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Most-Holy Theotokos praying for the world
"Once,
when St. Iakovos [of Evia] was casting out demons from a wretched demoniac, his
ears heard: 'Hey Iakovos, you should know! The knees of Panagia have withered
from praying for all of you.' What are we doing? Are we worthy of these prayers
or do we fall and get carried away from our passions and fall into sin? And if
we fall, do we go afterwards to kneel under the stole of a spiritual father,
that our sins might be washed away? Because, we will have to give an account
for our deeds, our desires, our thoughts...so while there is still time, let us
repent! Let us change our way of thinking and our way of life, to enter into
the space of our Church. She is the ark of our salvation, that we might partake
of the Spotless Mysteries, in Confession and Divine Communion, and when we
commune, we become even more closely related to our Panagia, because our
Panagia hosted within her womb the Son of God and her Son, and when we commune,
we host, we give a dwelling-place within us, within our body, to God, like our Panagia."
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from a sermon of Elder Gabriel of St. David's Monastery in Evia on the Feast of
the Dormition of the Theotokos
Most-Holy
Theotokos save us!
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