How can we have the Holy Spirit?
The answer is, for each of us to love
his wife: you who are married your wife, and I who am a monk, my monastic life.
I must love my solitude, and not get
depressed, not get tired, I must stand vigil, and not think that God sent me
here in order to save the whole world, not to think that it is my duty to joke
with this or that person, but to look after my job: I must have my eye on Christ.
When you leave your house and get
married, you leave behind your father, mother, brothers, relatives, and,
instead of your parents, your brothers and relatives, you find a new family.
And having left, don't look behind you, as the Psalm of the Theotokos* says, do
not think of anything from your former family**. For now you have a whole new
world before you, which you must rejoice in, to partake of, to taste, to give
life to. Therefore, all of us must give life to our family, to our love, to the
divinity that we have wedded, as St. Hesychios says. Then our flesh we will be
filled with divinity and we become Christ.
-Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra
*Hear, O daughter, consider, and
incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house;
11 and the king will desire your
beauty. (Psalm 45:10-11)
*Note: The Elder is not implying that
we should not try to help our families as we are able to, but that our spouses
after marriage must always take the first place after God.
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