Monday, September 8, 2025
Father Nikon answers questions
How can we understand where we are if we are really progressingor we are stagnant and not making progress, how can we win ourselves to the right pace of spiritual advancement because many times we do our spiritual life not for God but to feel some inner rest and self-satisfaction. We understand that we have progressed spiritually when our love for others has increased more. We have progressed spiritually when this love we feel for others is shown in action. We show her. Then we know we have made spiritual progress. But at the same time and when doing what we do we feel that everything we do is done by God's grace and not that it is our own achievement. Where we have progressed spiritually when we have increased our humility. The more humble we become, the more spiritually advanced we are. When we do acts of virtue, when we work on virtues, give alms, say something to others and feel that we really have virtues, this shows that we have not progressed spiritually at all. Because people who are virtuous and know it, who have virtues and know it, are very hard and sharp to others, while the humble always feels himself worse than others. The virtuous is demanding of others. The humble man who has love for others is demanding of himself. So when we want to know how far we have advanced in virtue, we will look to see if we confess often, if we think well of others, the best for others. When we hear of cases like the priest who threw away his robes or someone else who has some other accident, we pray more for him. If we pray more, if we show our love more, if we prevent someone from criticizing someone else we love both the one who criticizes and the one who is criticized, then yes we have progressed in virtue. and in the spiritual life. Otherwise the virtues become dangerous. Even the devil has virtues. And the devil angel is, but a black angel. And the devil fasts, the devil virgins, and the devil vigils. No matter how many virtues we acquire, we will never acquire the virtues that the devil had. one he has not and destroys all his other virtues. He has no humility. And all virtues are wasted and become dangerous. That is why Saint Isaac Syros speaks of virtues that become snakes in the hands of the one who has them. That is precisely why many times the good God withdraws his grace from someone virtuous and allows him to fall, to sin in order to be humbled. And this humiliation will save him. Not his virtues which he acquired with the grace and help of God. This is exactly why St. John says in a scale, "We were after hunger or victory with pride." I'd rather fall with humiliation than achieve virtue with pride. In this, someone said, the sinner differs from the Saint. In which In that both are sinners. Only the Saint knows. While the sinner does not know it. And because the saint knows he is a sinner, he is humble. The sinner who does not know that he is a sinner is proud and thereby will perish. Not out of pride. We will not perish because we sin. We will perish because we do not repent. And repentance shows humility. That is precisely why we will pursue these two with all our might. Humility and practical love. to others the love shown in action. hey
Saturday, September 6, 2025
The Holy Icons and the Sacraments in Orthodox Teaching
In the Orthodox Church, icons and sacraments are not mere symbols or traditions, but profound expressions of our faith. Through them, we experience the reality of Christ’s incarnation and our participation in Divine Grace.
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🖼️ The Holy Icons
The veneration of icons has often been misunderstood by those unfamiliar with the theology of the Church. Orthodoxy teaches:
Icons are not idols, because they are not worshiped as deities.
Their existence is based on the fact that Christ became man. Since He took on real human nature, He can also be depicted.
The honor we offer to icons does not stop at wood and paint, but “passes over” to the prototype, that is, to Christ, the Theotokos, or the saint depicted.
Icons serve as windows to Heaven. When the faithful look at them, they do not simply see artistic representations, but open their hearts to the living presence of the person depicted.
The veneration of icons is a confession of faith in the Incarnation, in the reality that God entered human history and became “visible” in our world.
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✝️ The Sacraments of the Church
Orthodoxy preserves the Sacraments not as simple symbolic acts, but as real means of partaking in the Grace of God. Each Sacrament is a spiritual encounter that unites man with Christ.
In Baptism, a person is spiritually reborn, freed from original sin, and becomes a living member of the Church.
In Chrismation, he receives the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which strengthen him in the struggle of faith.
In the Holy Eucharist, it is not a mere “symbol” or “remembrance” of the Last Supper, but the real presence of Christ. The bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of the Lord, which sanctify and give life to the faithful.
Through the Sacraments, the entire life of the believer becomes a journey of salvation. God does not remain distant, but touches and transforms man in a real and living way.
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Conclusion
Icons and Sacraments are two fundamental pillars of Orthodox life. Icons reveal to us the reality of the Incarnation and connect us with the Saints, while the Sacraments grant us the Grace of God and lead us to salvation.
This is the living experience of the Church — not limited to theory or symbols, but the very life of Christ continuing in the world.
