An incident recounted to us by Elder Nikon of the New Skete on Mount Athos)

 When an Old-Calendarist Woman Met Elder Ephraim of Philotheou

(An incident recounted to us by Elder Nikon of the New Skete on Mount Athos)

Once, as I was telling the Elder my thoughts, the telephone rang, and the Elder said to me:

“Shall I answer it, my boy?”

“Well, answer it, Elder,” I said. “It might be some urgent need—someone might be dying. I can find you again later.”

He answered the phone, and I heard a woman who was crying, shouting, beating herself, and screaming.

And the Elder was saying to her on the phone:

“Do you see, my girl, what I was telling you? Do you see that I told you to do this? Yes, my girl, you are right—yes, that’s how it is.”

Then the Elder hung up the phone.

“If it’s something confessional,” I said to him, “Elder, don’t tell me. But if it’s something else, what happened to her and why was she like that?”

As the Elder told me, she was a schoolteacher from Epirus who was an Old-Calendarist. When she met Fr. Ephraim—somehow—I don’t know how—she began attacking him relentlessly:

“You New-Calendarists have betrayed Christianity. You have gone over to the Pope, to Satan. Your Patriarch is a heretic. You have no grace of the priesthood. The Holy Spirit has left the Church with the New Calendar.”

“No, my girl,” the Elder told her, “that’s not how it is. Our priests do have the priesthood.”

But he could not convince her. Then he said to her:

“Go, my girl, to a church that follows the New Calendar and receive Holy Communion, and the Lord will answer you.”

And because the woman was sincere, she did what the Elder suggested. She said to herself, “What do I have to lose? At worst, I’ll just drink a little wine and eat a small piece of bread. I have nothing to lose.”

So she went. At the time when the priest was communing the faithful, and when her turn came, she opened her mouth, received Communion, and then stepped aside to the women’s area. She tried to chew what the priest had placed in her mouth with the spoon, but she felt it in her mouth like rubber.

“What did the priest put in my mouth?” she wondered.

She tried to bite it, but it would not bite. Then she put her fingers into her mouth and pulled them out covered with blood, holding in her hand a piece of flesh. Then she began to cry out:

“My Christ, my Panagia, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me, Panagia! Have mercy on me, my Christ!”

The other women saw her, understood that a miracle had taken place, and grabbed her hand so that she would not throw down what she was holding. She did not want to hold it. Then the others forced it back into her mouth. She put it into her mouth unwillingly, and then it became again like bread, and thus she was able to swallow it. And the blood on her fingers became like wine, and then they went and washed her fingers.

Thus we know with certainty that what our Church teaches us is true.

(This is an incident recounted to us by Elder Nikon of the New Skete on Mount Athos, and the Elder to whom it happened was Fr. Ephraim of Philotheou [Arizona].)

Before 30 years _ Этот текст был произнесён около 30 лет назад.

