So our concern is not how our children will be able to keep the
their faith. As if the problem is our children. It's not the children
Our problem is ours, the big one. What have we fed our children?
And the tragic, according to Saint Porphyrios, and unique
is that we give our children to them in the first seven years.
From there on, prayer is all we do.
and kneeling. We have said this many times.
Well, because many of you will say to me, "But our children raised you and didn't go
church.
You go, you kneel, and
you speak of Christ. for your children.
That's it. How many times have we done the other problem? It's not the parents' problem.
It is ours, the high priests. And so I anticipate many questions.
because many questions in here are about despots and priests
How many times have the high priests sat down to question us?
Talk about the conception of the Virgin Mary with God, with the Holy Spirit.
In the past, before 74, the ancients would travel from village to village and
They were talking about union with Greece. Well done.
Well done. Well done.
For Greece. Come on, Cyprus Union. If you were more left-wing, they would talk to you
about the Soviet Union. And we're talking about why the Turks came.
Why was Christ not jealous? He tells you that no one in her family loves me.
Cyprus. Half of them love Greece, and the others love the Soviets.
And there were some old women and some priests left. Well,
our good, our Cypriot. You know what it is when we hear the right thing.
we admit. In Greece if you tell them the right thing to do
react. Let them tell you 50 reasons why. But the Greek has another good thing. If
admits, takes action, and is not satisfied with little.
He wants holiness. He has a higher standard than us.
But he must bring his logic to its knees. The Cypriot must activate the
his heart. The Cypriots, the Asia Minor, the Cretans, the Nisotes, the Pontians,
We Constantinians were brave at heart. The Peloponnesians, the Atticians,
the people of Giannitsa, all of them, the Macedonians are the people of philosophy,
of the brain. They must bring their brains to their knees.
We Greeks have this Pluto wherever we are in the East and West.
But we also have some differences. With the help of some people from
So if we Cypriots want to
to raise children who can keep their faith in the face of
The new order of things is to teach them to love Christ and their neighbor.
If I tell you I don't love Christ because I don't believe in him very much,
throw them away like that, just love an old man
You can help a sick person, if you can't do that either
don't get married; get divorced
Seriously, don't get married if you can't love Christ.
Try to love a sick person or a senior.
I remember once a friend of ours went and repaired one that they had.
three others before he went and one of the three says
who had a girlfriend, he says, Matou had the Agiophile, he had the
Dimitris and Andreas say you got it too
And what did the man of God say? I know now his speech. How did you have it?
He's a good man, but he has a lot of stuff to do to raise it a little higher.
Listen, the other three parted ways with the woman.
the beauty that they reunited. He who took the woman fourth
hand, third hand, so far they are doing well, my dear. They come and see me
already. Listen
That's how it is. So if we want to produce children who
to withstand the new order of things, we must teach them orthodoxy
more with our prayer and our example. Secondly, to commune
us if they do not commune regularly, regularly with someone's advice
spiritual and the third, to repent and
We confess. We we
and when we do our job, even if we die and don't see
our children return to church, as soon as we go to our soul
before God, the first thing we will do is
to ask Christ for something for our children. Well, something for people
who we love very much. We usually love our children more. Usually.
All of them
I want forever. So. When my sister died
Suddenly her children were church members. I'm not saying they were atheists but they weren't
They had a lot to do with what I wanted. You know what I said to myself. Now I'll
I realized how high my sister Stella had climbed. I was sure she was saved. The
I felt it from the moment we buried her because they turned our mother around. But I say
Now I will understand from her children if they come closer to Christ.
When a few months passed and a few temptations occurred as usual, one by one
Her children came close to Christ. Eh
