Sportime. gr:''Saint Paisios: Thousands of people at his tomb from every corner of Greece – The only "popular pilgrimage" that smells of eternity''

Sportime. gr:

''Saint Paisios: Thousands of people at his tomb from every corner of Greece – The only "popular pilgrimage" that smells of eternity''

Social "explosion" in the world's love for the Saint in recent years - A blessed phenomenon that shows that nothing has been lost

...After the screening of the series that literally made all of Greece cry with its sanctified messages, the already busy pilgrimages associated with the life of Saint Paisios, the attendance recorded an "explosion" of new pilgrims.  Both in Panagouda on Mount Athos, as well as in Konitsa and the Monastery of Stomio, thousands of pilgrims rush to feel something of the blessing left behind by the greatest Saint of our time....

Faithful people from every corner of Greece have been arriving since Friday morning at the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian. Defying the expenses and the kilometers, ignoring the scorching sun, bypassing the worldly joys of summer, they go by the thousands to rest on the headrest of a sanctified tomb. A tomb that is infinitely more life-giving than many living wandering "tombs" that dominate or teach this hermit country.

Every pilgrim who either physically - or mentally kneels before Saint Paisios, receives golden purses of free grace.  His soul is healed by the balm that despite our decline (individual and national), the Saint is not going to abandon us. If he was anxious about his place while he was alive, bleeding his knees from repentance and writing a letter as a legacy for the future, how much more so will this “radio operator of God” now come running who now transmits his miracles directly from the frequency of Paradise.

We hear a lot of sadness in our days, we see phenomena of eschatological decline, we are constantly concerned with the invasion of darkness and its infinite forms. As humans, we often become darkened by this discouraging climate.  But somewhere you will turn your gaze and you will see a Saint Paisios in an icon, in a book, in a vigil, looking at you with that look of deep grace and whispering sweetly to you "...that His mercy is for ever, alleluia"....

...You see young people, old people, families, travelers from abroad, every class and education and profession, flooding the paths that the Saint walked, searching for the traces of his walk, discussing his words in the wells of pure company, resting in every word of his that remained on paper, invoking him in every dark hour, having him as a shield against every thought of little faith, feeling him as a father and brother and friend and comrade, as a beat of our heart that was added to beat continuously for Christ and Greece....