Sometimes, a
person who has been attending services and going to church, leaves and gets
lost for months and for years…. And then he returns with his head hanging low…
I ask him:
“What have you found outside the church? If you found something good, tell me
and I will come with you!”
“I haven’t
found anything, father!
What could I
have found?! Outside, there is a big theater, full of actors.” – he says to me.
This acting
is so ingrained in us, that people are acting even during confessions, even
before death. I have witnessed and seen this with my own eyes.
A person is
dying and he is confessing with a posture… What a great tragedy this is…
This is a
tragedy that we have acquired outside, we became actors and we expect applause
from the audience.
How happy and
pleased we are when people applaud for us….
Being in this
condition, how can we even speak about our Heavenly Homeland and our aspiration
to return there...
How can a
phony ever be there?
Only a
truthful, frank and open person can enter the Heavenly Kingdom!
Archpriest Theodore Gignadze
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