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старцем Паисием, святым Паисием Аиритским. «Беседы Б. Духовное пробуждение, вызванное изданием книг о Святых Отшельниках». Евангелист Иоанн Богослов, Суроти, Салоники. 188 страниц. «Послушайте», — спрашивает монахиня тогда ещё жившего старца. «Паисий, старец, вмешается ли Христос в эти трудные годы?» Тот же вопрос задал Иоанн, когда был послан в 2020 году. Тот же вопрос задавали и до 1994 года, когда он уснул. Или сколько лет назад, скажем, 90, то есть 30 лет назад. 30 лет назад. Тот же вопрос, и тогда они увидели, что эти годы были трудными. Представьте, если бы они жили так, как мы сегодня. Что ж, говорит старец, повторяю, в эти трудные годы Христос вмешается. И послушайте, какое видение было у Паисия. Пророк. Он обладал пророческим даром, и не только пророческим, но и многими другими. Он также обладал даром толкования пророчеств о сложных вещах. Да. Здесь вы видите, как святой отвечает несправедливому человеку, находящемуся в хорошем настроении, потому что он имеет право на божественную помощь, святые, Дева Мария, Христос много раз являются, чтобы спасти его. Насколько же больше сейчас, когда бедный мир окажется в таком трудном положении? Теперь это будет хаос. Послушайте, сейчас он говорит, что это будет хаос. Небольшое одержимость антихриста, сатаны. Затем пощёчина от Христа. Все народы будут потрясены, и мир придёт в мир на долгие годы. На этот раз Христос позволит спасти своё творение. Христос оставит своё творение. Он явится в тупике людей, чтобы спасти их от рук антихриста. Он вернётся ко Христу, и духовный мир придёт во весь мир на долгие годы. Послушайте, что нас ждет; это для нашего поколения. 30 лет назад, повторяю, духовный мир придет во весь мир на многие годы. Но ему будет предшествовать, говорит он, смятение всех народов. [музыка] Они будут потрясены, говорит он, все проблемы перестанут быть локальными. Они не впечатляют вас; они не национальные. Это глобальные проблемы. Некоторые говорят это; обратите на это пристальное внимание. Они сочетаются с этим вмешательством второго пришествия Христа. Я не могу этого сказать. Посмотрите, каким сдержанным и смиренным был святой. Мои рассуждения подсказывают мне, что это будет не второе пришествие Христа, когда он придет как судья, а вмешательство Христа. Потому что есть так много событий, которые еще не произошли. Он имеет в виду события Откровения. Поэтому мы не можем Теперь говорить об антихристе.

According to Orthodox Teaching on the Tollhouse

According to orthodox teaching, the customs offices are spiritual trials that the soul undergoes after death, not in the form of "tax collectors," but as examinations of the passions and sins committed in life.

🔹 The Holy Fathers of the Church, such as St. John of Damascus, Saint Macarius of Egypt, Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, and others, refer to the tolls as a universal experience of every soul.
That is, all people go through them, regardless of their religion, because everyone will stand before God.

🔹 However, there is one difference that should be noted:
Orthodox believers pass through the tollgate under the protection of the Angels, the Saints, and the Grace of the Holy Mysteries, while those of other peoples and religions, who have not participated in Orthodox grace, are judged according to their conscience, as the Apostle Paul writes:

"When Gentiles, who do not have the Law, do by nature what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves..."
(Romans 2:14)

📜 In other words: – Orthodox Christians are judged according to the light they received – the Truth of Christ. – Non-Orthodox Christians are judged according to their conscience and the degree to which they lived with justice and love, according to what they knew.

Nevertheless, the spiritual experience of death—the separation of the soul and its encounter with spiritual beings—is

global.
Thus, customs are better understood as a symbolic way of describing this spiritual examination, rather than as an exclusive "ritual" of the Orthodox Church alone.

