Hello, my dear ones! Um... it's freezing outside. I know it's not looking like it but it's actually
freezing, the ocean has frozen; it's amazing how the seaweed, it is stuck in the ice of the ocean.
I've received a lot of messages concerning the end of the world and the greatest danger
to the world and to Orthodoxy and to our own civilization. There seems to be out there---I
haven't really seen them because we just don't have the time to watch everything, but
you've sent me a lot of links to websites and blogs and YouTube videos and so on where
all sorts of people from clergymen to people who are non-believers and scientists and all
sorts of categories of people are presenting us with a collection of possible ends of the world.
It feels like there is out there such---it's like a bistro, a fast food of doom and gloom:
you can just pick and choose, the way you go to a restaurant and you choose your favorite food,
you can now go online and just choose your favorite end of the world. So this world has an
end, that's a given, and those who are retraining themselves as prophets of the apocalypse have made
a very good career path, career choice, because sooner or later they are going to be right;
where they are wrong, and I know that with the certainty of someone whose heart has been shaped
slowly to understand this, I have not seen an apparition of an angel telling me this and God
has not spoken in a thunderous voice in my cell at night, but slowly my heart has been taught
and shaped to believe that the greatest danger for us and for the world, the only danger and
unfortunately the thing that will trigger the end of this world is my sin. My sin and your sin,
my brother and my sister is the only thing that we should fear because it is the only thing
that can trigger and ultimately will trigger the end of this world. Sin is a lack of love;
lack of love is a manifestation of selfishness, 'me first'; 'me first'
is the root of evil in this world, because 'me first' automatically means of course
'you second' and if you, my brother and my sister, have become second to me and I do not see you
and I do not love you as myself, then I have opened immediately in myself a gate, a door
to abuse you. As long as selfishness and lack of love prevent me from loving the world around me
as myself, as long as my heart says 'me first', which is 'you second', then that opens the door
to abuse; and what is abuse?---if it's 'me first', that means I have to feed my idols and my needs;
and what are the needs of most human beings?---well, let's think about it:
greed, of course, is one of the very first we can talk about; what does greed do?---if
you don't matter to me, if you don't count as much as I count, then of course I can do anything
to exploit you and abuse you so I can generate as much wealth for myself, for my family,
for my tribe, for my nation, for my country as possible. What I see in our future as humanity is
hunger to the point of war and genocide, everywhere I see nothing but destruction,
I see nothing but horrible pain, horrible suffering from all points of view,
and that is triggered exclusively by my sin, not humanism, not masons, not people who make
vaccines, not Muslims, not Jews, not all of our enemies of choice, because we have enemies
of choice traditionally and they simply express our discrimination and smallness of our hearts.
What I see is my sin feeding the greed in me, this greed that has already made it possible to have
plastic on top of the highest mountains of this world and in the depths of the deepest seas,
this greed that has made it possible that about a month ago I was reading that they had discovered
plastic, micro-plastic in the placenta of pregnant women, they've discovered
micro-plastics as part of the embryos. It struck me as, as the most horrible thing
I've read possibly in my life the fact that the doctors who were conducting this research
were referring to these babies not as fully human but some sort of cyborgs because this
is the first time when looking at the cell of a human being now there is some plastic in them
everything happens in the depths of the human heart the kingdom is in us and so is hell
everything that burns with the love of God starts and is fed in our hearts and everything that burns
with the flames of hell starts and is ignited in our hearts if we loved one another the way Christ
teaches us commands us to love one another then none of this would be possible because
when I see my brother and my sister regardless of where they live regardless of the colour of
their skin regardless of their gender regardless of anything and everything when if I have love
when I see my brother and my sister in pain then I am in pain if I love you as myself
but if I am first and you are second then that is the seed of hell me first triggers the apocalypse
you first triggers the kingdom of heaven me first triggers the domination of one's soul you first
triggers the salvation of one's soul I have no doubt in my heart that everything else all these
generational apocalypses all these prophets of doom and gloom that the world has known from
