Father Daniel, how can a person today, in a "dislocated", alienated, deified time, save his soul and that of his neighbors?
- We must get to know ourselves well, and find out who we are and what we are, what drives us and leads us in life! To which God do we serve!
If it prevails materially, which many aspire to today - then we are at a loss, the temptations are great, and the Lord did not say that we will easily reach the Kingdom of Heaven.
He gave us fasting, prayer, the Gospel... He said: "Don't be afraid, just believe..."
Prayer, fasting and love for our neighbors lead us to faith.
Nowadays, people have distanced themselves from God our Father, from themselves, from other people. Ours is only what we give!
People waste time on useless things. They don't know or they don't want to know, "that we came to this world with nothing and that we will go before the Lord in the same way", we will take only good deeds and folded hands...
We must forgive our neighbors... To forgive means not to be offended, to let go of the person with peace and to forgive him all the bad things! Pray for him from afar without hesitation and without a "stone hearted".
The Lord will not be merciful to us, if we are not merciful to others! He does not forgive - our sins, if we do not forgive our neighbors, those who have offended us.
Elder Daniel of Dubrava