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The hierarch who considered divided abortions into therapeutic abortions.
There is no therapeutic abortion. The presence of God is intense.
And he decides how life will come into the world. If it will come with Down syndrome, which is caused by the parents. Be careful.
All these diseases that afflict children come from the parents.
He will tell me how you know and where you started this. Father Panagiotis from
Agrafa left me, and I entered the church with a
couple who had an infant child, and there they had the responsibility to ask for your prayers. I have said it before.
I will say it again because it is timely. To ask for the prayers of
The grandfather helped their child, who was in a wheelchair.
There, the grandfather asked them why they committed this crime. What crime
Did we commit? The grandfather says they don't do it on Good Friday.
.
Any child could have told you that more simply. Any child conceived on Good
Friday comes out immature. They were speechless.
The girl began to cry. Because some stupid priest, who
is still active, old now, had told them that love,
Christ says, "Do not enter the bedroom, and love can
happen at any time and day. At the time when the Lord was crucified,
today, he says, he is crucified; today, he is hung on a tree; today, because
This is repeated every year. We do not understand it.
We do not say 2,000 years ago today. Because the Lord's cross
is raised on Good Thursday, the Lord is raised to take away
our sins. We do not understand it. They then chose to have intercourse and conceive, and there was conception, and their child came out
immature. And other cases. The supernatural
sins. You know how many complications they create in the
new, in newborns. like little children.
The Lord wants all little children to grow up healthy. We
Destroy them. We destroy them. I will be crazy. No. Tell me what you want. How crazy I
am, and whatever you want to tell me. But this is the truth. And
We will not let the truth go; we will not try to always tell it.
So this sick pseudo-Roman system that supposedly
says that the idea that women control their bodies has taken hold. What started with Bilderberg was
population reduction. It passed the egoism to women through the feminist
movement, and they started thinking about careers, one thing, but they don't think
about it when they meet. God gave the mind to man.
He gave the mind. And the mind
thinks to think logically according to God, I would say.
Not for us to have a good time. And when
pregnancy comes, we say, oh, I have my career; I have to do this; I have
my jobs, I will quit my jobs, I have this. That is wrong. We are
murderers, and we are all murderers, and you who are listening to me, too. Why?
Because we are moral agents. What did Grandpa say? He
says to me, "You know," he says to me, "When you go, who will be against you and
will demand your punishment? " Who, I tell him, old man, will
be all these fetuses that were slaughtered, the fetuses that we did nothing to protect?
I have an acquaintance who works in a maternity ward, and she told me that in recent years, maternity wards
have been living off abortions, not births. And
You see it anyway. Births are decreasing, and abortions are increasing.
And Elder Basilios of Kavsokalyvetis
had said the following. The immigration of foreigners to Greece
was permitted by God as a punishment. Illegal immigrants,
he says, came as punishment for the Greeks for the murders
of millions of fetuses.
He says there are 300,000 to 400,000 abortions in Greece annually, perhaps even
more. In fact, we are a country
where this murder is permitted, and they also come from Italy because in
In Italy, the Vatican still reacts to the issue of abortions. After all, this is heretical, too. Italian women come to Greece and go to
Greek hospitals perform abortions. There, in the third basement,
The murders take place, and the doctor comes out, takes the money, and everything is fine. But he is a murderer; he does not understand it. And when things happen at home, then he starts to wonder why
this happened to me: why my child got sick, why he fell asleep, why
My wife died, which is why I crashed my car. He doesn't understand. God gives him
trials to lead him to repentance, but the gynecologist who performs
abortions, and he doesn't understand. Destroyed families
are the ones who murder these innocent little creatures, the unrepentant
little creatures. Christ gave the command to cleanse
this filth, the filth, the filth, and we are already in this
process. That's why my Christians, close to Christ, are away from the paranormal.
sins, so that you have land, great children, and
Don't come out with problems. Don't come out with asthma.
Don't come out with mental problems. Their bodies are shaped by these. The
soul is not tempted. His body is shaped by our own situation many times. Listen to
church music. Listen to the time, my good women. Listen to
church music. At the time or in the free hours of your pregnancy.
Come, listen to a conversation that is constructive for your soul.
This will be a very healthy child of yours. He will stand, and you will be proud of him.
Go to church.
Let him listen to psalms. Because this will make him, as Saint John
