The Fair of the Spirits

A disciple came to an Elder, troubled, and said:

“Father, today on the street I saw something that has stayed with me and given me no peace. A group of people were performing a scene: one played the demonized, another spoke in an unknown tongue known only to himself, another came and ‘healed’ the sick one, and another shouted about God, gathering onlookers around them. Further on, I saw other people, silent, standing at stands with sectarian books and magazines, smiling and stopping passersby with gentle words. None of it felt clean to me, but I cannot say why. What do you say, Father?”

And the Elder, after a moment of silence, answered: “My son, you saw correctly, and precisely because you saw correctly, it troubled you. This isn’t the reaction of a narrow mind or a closed heart — it’s the natural watchfulness of one who smells falsehood even before he can name it.

What you saw on the street wasn’t evangelism, it was theater. One man plays the demonized, another mimics unknown tongues, another ‘heals’ on cue, and behind them stands the recruiter — all four are actors in a play with a single purpose: to sell credibility. St. Paul named this thing plainly, without softening it: even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light, so it is no surprise that his servants disguise themselves as servants of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). It doesn’t matter how convincing the performance looks; the source of a manifestation isn’t proven by its emotional effect on a crowd, but by its fruit and by humility. And humility is precisely what such a street spectacle lacks — what it has instead is stage direction.

Christ Himself gave us, in advance, the mark by which to recognize wolves in sheep’s clothing: ‘By their fruits you will know them’ (Matthew 7:15-16). A performance that needs a crowd, a mask, and a script to ‘prove’ God’s presence is not carried by the Spirit, but by a director. God does not demonstrate Himself in the marketplace like a conjurer paying his own claque. St. John Chrysostom taught that true miracles are not worked for spectacle but for the quiet benefit of the soul in need — rarely before a paid or specially gathered audience.

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov calls this state prelest — spiritual delusion — when a person, or a whole assembly, mistakes for the working of grace what is in fact the working of imagination or, worse, of cunning spirits exploiting the onlooker’s weakness and spiritual hunger.

Scripture commands us plainly not to believe every spirit: ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God’ (1 John 4:1). This testing is not optional — it’s a duty. Whoever believes without testing, simply because he was impressed, resembles the crowd in Acts 19, who watched the sons of Sceva try to cast out demons in Jesus’ name without knowing Jesus — and it was the demon who beat them, not the other way around.

As for the stands with ‘sectarian books and magazines’ quietly recruiting with a smile and a pamphlet: the method differs, the spirit is the same. Not by accident does the Apostle say bluntly: ‘Even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you — let him be accursed’ (Galatians 1:8). It isn’t the seller’s gentleness, the glossy paper, or the warm tone of ‘let us help you understand Scripture’ that validates a thing — it is its agreement with the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3), kept unchanged in Christ’s Church for two thousand years, not reinvented every few decades by some new group with new literature.

You are not called to judge the souls of those people, my son — many of them may themselves be deceived, victims before they are hunters. You are called, however, not to let yourself be drawn into their net, and to call the thing by its name when you see it: not gospel, but spiritual merchandise; not the Spirit of God, but the spirit of the world dressed in religious garb. Your prayer, as you pass such a ‘spectacle,’ can be simple and sharp as a knife: *Lord, keep me — and those being deceived — from the spirit that disguises itself as light.’”

Iarmarocul duhurilor

Un ucenic a venit la un Bătrân, tulburat, și i-a zis: „Părinte, am văzut azi pe stradă un lucru ce mi-a rămas în minte și nu-mi dă pace. Un grup de oameni juca o scenetă: unul făcea pe demonizatul, altul vorbea într-o limbă necunoscută numai de el știută, altul venea și-l „vindeca” pe cel bolnav, iar altul striga despre Dumnezeu și aduna privitori în jurul lor. Mai încolo, am văzut și niște oameni tăcuți, stând la standuri cu cărți și reviste, zâmbind și oprindu-i pe trecători cu vorbă blândă. Nu mi s-a părut curat niciunul din lucrurile acestea, dar nu știu să-ți spun de ce anume. Ce zici, Părinte?”

