Our Minster has been infested with "elders", who guide the pure and lead them to trade-in, as they devotion.
Routinely they are hieromonks, as well as everyday archimandrites, who sport read a lot about the real Elders and they reaffirm their words or they convey their lives, creating illusions on the credulous and they soil for themselves a importance for soul a honorable and divinely-illumined chief, even whereas they sport none of the attributes of the holy Elders.
The outcome is that plentiful brethren are soul mystified in a cruel cult of qualities, and moderately of opening their minds to come into being on the spiritual path of a life according to Christ, they fib besotted on some demonstrative property, apparent and clear, and they rally round their ethics as if they are supposedly progressing, to the same degree they deference anything their "chief" says. Badly, gift are plentiful examples and we want not wrap up our eyes everyplace we are de rigueur to sport them bulky open.
It is trying for these self-proclaimed "elders" to recognize their mirage and be humbled. Their press is to sport spiritual children, logical, limp and to work together with them for anything occurrence of theirs, whether it is for a monastery or a parish. Band who generally map them are not dexterous to reveal their insincerity. They sport limited information, they do not observe a lot, and they are dragged drink by their positive "chief" by play in docility to them in view of the fact that all together maintaining all activist and sinful traditions. Systematically they summon their "chief" with they converse with their brethren in their go through to bend them that anything may be their decisions on soothing or huge issues of their usual life, and not easily, are courteous and no one can mystery them or distinguish them doubtfully, to the same degree they sport the blessing of their "chief". Surely this is a sickened devoutness, which prerequisite be combated opposed to by spiritual fathers.
At some attack we prerequisite thorough that naivety is one thing and modesty and devoutness is marginal. We are in bother for sometimes empowering evil and immaculate people and subsequently that the spiritual life is that which is optional by our zeal for knowledge. Alas! Consequentially, all fit within the Minster. But we prerequisite not funding the leading responsibility to the famished and deluded.
The true Elders are few and unobtrusive. They do not make resemblance and they escape from soul a look on. They help people religiously, in a simple look, fading tying them up and enforcing them. They try to fire up a decent consideration, to claim by themselves above about the word of God and gaze at the sweetness of the spiritual life, renouncing the activist mind and extreme cares which lead to apathy. These Elders want be an try out for all clergy. It is not an easy issue. It implies cleanliness of life, get better, modesty and faultlessness in our intentions.
Source: "Orthodoxos Typos", 9 Dignified 2013. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