the Baptist did, when our Virgin Mary went to his mother, Elizabeth, he cried.
He said he rejoiced. He rejoiced.
You know how life is connected; it is one. They live even when they are asleep. That is why
We also commemorate them. So that they may go to be in eternity. They live. Our saints
are here with us. Christ is with us. Our Virgin Mary. Just a thought every day. May the Lord have mercy. One glory to God is enough to activate
the entire sky and fall on you and remove every problem, every
difficulty. But what do we do? We want such and such a member of parliament because we do not believe in
God that he can do it for us. We want to have good relations with the
authorities when we have a problem to solve. To have a good doctor,
a good one. All of this is good. But first, you will think of God, and
God will reveal to you the right people to help you in the right way
with the problem you are facing. There is no faith today.
There is no faith, and no one cares about it. The church should
mourn daily
for the example of this society, but it too has been trapped in
a formalism.
a false western piety through the organizations; I did not see any that the
I have offered great work in Greece, the Christian organizations
I did not see any Christian organization come forward and say he is right
I know the Christian people are against abortions and want to make a flag for it
They hide; everyone is afraid of the system. The system is nothing
It seems strong, but it is not powerless because you live in the darkness; it is enough to
Illuminate it a little, and it trembles because it only moves. It has learned to move like moles in the Masonic lodges and in the darkness.
It is shaded when someone talks to them about the light.
When someone operates selflessly. What can I say? The Vineyard belongs to the Lord, my dear. Neither does our body belong to us.
The body is the hotel. which holds the soul, and this we must take care of. And because this hotel
was offered to us by the earth, because it says we were created from the clay, it must return to the earth and not burn. Because God took it from the earth and put
the soul in it. And now, when the soul leaves, we must return what
God gave us the earth where it belongs, and we should not go and burn it
as many do for reasons of economy,
because
It is cheaper because they did it; that's why I tell you they did it, formalities and
marriage formality, the mystery of marriage where you give a promise, and the two are
said to be one flesh, and today there is no respect for one flesh. The other half is half
your heart. You unite the hotels, and two souls live side by side together. And there, because they live through humility, through the love of one for the other, the Lord himself is revealed and to be reflected to radiate this love of God that connects the three persons of the Holy Trinity to
be reflected through marriage, and the child comes.
I don't know, my good Christians. Today, we have lost the teaching of
Christ and we remain in the typos. We seek, we seek a miracle. While
we live the miracle daily. The miracle is upon us. He entrusted us. A miracle
is that God entrusted each of us and anointed us in power
king and a queen. And indeed, when we are worthy and are worthy to participate
in the mystery of divine thanksgiving and to commune with what happens What happens is
What happens to kings? He gives us his blood and his body. To
Take his own body, his sanctified, resurrected body and blood, and go with him. This is what he asks. We are kings and
queens, and we consider ourselves to be worse. Yes.
But kings and queens in heaven. Who are those who have
won humiliation? Those who use humiliation. Because
Humility is what unites man with God. And God says, You are gods. And he says he called the gods. Who are the gods? And he spoke to them. But as men, he says, you flee. Who are the gods
To which God is speaking? In David, I think, in Psalm 81.
If I'm not mistaken, read it to see. And you were gods, he says.
He called the gods. So what is it? God himself wants us to be with
him, to live in divinity, in eternity, in the kingdom of heaven.
And we are missing this opportunity, this treasure that we have with
our Lord, who came into the world to resurrect us and take us with him. We are missing
this opportunity, and what do we do? We remain in small things, in vices, in
everyday problems, in fears that we are burdened by them. Today
is Wednesday, which is the day he writes a program about. The signal 112 came, it says, and you will play rain. And what
if it rains, it's winter, and it has to rain so we can have
water. Because people are afraid. They closed schools at the slightest thing.
They are terrified because they know that fear is cultivated in them by the presence
of angels who clean the gutter. The sinner feels it, feels it, and
is afraid. He is shadowed and tells you to enlist. And who is
the shadowed little guy who is shadowed outside here who sees the angels and tells you,
sit down; don't let them throw down the building on me. I should at least take some protective measures to
Save it. And we didn't just talk about the rain.
Fear is cultivated and becomes a tool in the hands of these ruthless
murderers.

