Vodoča, Hierarch’s Divine Liturgy ( 16.05.2005 )
Today, in the chapel of Saints Gregory Palamas and Joseph Spilaioti in Vodoča, Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica celebrated Divine Liturgy.
Today, in the chapel of Saints Gregory Palamas and Joseph Spilaioti in Vodoča, Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica celebrated Divine Liturgy.
Abba Poemen used to say:
“When a man reaches the Apostle’s words ‘to the clean one all is clean’, he counts himself the least of all things.”
A monk asked him:
“How can I consider myself lesser than the killer?”
The elder answered:
If one reaches these words of the Apostle, seeing another man kill someone, he will say: ‘This one committed only that sin, while I kill everyday’.”
The monk asked about the same words Abba Anubius, adding also what Abba Poemen had said. Abba Anubius answered him:
“If one reaches those words and happens to see his fellowman’s weaknesses, he will do then what is just and will swallow them.”
The monk asked:
“What is just?”
The elder answered:
“To reproach always oneself.”