Iar Bătrânul, după ce a tăcut puțin, a răspuns: „Fiule, ai văzut bine, și tocmai pentru că ai văzut bine te-a tulburat. Nu e reacție de om îngust la minte sau lipsit de „deschidere”, ci e trezvia firească a celui care simte mirosul de fals chiar și atunci când nu-i poate spune numele.

Ce ai văzut pe stradă nu e evanghelizare, e teatru. Unul face pe demonizatul, altul mimează limbi necunoscute, altul „vindecă” la comandă, iar în spate stă omul care racolează — toți patru sunt actori într-o piesă cu un singur scop: să vândă credibilitate. Sfântul Apostol Pavel a numit lucrul acesta cu numele lui adevărat, fără ocolișuri: chiar Satana se preface în înger de lumină — de aceea nu-i de mirare că și slujitorii lui se prefac în slujitori ai dreptății (2 Corinteni 11:14-15). Nu contează cât de convingător pare spectacolul; sursa unei manifestări nu se dovedește prin efectul ei asupra emoției mulțimii, ci prin roadă și prin smerenie. Iar smerenie, într-un asemenea spectacol de stradă, nu găsești — găsești regie.

Mântuitorul ne-a lăsat, dinainte, semnul de recunoaștere al lupilor îmbrăcați în piele de oaie: „După roadele lor îi veți cunoaște” (Matei 7:15-16). Un spectacol care are nevoie de mulțime, de mască și de scenariu ca să „dovedească” prezența lui Dumnezeu nu e purtat de Duhul, ci de regizor. Dumnezeu nu Se demonstrează în piață, ca un scamator care își plătește claca. Sfântul Ioan Gură de Aur spunea că minunile adevărate nu se fac spre spectacol, ci spre folosul sufletului tăcut al celui care are nevoie — și rareori cu public plătit sau adunat anume pentru asta.

Sfântul Ignatie Briancianinov numește starea aceasta prelest — amăgire duhovnicească — atunci când omul, sau o adunare de oameni, ia drept lucrare a harului ceea ce e, de fapt, lucrare a închipuirii sau, mai rău, a duhurilor viclene care se folosesc de slăbiciunea și de foamea sufletească a privitorului. Iar Scriptura ne poruncește limpede să nu credem orice duh: „Iubiților, nu daţi crezare oricărui duh, ci cercați duhurile dacă sunt de la Dumnezeu” (1 Ioan 4:1). Cercetarea aceasta nu e opțională, e datorie. Cel care crede fără cercetare, doar pentru că a fost impresionat, seamănă cu poporul din Fapte 19, care a văzut fiii lui Sceva încercând să scoată draci cu numele lui Iisus fără să-L cunoască pe Iisus — și a fost demonul cel scos care i-a bătut, nu invers.

Cât despre standurile cu „cărți și reviste” care racolează în tăcere, cu zâmbet și pliant: metoda e alta, duhul e același. Nu întâmplător Apostolul spune răspicat: „Chiar dacă noi sau un înger din cer v-ar propovădui altă Evanghelie decât aceea pe care v-am propovăduit-o — să fie anatema!” (Galateni 1:8). Nu blândețea vânzătorului, nu hârtia lucioasă a revistei, nu tonul cald al „vă putem ajuta să înțelegeți Scriptura” validează un lucru — ci concordanța lui cu credința dată sfinților o dată pentru totdeauna (Iuda 1:3), păstrată neschimbată în Biserica lui Hristos de două mii de ani, nu reinventată la fiecare două-trei decenii de câte un grup nou cu literatură nouă.

