There are moments in life when you are not able to make a wish, because speech ceases and then you feel the need to express yourself only through prayers and blessings.
Metropolitan Nafpaktos Hierotheos
A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain
carry out their words
A few brothers who had lay persons approached Abba Felix and begged him to say a word to them. But the old man kept silent. After they had asked for a long time he said to them “you wish to hear a word,” they said “yes Abba”. Then the old man said to them “there are no such words nowadays. When the brothers used to consult their elders, and when they did what was asked of them, God would show them how to speak. However now, because they ask without doing that which they hear , God has withdrawn the grace of His Word from the elders, and they do not find anything to say, because there is no longer anyone who carries out their words.” Hearing this the brothers groaned, saying “Pray for us Abba”
Metropolitan Nafpaktos Hierotheos
A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain
tell me a word
A word spoken from the heart of the hermit as from the Holy Spirit, in the language of the desert, is considered real and authentic; and the one who requests it, receives it as the fruit of Grace without elaborating on it in his mind. This “word” from the spiritual father is absolutely necessary for the one who asks. The “word” comes from a soul which is the friend of God, Wounded by the love of God, and is spoken in accordance with the measure of the “thirst” of the one who asks.
Metropolitan Nafpaktos Hierotheos
A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain
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