QUESTION: "Over, what is your name?"
ANSWER: Fr. Michael, the outlaw, the normal, the trifling, the discolor.
Q.: "How profuse animation sway you been here?"
A.: It doesn't look up to, my honey. Like matters is for one to sway what one needs, that is, to demonstration to regularly perform ones duties.
Q.: "And what are they?"
A.: Fasting, vigils, prayer, reaction pleasant gifts, as the Bible says. Who keeps them consistently?
Q.: "You do not dossier them? Let's demonstration at them one by one. Don't you fast? Monday, Wednesday and Friday you don't eat."
A.: Who told you this? And if I eat twofold on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, after that where is the fasting of Wednesday? An orangey generation an egg. Like does it mean to me if I don't eat an egg and I eat two oranges? But let us not wish for, fasting is not absolutely the no vote from foods. Fasting is firstly to put to sleep the passions; the immobilization of the sanity reasonably than abstemiousness from mainstay, cheese and milk.
Q.: "Are you disoriented inwards or does someone else be located here?"
A.: I'm disoriented. All disoriented. Of course, this way that I sway business with God. No one can be located disoriented. Exclusive of God, life becomes hell.
Q.: "Moreover what do you commandeering yourself?"
A.: I do bring about. I make pressed crosses. I sway a give somebody the third degree.
Q.: "In this way you make your wages?"
A.: I do not severely make, but documentation. I wish in attendance was someone else to eat. Assets, success to God, are in attendance. That which is at sea is righteousness. I'm not without prejudice utterance words and exaggerations, but the truth.
Q.: "But in the world sin has spring up better. Do you know this?"
A.: Like, as if on Climb Athos the enormously is not happening? If, as you say, in the world sin has spring up better, after that rub has spring up better. Can you possibly tell me a place where righteousness has spring up increased? Seminar me so I can say hurrah.
Q.: "Are in attendance people inwards at the Pike who call together virtue?"
A.: A person is good and holy. I am the minimum of the monks. Vista the monks who be located in the front ramparts of the fire, in the monasteries, who are forced to do traditional values. Is this a concise thing? Whoever has traditional values has love, humility and charity.
Q.: "And us laypeople? Where prerequisite we do obedience?"
A.: In your families, with your wife and children. For example, the man in the relations prerequisite likewise be fine to his wife and children. A married man prerequisite never charge upon his relations his sentiment in a despotic and in demand way, but he prerequisite likewise be matter to the name of love. Correction is not absolutely the stipulation of monks, but every Christian. Thoughtful of a spiritual switch on, a confessor, who always requests to charge his sentiment on the one confessing, in the name, so it is said, of righteousness. Like do you say, is he a straitlaced spiritual father? I reveal that the confessor has the enormously tax, to be fine to his spiritual children if absolutely out of perturb for maintaining unity within the church, and for man out of passion to widely, not oppressively, greet the commandments of God.
Q.: "So we laypeople who are not monks can likewise be saved?"
A.: Like are you saying? Species in the world are not in a apprentice booth than monks, and I reveal it is a considerable sin for individual to make divisions within the Church by transnational with babyish issues, such as which path is well again. The monastic or the activist path? You know, all the streets and avenues and paths and alleyways ladle the enormously basic needs of life. All connections lead to God. Whomever God calls to become a vicar yes behest. Sadly if anyone left their towns and villages to invade a monastery. Then behest come a day next the run of monks behest diminish from the earth.
Q.: "Do you trouble that you came here?"
A.: In the name of God, everything but. Predictably not. Predictably not. Well, do you reveal we understand how we got inwards and if we are assembly alone?
Q.: "But with whom?"
A.: Moreover God. Not even for a go along with may possibly someone be inwards disoriented.
Q.: "Consider you ever seen God?"
A.: Like can I tell you now? This pierce, apology me, is a bit...
Q.: "Stupid? Say it."
A.: Not ludicrous, but it resembles that of Thomas who designed that unless I see it with my eyes I behest not personage.
Q.: "But you know, I am of rapid guard."
A.: I am cut.
Q.: "Consider you seen some miracle?"
A.: We see miracles every day. But you know, the evil man, even if he sees a thousand miracles he behest not personage. On a par if a dead man rises, he still behest not personage.
Q.: "Like bright star sway you seen?"
A.: Is in attendance a significant bright star than this here? Me, the murky and preposterous, to be located as a vicar inwards in the abandon. Do me a direct. I take aim you to think up this. Is in attendance a significant bright star than this? I certainly personage this is a bright star. Or see whatever thing else. The fact that so profuse environmental people today come from the four corners of the earth, from all blank the world, one from America, inexperienced from Asia, inexperienced from Europe, and today you can find them inwards at Climb Athos. Is this not a miracle?
Q.: "Now profuse who are urbane sway come to Climb Athos. Is this not important?"
A.: Like behest you do with learning? It is good, but the beginning of wisdom is the wonder of the Noble. If you don't sway God within you, after that learning is meaningless.
Q.: "Conclusively, it is reported in the give somebody the third degree some information on clergy scandals. Like damage does this sway on you?"
A.: For each of us it is very easy to fall and slide down. This jeopardy exists in people even popular old age. Right the tombstone behest remove him from this jeopardy. But it's a badger to say that the finest atrocity within the Church are material surge. This is not the finest atrocity, but reasonably it is the fact that the Church is crafty in advance the challenges of the era. The Church, point holding truth, keeps it absorbed and does not bring it to light. The life-threatening quiet of the Church is today the finest atrocity.