 

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ENGLISH

For years, medical guidelines have gradually lowered the “normal” cholesterol limits, especially LDL cholesterol. As a result, millions more people are labeled as patients and are advised to take statin drugs.

The official justification is that lower LDL levels are associated with fewer heart attacks and strokes, mainly in high-risk individuals (those with diabetes, prior heart attack, or stroke).

However, this approach raises serious concerns.

Statins are not harmless drugs. They may cause muscle pain and weakness, liver enzyme elevation, increased risk of diabetes, fatigue, and cognitive complaints in some people. These side effects are recognized, though often downplayed.

The biggest issue is the one-size-fits-all model. Many low-risk individuals receive little or no real benefit, while still being exposed to side effects.

Cholesterol itself is essential for life. It is necessary for brain function, hormone production, and healthy cell membranes. Cardiovascular disease is not caused by cholesterol alone, but by chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, gut health, and lifestyle factors.

Regarding cancer, dementia, and heart failure, evidence is mixed. Statins are not universally protective, and in certain conditions they show no clear benefit.

Conclusion

Statins can save lives in specific high-risk cases, but they are overprescribed, lab limits are continuously lowered, and important health factors are ignored. Health cannot be reduced to a single number.

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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ

Τα τελευταία χρόνια, οι ιατρικές οδηγίες έχουν μειώσει σταδιακά τα “φυσιολογικά” όρια της χοληστερίνης, ιδιαίτερα της LDL. Έτσι, όλο και περισσότεροι άνθρωποι χαρακτηρίζονται ασθενείς και οδηγούνται στη λήψη στατινών.

Η επίσημη εξήγηση είναι ότι χαμηλότερη LDL συνδέεται με λιγότερα εμφράγματα και εγκεφαλικά, κυρίως σε άτομα υψηλού κινδύνου.

Όμως, υπάρχουν σοβαρές ενστάσεις.

Οι στατίνες δεν είναι ακίνδυνες. Μπορούν να προκαλέσουν μυϊκούς πόνους, κόπωση, αύξηση ηπατικών ενζύμων, διαταραχές μνήμης και αυξημένο κίνδυνο διαβήτη.

Το βασικό πρόβλημα είναι η λογική «ένα φάρμακο για όλους». Πολλοί χαμηλού κινδύνου άνθρωποι δεν ωφελούνται ουσιαστικά, αλλά εκτίθενται σε παρενέργειες.

Η χοληστερίνη είναι απαραίτητη για τη ζωή: για τον εγκέφαλο, τις ορμόνες και τα κύτταρα. Η καρδιοπάθεια σχετίζεται κυρίως με φλεγμονή, ινσουλινοαντίσταση, οξειδωτικό στρες και τρόπο ζωής.

Όσον αφορά καρκίνο, άνοια και καρδιακή ανεπάρκεια, τα δεδομένα δεν είναι ξεκάθαρα. Οι στατίνες δεν προσφέρουν πάντα όφελος.

Συμπέρασμα

Οι στατίνες έχουν θέση σε συγκεκριμένες περιπτώσεις, αλλά υπερσυνταγογραφούνται, τα όρια αλλάζουν συνεχώς και η υγεία δεν μπορεί να κρίνεται από έναν αριθμό.

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FRANÇAIS

Depuis des années, les autorités médicales abaissent progressivement les seuils “normaux” du cholestérol, en particulier le LDL. Ainsi, de plus en plus de personnes sont considérées comme malades et reçoivent des statines.

Les statines ne sont pas sans risques : douleurs musculaires, fatigue, troubles métaboliques et cognitifs peuvent apparaître.

Le principal problème est l’approche uniforme. Le cholestérol est vital pour le cerveau et les hormones, et les maladies cardiovasculaires sont surtout liées à l’inflammation et au mode de vie.

Conclusion

Les statines peuvent être utiles dans certains cas, mais leur usage excessif pose question.

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ESPAÑOL

Durante años, las guías médicas han reducido los límites “normales” del colesterol, aumentando el número de personas medicadas con estatinas.

Las estatinas pueden causar efectos secundarios y no benefician a todos. El colesterol es esencial para el cerebro y las hormonas, y la salud cardiovascular depende también de la inflamación y el estilo de vida.

Conclusión

Las estatinas no son una solución universal y su prescripción debe ser individualizada.