St.
Catherine the Great Martyr and All-wise
St.
Catherine, my beloved, is a censure to our generation. She is a censure first
to [many] women, for they have their minds solely on bodily beauty and are
disinterested with spiritual beauty. And she is secondly a censure to men, for
they show themselves to be lower than this woman. And thirdly, she is a censure
to us clerics, for we don't bring souls near Christ like she did, but more
likely, we cast them away...One woman brought 352 souls to Christ! And you,
Father, how many souls have you brought to Christ? Take a piece of chalk and
write: we are 8,000 priests***, while the twelve apostles turned the world
upside-down, and one woman, St. Catherine, brought 352 souls to Christ...Take
up your chalk and count...If each of us brought near to the Church 300 people,
we would have millions [of Orthodox Christians]...
-Metropolitan
Avgoustinos Kantiotes (+2010)
***The Metropolitan is referring to the
number of clerics of his Church in Greece.
Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord
Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us! Amen!
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