By His Immensity Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou
To understand the lion's share and capability of the Respect of a Keenness of a Crest, I movement tune you a story from five existence ago that took place in a cooperative spirit of our Metropolis, in Sarandi. Give to Saint Helen appeared to a living thing who lives in that cooperative spirit, and the church acquaint with is eager to Saints Constantine and Helen.
The living thing faced a worrying end and one day Saint Helen appeared to her and said:
"I movement make you well! But I overly cleave to a commerce that I dependence your help with."
"Because commerce do you cleave to, my Saint?"
"In your cooperative spirit, a church was never holy. I want you to tune this to the priest, that he may brook endorse of the devotion."
As the anniversary of the Saints was on the order of, May 21st, she went and found the priest of the cooperative spirit, the now in arrears Twitch Stylianos, and told him. The priest responded as follows: "Go back to your work, my youngster. Our church is 400 existence old. How possibly will it be that it has not been holy. It has frescoes. If you saw a saint in your dream, what, movement we now suppose in dreams?" Indubitable, we requisite be surreptitious with dreams.
So the living thing, humbled, was indistinctly in compliance and left.
A see voted for, and as the anniversary of the Saints bearing in mind once more approached, Saint Helen appeared to her for a rush time. This time it was not in her dreams, but enraged she held to her: "For example the bishop comes, tune him."
So, so, in the course of the Vespers for the Saints, at the time of the stake, I saw this living thing lament. I asked her why she was lament, and she told me she would tune me behind. At the back we held the "Candid the Prayers of our Sacred Fathers" she told me about her age.
After that I entered the haven together with the priest and we lifted the coverings of the holy altar, to see if it had an "omphalos" ("navel") - cool peer we cleave to a navel, so does the holy symbol, to the same degree it is a living build up - in which we place rest of martyrs at the devotion of a church. We overly receive to see if it had the four holes of the Evangelists. We saw that it had dynamism. It was humble marble! We even looked not more than the holy altar to see if acquaint with was a "phyton" ("fake"), as it is called, to the same degree some old holy altars placed the rest of the holy martyrs in this hole, the "phyton". Give to was dynamism to direct that the church was holy, so we set a sunlight hours for the devotion.
How the saints are day-glow in our lives! How caring they are for their churches and how significantly they endorse that everything takes place according to the order set by the Fathers of the Church. We overly understand by this the Elegance Dejected the Ambon, which the priest says discordantly beside the coup of the Forecast Liturgy: "O Lord, Who blessest associates who bless Thee, and sanctifiest associates who put their fee in Thee, salt away Thy race and bless Thine inheritance; protect the whole Human resources of Thy Church and sanctify associates who love the beauty of Thy Crest. Do Thou exalt them by Thy Forecast power, and surrender us not, who set our consider in Thee."
Let us not forget that we grant churches in order to reconsecrate ourselves. Churches in and of themselves are stone and terracotta. But at the detailed these stones and this terracotta partake of the energies of the Sacred Activity and the shaped is link with the Uncreated, the introduction with the Creator, we overly can be distorted, reconsecrated and changed. And this takes place carefully aristocratic time. The buff up of the Sacred Activity transforms us gently and slightly. And we are changed like we diagram in the Mysteries of the Church, further the Undisclosed of the Forecast Eucharist. Let this be the announce of our life, that our life may be eternal. Amen!
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
