The shop is still there, still in business! Sadly, no one like St. Porphyrios serves there now. The chapel looks awful, as though it has been forgotten; but yes, the electronic shop continues, as a sign of what the culture values. St. Porphyrios returned to Mt. Athos, in order to be buried on the Old Calendar, which he dearly loved. The area around the Polyclinic gets worse and worse. But the silly, noisy shop prevails, to this day. Profund liturgies, served there in Athens by a saint? We are not worthy of such a great blessing.
Lord have mercy on me. I used to balk and be horrified by a chanter who would do a goat-vibrato when chanting. I then heard a perfect (tonally) chanter who had such hate in her heart that it sounded to me like prideful clanging brass, then another who was tone deaf and inserted all kinds of jazz-scat tones. Lord have mercy. And then I stopped hearing these chanterrs and slowly was made , thank be to God, immune to all but the words. Keep me , my Lord, keep me .
He says “I heard nothing” so I think he was so focused on Christ and the Liturgy that there was no room for the other noise. The noetic energy of his heart outflanked the music like a large ripple overcomes and eliminates a small ripple.
If something is entirely out of one’s control then God often sends His grace in a special way. If it happened for St. Porphyrios why couldn’t it for the laity? I don’t know what the laity’s experience was, but the silence of the matter in the book leads me to think the laity did not leave the parish or create a huge fight with the saint. The laity likely followed the saint’s lead and by his prayers and guidance they received grace similar to what he did.
St Porphyrios, please pray to heal my broken heart and heal my body.
Glory to Jesus Christ in His Saints ☦️
Saint Porphyrios pray to God for us, sinner ☦️
That was a beautiful testimony from the Saint, thank you .
Great book, I read it this year. Now I’m reading “the mountain of silence”. Also a very informative and well written book..
Amen! Thank you for sharing!
The shop is still there, still in business! Sadly, no one like St. Porphyrios serves there now. The chapel looks awful, as though it has been forgotten; but yes, the electronic shop continues, as a sign of what the culture values. St. Porphyrios returned to Mt. Athos, in order to be buried on the Old Calendar, which he dearly loved. The area around the Polyclinic gets worse and worse. But the silly, noisy shop prevails, to this day. Profund liturgies, served there in Athens by a saint? We are not worthy of such a great blessing.
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Lord have mercy on me. I used to balk and be horrified by a chanter who would do a goat-vibrato when chanting. I then heard a perfect (tonally) chanter who had such hate in her heart that it sounded to me like prideful clanging brass, then another who was tone deaf and inserted all kinds of jazz-scat tones. Lord have mercy. And then I stopped hearing these chanterrs and slowly was made , thank be to God, immune to all but the words. Keep me , my Lord, keep me .
St. Porphyrios was able to completey tune out the noise, or just not let it bother him?
He says “I heard nothing” so I think he was so focused on Christ and the Liturgy that there was no room for the other noise. The noetic energy of his heart outflanked the music like a large ripple overcomes and eliminates a small ripple.
@@OrthodoxWisdom thanks. Intercede for us, St. Porphyrios.
I’ll add, and that’s exactly why he’s a Saint. Lord have mercy on us! ☦️
@@OrthodoxWisdom ...BUT what about his poor congregation? They could still hear and therefore not appreciate or pray during Liturgy
If something is entirely out of one’s control then God often sends His grace in a special way. If it happened for St. Porphyrios why couldn’t it for the laity? I don’t know what the laity’s experience was, but the silence of the matter in the book leads me to think the laity did not leave the parish or create a huge fight with the saint. The laity likely followed the saint’s lead and by his prayers and guidance they received grace similar to what he did.
Golgotha Anamnesis not drama