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Saturday, January 10, 2026

There they will all remain, in the depths of the earth.

They are good at making money. That's what the world's tycoons do. That's what they do, and that's what they seek. They have all the wealth, and they tell you how we're going to enlarge it and how we're going to increase it. That's what they seek with Russia. Russia has a significant amount of wealth and oil reserves. They tell you that they'll take it all on their own. They'll become a superpower. We'll get in too. Let's have a nuclear war. We'll hide in the shelters. The people will trample on it. They'll get killed, and we'll come out and be the richest people. That's how they think. It's the bad agriculture of the Gospels. But the Holy Elder Vasily Kapsokalyvitis has said that none of those who enter such nuclear shelters will come out alive. They will close them because that's where the rights of the land will operate. They will be lost in what they themselves created and will never see the light again. They will remain in the depths and in the darkness that the devil, Satan, has created for them in hell. Why? Why did they not put man above all? They put self-interest above all. And what does this mean that they expelled God, who spoils their plans? Christ spoils. And now, let's move on to the next thing. Because we see why Christ says he spoils their plans. Because Christ is the sovereign, the creator of the universe, but he is the humble one. He is the one who distributes, and they say, "You know something, my Christians, when you go, when we leave this world, the wealth that we will carry is from what we gave, not from what we took." Pay attention. The wealth that Father Panagiotis was talking about. The bricks we collect are from what we give from our offering to our neighbor. This is important. The neighbor is at the door. It is the gate to heaven. Not to poets. We don't always have to give, you know, we have put charity, and that is ugly. We have included charity in the money. Charity is the friend of man. Be a friend to the grandmother who is alone at 90 years old. The despot, the bishop of Nea Smyrni, went. Chrysostom, the first bishop of Nea Smyrni would go in the evenings instead of sitting in his little house, sleeping. So he would go and sit and serve as a nurse to the people who had no one, the needy, at the Evangelismos, in the hospitals. He would go and catch the young people in Exarchia, in their hangouts, and talk to them about Christ. With a summer cap, he would go and find them. This was a mission. He would not eat at home . Let's do one by one, so you can see the difference between a Christian. He would not eat at home . He would tell his priests to find me the poor of your parish and I would go to their homes. And so he would go full of stands. He would take meat; he would take all the food that the family needed. He would go with two or three bags and say, my children, I leave you this food. Tomorrow I will come to eat with you. And after he had felt the pain of others. This is charity. He would listen to them, he would comfort them. He would tell them that he is a father, and I am here. This is the role of the priest and the bishop. They are not different. The priest and the bishop are not behind the offices doing administrative acts. Administration belongs to others. It is a different field. The priest, the bishop, is a man; he is a missionary. Of course, we made him a paid missionary. He doesn't exist.

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