the time of Christ all the way to today will pass and that they are nothing but tools that the evil
one is using to distract us from the very simple clear truth which is written black on white in
the gospel and has been confessed without exception by all the saints of this world
since Christ's time to today the beginning and the end the kingdom of God and everything that is
evil resides starts springs from our hearts everything is solved and settled in our hearts
my sin and your sin my brother and my sister this is the enemy this is the one thing we
should fear the one thing we should fight and the good thing about this is that we can be optimistic
the good thing about this is that we can do something about it we are not helpless soldiers
in the hands of some horribly powerful mysterious masters of the world against whom we have no
power to fight anyway we can fight we can prevent this dreadful future because it is in our hands
falling in sin committing ourselves allowing ourselves to fall into sin is part of what
we can prevent do the good that you can do stay away from the evil that you can do too and that
that will contribute to the salvation of this world
that will contribute to you becoming the saint you were created to become
if you become the saint that God created you to become you have blessed this church with
yet another wonderful saint and you have blessed this world with yet another temple
yet another chalice of the Holy Spirit if we fall and if we waste our own salvation
what a waste not only for for you personally but also for the church because if you lose your soul
you've deprived the church of one of her saints and if you lose your soul you've compromised the
opportunity of this world to encounter through you in the chalice of your being the Holy Spirit
God himself we do not give ourselves enough credit we listen to the fallenness to the
evilness of this world that tells us that there's always someone else there's always some sort of
conspiracy beyond our power beyond our strength that is out to destroy us and the world and
ultimately the message there is that we are helpless there is nothing we can do about it
we are helpless and hopeless and this is a message of of helplessness that becomes part of who we are
we internalize this instead of believing the one who gave us life who died for us and promised us
that there is a way to save ourselves and to save our brothers and our sisters
we are the ones who are supposed to fight for the salvation of the world
do not listen to this message of of hopelessness and helplessness
you my brother you my sister are stronger more important than the entire world and this
is what these people fear that you and I understand ultimately how powerful we are if you
and I can bring down back present into the world God himself the creator of the world what
conspiracy and what mysterious group of people is powerful enough to destroy or to defeat us
what can touch us if God is with us as we shall soon in a month or two sing during lent
God is with us understand you nations we have the strength we have
the power we have the ability to heal ourselves and to save this world by giving ourselves to God
refraining from the sin that we can do and doing our best to do the good that we can do as well
don't listen to these messages of hopelessness don't internalize don't allow their message
to get hold of you you are created in the image of God himself and your calling is to
actualize this image to come to the likeness of this image this is unthinkably more powerful
more potent than any conspiracy and all conspiracies of this world put together
and I'm aware that you can take what I've said today as another message of pessimism
and another version of the end of the world but I've just given you the truth as my heart
has learned it in the decades of trying as much as I could to follow Christ and if you listen to this
with the openness of your heart you'll recognize that in fact this is a message of hope and
optimism yes the world will come down crumbling because of our sin but yes also there is something
we can do about it we can become the saints God created us to become and in doing so we can save
this crumbling sinful fallen world and in doing so we don't do anything extraordinary we simply
do what God created us to do we simply fulfil our vocations not as Christians but as human beings
you my brother and my sister underneath your sinfulness underneath your hopelessness and
your fullness you are so beautiful and you are so valuable you are of such value your worth is
so great that God himself became incarnate to save you what more can there be
your sin and my sin can trigger the end of this world nothing else my brother and my sister
because everything else is of the world and is nothing with
the world your sin and my sin can trigger the end of this world but just as
real as that your potential for holiness your virtue and mind can save
this world if only we stick together if only we support each other if only we fight this
good fight in which the only enemy is the devil not any other human being but the devil.
Be blessed to the core of your being, my brother and my sister. Amen, amen, amen.