Copy
of the wondrous icon of Panagia Vimatarissa of Vatopedi Monastery
Panagia had a silent life. Within, however,
she prayed ceaselessly! Her prayer of the heart did not have any measure of
comparison. It is something inconceivable to men, and even to the Angels, and
because of this Panagia is the rector of all of the teachers of noetic prayer.
A
short time before Panagia left this world, the disciples of Christ entreated
her to give them a unique teaching, as a spiritual inheritance. Panagia told
them:
"Life
is like trade, and man resembles a merchant. Blessed is he who trades rightly
with the time of his life! Trade your life as my Son said, that you might gain
the Kingdom of the Heavens."
We use
our time, either doing good works to obtain the Kingdom of the Heavens, or
working sins, towards our damnation.
-Elder
Ephraim of St. Andrew Skete
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