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Igumen Gregory (Zaiens), Elder Sophrony (Sakharov)
Psychology helps those in the West, but it is a dreadful when the Orthodox learn psychology and substitute it for the neptic tradition of the Church.
The undermining of peoples’ moral foundation that we are witnessing now may lead to the dehumanization of the world. It is no coincidence that futurologists now raise the “post-human” theme more often, while “transhumanism”—a concept of nearly overcoming human nature and the appearance of a new class of rational beings—is becoming more and more popular.
Dmitry Lapa
One of the greatest and most venerated “insular saints” of Wales is St. Cadfan.
Hieromonk Pavel (Scherbachev)
The life filled with blessedness, which according to the Savior’s words, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (Jn. 10:10) man is called to inherit, is taken away from the wretch by the demon through passions and sin. Instead of becoming the foal of an ass upon which Christ seats Himself and leads him into the Kingdom of Heaven, the Jerusalem on high, he becomes a filthy swine, drowning in the sea of sins and passions.
Renouncing all physical comforts, he attended only to prayer, fasting, vigils and countless prostrations, to the point that those around him became concerned for him. One day, as he venerated the icon of the Beheading of Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist, he was seized by the desire to emulate him and accomplish his repentance by martyrdom. He wept as he kissed the icon of the Holy Forerunner, begging him to make him worthy of following after him for the love of Christ.
