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The mystery of God and the mystery of man urgently occupy our minds. We are astonished before the indescribable humility of the Incarnate Word and His love that is crucified unto the end. As a refuge in our struggle, we have the words of Scripture, the invocation of the all-holy Name of the Lord, and the Mysteries of our Church. In the fierce tempest of the times, we are safely established on the unshakeable rock of the word of our Holy Fathers. This word opens new horizons before us and helps us to understand our painful sufferings as the path to the blessedness of the Day of the Lord. It initiates us into the otherness of the spotless love of Christ while at the same time chastising us so we may be freed from the suffocating embrace of self-love and embrace our brethren with brotherly love in Christ.
In the modern era, everything around us is shaken, and values are being levelled. Yet, within the bosom of the Church, we have peace because we know from the experience and the words of our Saints that throughout the ages, the ‘fierce storm has never overwhelmed the vessel of the Church, but the Church has calmed the storm.’ And as we see misfortunes increasing, we lift up our heads with hope toward heaven, knowing from the unfailing word of Almighty Jesus that ‘our redemption draweth nigh’.

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AuthorArchimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

NarratorA Monk of the Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist

LanguageEnglish

FormatAudiobook

Total listening time10 hours, 55 minutes

Print length315 pages

PublisherThe Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist

Edition1st edition

Publication year2024

ISBN978-1-80746-015-0

Chapter Title	Duration
Opening Credits	00:34
Prologue	03:03
Chapter 1 - The Mystery of God and the Mystery of Man	55:49
Chapter 2 - The Humility of the Incarnate Word and Man's Striving to Attain the Supranatural Gift of Likeness to Him	66:17
Chapter 3 - The Mystical and Crucified Divine Love	32:57
Chapter 4 - Interpretation of Words of Scripture	28:52
Chapter 5 - Mystical Depths of Hesychasm	48:58
Chapter 6 - Spiritual Fatherhood	45:38
Chapter 7 - From Trials to the Day of the Lord	29:35
Chapter 8 - The Mystical Otherness of the Love of Christ	44:18
Chapter 9 - The Bond of Brotherly Love in Christ	36:21
Chapter 10 - The Challenges of Our Times	77:10
Chapter 11 - Relations between Parents and Children	44:05
Chapter 12 - Saints Silouan and Sophrony	68:01
Chapter 13 - Miscellaneous	72:58
End Credits	00:33

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‘The fiery sword no longer guards the gate of Eden’

Saint Simeon the New Theologian likens the Scriptures to a locked chest full of treasures. To open this chest, however, man must strive to fulfil all the commandments and thus receive the Spirit of the Comforter, Who opens unto him the words of the Scriptures and reveals the divine life they contain.

Only when we surrender ‘to the end’ and follow Christ do the greatest potentials of our nature unfold within us and we become capable of receiving the Gospel in its eternal dimension.

The Son and Word of God holds the messianic ‘key of David’ (Rev. 3:7). When the ‘key of David’ is turned to the right, the heart ‘opens’ and nothing can close it until it ‘breaks’ with the overflowing love of Christ. Yet God never violates the freedom of His creature. He does not force Himself into our hearts if we are not disposed to open the door to Him. He is well-pleased when we also make Him our target, when we stand before the door of His mercy and knock with all our might. And when the door of the heart is knocked from both sides, the burdens of the passions are crushed and the Christian lives his personal Passover, God’s feast with man.

— Excerpt from: Knock, and It Shall Be Opened Unto You • Prologue (p. 9) • Archimandrite Peter

The Lord sows His word in our heart; and if we accept it, we receive the grace of repentance and are reborn in the spirit. The Lord continually sows on earth, whereas we sow in heaven. Every time we pour out our heart with many tears, humility and repentance before the Lord, He marks that hour, that day, with the seal of His grace. And if every day is marked with this divine seal in the hidden mystical Liturgy that we offer to God in our solitude, in the end these marks will swallow up the time of our whole life and make it eternity.

— Excerpt from: Knock, and It Shall Be Opened Unto You

Our justification is the earnest of our reconciliation with God that we receive from the Spirit of Truth, which we attract when we live and repent truthfully. It is more than a certain sense of peace; it is a wound of the heart, the circumcision of the heart, which the apostle describes as ‘the marks of the Lord Jesus’. That blessed wound of man’s heart witnesses that he belongs entirely to God. All Christians are destined to receive the gift of spiritual adoption when the Holy Spirit continually cries within them ‘Abba, Father.’

— Excerpt from: Knock, and It Shall Be Opened Unto You