The monks once inquired of Paisius the Great: ‘Father, speak to us a word of salvation. How should we live according to God?’ The elder replied to them: ‘Go and keep the commandments of God and preserve the tradition of the Fathers.’ The tradition of the Fathers is the experience of the saints in the spiritual field, the enormous experience of nearly two thousand years, the experience of many hundreds and thousands of holy men and women. What an extremely rich depository of wisdom! What an immense mass of proofs of every truth of Holy Scripture! All that wealth, all that wisdom, all those proofs, all that experience, the Protestants have rejected! Oh, what inexpressible madness! Oh, the poverty of beggars!
—St. Nikolai Velimirovic’, Prologue of Ohrid, June 19th Reflection
Oh, the poverty of beggars!
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