Friday, September 5, 2025
FATHER ELPIDIOS
The great informalschism between the now chaff and the wheat began. Now Hera will stand out who the wheat. Those who will truly love him and will not be afraid like the wheat to endure, to become prosperous and others who will remain typical like the chaff that will be taken from them and thrown away. There is a lot more he says that you can't get over the cunningness of esphorus and the trickery with which he will deceive both political leaders and church leaders to one day do the worst evil imaginable and you know that your poor children will get away with something very wicked in a little while and you will know that they will steal your children, they will blackmail your children, they will blackmail you. I don't know what will happen. All I know is that I can bind him to understand that they will do great harm to your children and then you will cry a lot and no one will be able to help you because you too have gone away from his arms. Now we have to hold his hand hard, hold his hand. When the one who thinks he has come to stay, he obviously meant the antichrist who is not him, he is the antichrist. He says he will soon perish after doing great harm to the whole world. Great evil all over the world. And we will all celebrate a new resurrection together, the resurrection of your homeland. Because those who remain will be faithful to me, they will love me and worship me. All those who are in great political and ecclesiastical positions will not find time. My father decided, he says, to clean his apelo. All those who betrayed him, his son, all those who dishonored his will, he will let them understand what they did and they will feel for themselves with which high priests they will go. The Jew. A quadriplegia will spread over our country. Our homeland will become a quadriplegic. She will suffer for her faith. will suffer from its economy. It will suffer from geophysical upheavals and geopolitical complications. You will remember them. Our Greece will become a quadriplegic. Her faith will be battered and battered relentlessly. The economy will collapse. Nature will rebel. In many ways. You will see these. and war upheavals will bring new data. Now the antichrist, the antichrist wants to do the great reboot and he will cause chaos through disease and economy. He will make you all people since he will put a leash on you to flow where he wants. it will do a big reboot. That's what he thinks, that's what he wants. But my father decided to use what the tax will do to make another restart of his state, his church. And through the church all the bad and the arranged will leave. New ones will come out. He says people will come who will worship his father and me and the Holy Spirit. They will love me and my father and the Holy Spirit so much that the life of the Saints will be their strength and they will run to the ends of the earth. That's how my father defined it. To convey the strongest true faith. So be patient. You have power. Trust me and you will soon see everything come to pass. But now Calvary must be done because the real resurrection will be the one that will happen, when everyone will perish with me, my child. It will be my father's big reboot to his church. No reboot of satan s on the planet. He dreams of restarting the evil that will control you all. But my father decided otherwise. He does not yet allow the antichrist to come to rule. There will first be a great restart of his church with power. Then you will glorify me. You will all run to the ends of the earth to talk about me. Money will be everywhere. My name will be everywhere. My stitch will be everywhere . People everywhere will know that I am her God of peace. And for a long time the kingdom will be glorified until such time as God allows . But strong will be those who will face the real antichrist who will come to destroy everything. But then I will take you in my arms to live with me. But now don't be afraid. It's just that those who believe me were the ancients, they were the priests, I now want them to say it, to confess it, not to be afraid. The martyrs were not afraid of persecution. They were not afraid of imprisonment. They were not afraid of exiles. They did not fear the destruction of their homes and their properties. Because among all this they saw the condition of their future presence in the arms of God, in eternity. This is what I would like to say today . But he says it. He says them and he says them so beautifully and so sweetly that we have no reason not to listen to him. Just let your heart accept his word. Let your heart hear his sweet voice calling you. My little girl, my little boy, I am your father and your mother. Trust and do what every child does when they open their arms and run into their mother's arms. Those who do will not even understand what will happen. Because in wonderful ways, in wonderfully wonderful ways, he will support and nurture and protect his own children. I don't want to think about what will happen to the others. Everyone chooses. You alone decide which will be your choice with Jesus to be reconciled with him or with the aosphorus each of you decides. I bless you in the name of our beloved Jesus. I bless you to enlighten your mind. To know what is the right thing to do. I bless you. to give you prudence in actions. Know how to handle every difficult moment to come from here on out. I bless you and may our God, our Jesus, our Father, the Holy Spirit grant you the strength to succeed. Because we might know which is right. We may know how to do it, but they have the power. Without the Holy Spirit nothing happens. Now a test drive how do you take it from the gut and circulate it to see let's do a test drive for you now is how many years will the antichrist stay in absolute power so many years he says now you will live in the imitation so to speak of his power and these same things will happen in a small form from the politicians and also from the church false prophets so that you can experience what will happen and once you choose who you will love, who you will embrace, whom you will find in your penance, and whom you will henceforth be subject to. I wish all of us to make the right choice and from today our beloved Jesus will be the only love, strength, joy of our hearts. We have nothing to fear from today. I propose to you a word, let it become the symbol of our life. Jesus you are the love and passion of my heart. You are the divine love of my soul. You will always be here for me because you are my mother and my father, the king of my heart. I wish those who will say it. That in them the Holy Spirit will make a permanent residence in the soul and they will begin to suffer in the midst of persecutions and sorrows.
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