“We must speak with children about
the dangers of temptation. Toward the end of the 1950's a new epoch
dawned in Europe, and two misfortunes came quickly upon us: the
post-christian era and globalism, along with the erosion of faith and
the crumbling of morality.
Now that I have reached old age I have
begun to understand that in this time the last attack of the devil
has begun, and it is directed against the treasures of the Orthodox
faith and Christian life.
Globalism is like a huge mill that
grinds everything; the result is an unrecognizable mixture in which
no one will retain his personhood, and self-knowledge is lost. Now
everything will be easy, everything will be allowed – total
freedom, for the Church has stood as a hindrance and barrier (to
these things).
Fr. Gregory of Mt. Athos
Translated from Russian. Athonite
Elders, Moscow, 2011.
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