, 

I could stretch the tendon to move it away from me. It was the photo of a monk who was wearing such a cap, like the one I wore with the crosses. He tells her this smells like this. The other one who had come from abroad takes the photo, puts it to her nose, You are fine he tells her, but it doesn't smell anything. Let her smell it, and he extends it towards me. I took her, he says, 2 m back. Take her, take her from me. It is a collapse.

Who is he? He says there is my spiritual being. His phone number, 

his name, his phone number, I have, I'm about to lose it, we're about to go crazy at home. Tell me what to do, I'll give it to you she says, you won't be able to talk to him because he gets called too many times and he can't answer.

Give it to me and don't worry about one. And a woman asked me if I knew this spiritual man. Well, she said, I picked up the phone and started calling. Calling in the morning, calling at night, calling abroad, the phone at all hours of the day. That I can't reach him.

I'll reach you, she says, where are you going to take me, at all hours, that he won't stop calling.

One night, she comes home, and on the way home, she hears crying and shouting from the neighbor. She gets scared, and she runs to the neighbor. And what's the point? The neighbor only had one girl. A 17-year-old girl, she tells me, is beautiful as a model. I adored the girl because I don't have any girls. I have two boys.

And I loved her more than my girl. And the little girl was dying.

She said I became a corpse; it would have been better if I hadn't lived. I was so sad. I was coming home, wallowing in tears. I didn't have enough of mine. Now the little girl I loved so much was dying too. I fell asleep, drowning in tears, and in my sleep, I saw the monk in the photo. And he says to me, What's wrong, 

girl? Why are you saying, oh, father, this and that is what's happening to me with my husband? Don't be sad. That's what he says. Tell your husband to do this and that, and everything will be fine. And with my children, father, they have this and that problem. Don't worry, they will do this and that, and everything will be fine.

And it's not just that, old man. My neighbor has a daughter who is not doing well. She is an only child. She is a 17-year-old girl, and she is dying. Don't worry. In the morning, she will tell your neighbor to take the little girl with her husband. They will go there, they will do this and that, and that, and the little girl will live, and everything will be fine. I wake up in the morning and I feel so light, he says, 

as if I were flying, as if a cancer had come out of my chest and gone, 

as if a rock had been lifted off me. I woke up like a bird, breathing and filling my lungs with air. It was as if another person had moved. He fell asleep at night

and another woke up. And I say with my logic that this dream was significant. To have such a dream, I would definitely find him on the phone, and I would run to the phone.

He dials the number. He hears a voice on the other side.

Please. He says Please, I want father so and so. It's me, he says. Oh, old man

you're shouting. You don't know me. You don't know me. You don't know me. We've never met. I've never seen you either. But you know I've been trying for so long to get in touch with you. I'm trying. Certain things are happening to me that I want to discuss with you. Please forgive me, I'm taking up your time

. And when I stopped alone, he says, but at night we didn't talk about them. I say I didn't understand. That's why I'm telling you it'ss against logic. The mind vomits them up. It can't accept them. If you don't live them, you don't accept them. You know, old man, you haven't met me.

I don't know you either. We've never met. And I have a problem with my children and with my husband. Yes, he says, you told me. He hears the voice. You didn't tell me that your husband has this. She didn't tell you to do this and this and this.

You know, she says, my children still can't accept it. She herself was living, and she herself couldn't accept it. How can we accept it when we hear it? That's why I tell you, put into practice what the church says, and you will learn from your own life whether what Christ says is true or not. She herself lived it, and she herself could not accept it. You know, she says, it is my children too. Yes. I did not tell you to do this and this and this, and everything will be fine. And she herself cannot digest it. You know, old man, it is something else. Yes. You told me about your neighbor's little daughter, who is 17 years old and is dying, and she has no one else. I did not tell you to take her with her husband and do this and this and this and this and that, and she cannot speak yet. And he asked me, "Do you know, Father, this old man?

Tell me now, how did this man see her with these eyes that we see here, how did he hear her with these ears that you hear me with now? The soul is what sees. The soul is what hears.

As long as the soul is inside the body, it uses its ears to hear.

It uses its fingers to feel. It uses its eyeballs to see. When the soul leaves the body, you know how it sees, you know how it hears. You can't imagine. Now, as long as the soul is inside the body, it uses its brain to think. You know, when we leave the body, how fast we think. You can't imagine it

. But you can experience it and know it. There is a case of a blind man, a blind man to be precise, who was operated on and died during the operation. And I see, my body says, the doctors running panicked, the nurses running to the exits, and I couldn't understand why they were doing that since I felt fine, and I go out into the hallway, and I see my sister, who came to the hospital, coming out, and I realized that I died crying and being beaten. I see her husband. For the first time in my life, I saw my sister, she says. For the first time in my life, I saw her husband. For the first time, I saw the clothes they were wearing. For the first timeI saw the world. And suddenly the doctors brought her back

and she found herself inside the body. She continues and tells her experience. They didn't believe her

of course. And she says to her sister. You don't wear this and that. You don't wear your ears thesee things. Your husband is not like that.

When she came to her senses, she was still the blind one.

Well, it's the eyeballs that don't see. Not the person. You don't lose your sight. The soul sees. The soul hears. As this man saw it from the outside, as this man heard it from the outside, the mind does not understand them. Live them and you will see if it is so or not. My mind does not understand how the computer works either. What will I do? I will throw it away since I see that there is life, and I accept it. We do not learn only with the mind.

We learn throughout our whole lives. With our whole existence.

We learn from the way we live. He does an injustice to the modesty of anyone who tries to learn only with his brain. He is foolish. Anyone who tries to learn only with the mind.

Live and you will see how many things you will learn that the mind does not understand, 

but he says that it is so because you live them. That is precisely why no one can convince another of the truths of Christ.

He himself will find out if what Christ says is true by putting them into practice. That is why I said earlier that we can all be saved, and they are not theologians and philologists of Christianity and the teaching of Christ. It is a way of life. Christ did not come to bring a new religion. We had religions to export to aliens and into space. He came to bring a new way of life. Christ would have told us, Live like this. And the kingdom of heaven has begun from now. From now. From now on, we know what happens next. We do not wait to die to find out if it is true or not. Saint Simeon the New Theologian says. Whoever does not see Christ in this life, do not deceive himself that you will see him in the next.

It is not. From here, we know whether this is true or not. That is why you see simple women, simple people talking to Saint

Raphael and Saint Nektarios and making small talk, and you cannot accept anything because you have not lived.

Things are very simple. Very simple. That is why we go to hell from We will go from our stupidity and from our laziness. From nothing else. That is why the

Christ, because we are lazy and don't start, sends us a slap, 

an illness, a car accident, something to say, oh my God, my little bird remembered me. That's how you remember me, what's my fault? Take it and take it too, so that you can live.