Nu ești chemat să judeci sufletele acelor oameni, fiule — poate mulți dintre ei sunt înșelați ei înșiși, victime înainte de a fi vânători. Ești chemat, însă, să nu te lași atras în plasa lor, și să numești lucrul pe nume atunci când îl vezi: nu Evanghelie, ci marfă duhovnicească; nu Duhul lui Dumnezeu, ci duhul lumii îmbrăcat în veșmânt religios. Rugăciunea ta, atunci când treci pe lângă un asemenea „spectacol”, poate fi simplă și tăioasă ca un cuțit: Doamne, ferește-mă și pe mine, și pe cei ce se lasă amăgiți, de duhul care se preface în lumină.”

The Divided Man

“Man has become spiritually divided against himself. Thus enclosed within the chain of his own self-centeredness, the soul feels a wild joy in the outbursts of pleasure and in authoritarian domination — with the result that, instead of healing, it sinks even deeper.”

There was a time when man was one — a whole image, undivided within himself, turned with his entire being toward God. The fall was not merely a mistake; it was an inner rupture: man became divided against himself. He was separated from his own self just as he was separated from God, and ever since, he carries within him two men locked in struggle: the one after the image, who still longs for the light, and the one enslaved to passion, who feeds on darkness and calls it joy.

This is the bitterest mystery of fallen nature: man no longer feels evil as pure suffering, but as wild pleasure. The chain of self-centeredness does not tighten from without, like a foreign punishment; it tightens from within, like an addiction the soul chooses again and again, believing it is feeding itself, when in fact it is consuming itself. The man locked within himself no longer seeks liberation — he seeks repetition. He no longer seeks healing — he seeks intensity. And here lies the deepest sickness of all: the sick man no longer wants the cure, but the taste of his sickness.

The Fathers called this bondage to the passions, but this phrase — “wild joy” — points to something more: it reveals the perversion of joy itself. Joy was given to man for communion, for God, for the beauty of creation — but the divided man tore joy from its source and fastened it instead to passion. This is why unleashed pleasure and authoritarian domination over another touch the very same dark place: both are searches for a power that fills the void left by separation from God. Where humility and self-giving should stand, domination installs itself instead — whether over one’s own body, or over another.

And here lies the cruelest trap of all: the more a man surrenders to this false joy, the more he believes he is drawing closer to healing — because every passion, in the moment of its satisfaction, gives the illusion of peace. But it is the peace of one who has fallen asleep in the cold, not the peace of one who has been healed. This is why the outcome is always the same: instead of rising, man sinks even deeper. Each surrender widens the chain rather than breaking it. Each such “joy” digs the pit deeper beneath his feet, even if for a moment he thought he had found rest.

Healing cannot come from within this same closed circle, because the circle itself is the sickness. What is needed is a rupture of another kind — not the rupture of division, but the rupture of repentance, which cuts the chain from outside it, through the grace of Christ. Only He can reunite what has been divided in man: the wounded image with the lost likeness, true joy with its living source. Until then, man remains with the two within him — and the more he yields to the dark one, believing that is freedom, the deeper he sinks into the very chain he himself, with a kind of joy, has drawn tight.

On the deception called “energy therapy” witchcraft dressed in a mantle of science

You have sensed rightly, brother/sister in Christ, the spirit of this error, for the Spirit of God grants discernment even to the one untrained in books, if his heart remains watchful. What the world today calls “energy therapy” — Reiki, “quantum healing,” “energy recalibration,” crystal therapy — is nothing other than the old witchcraft of manipulating unseen powers, now dressed in the respectable garment of science and wellness. The name has changed, but the work within remains the same.

How this deception actually operates

Let us not stop at bare condemnation, but show clearly the face of this error, so that the unknowing may recognize it when they meet it.

The “energy healer” calls himself “certified” or “attuned” — a certification given not by any spiritual authority, but by other practitioners of the same teaching, in a closed circle that feeds on itself. The session is paid for, like any commercial service, and follows a pattern nearly identical to the sorcery of old, only the tools have changed: instead of incantation, “channeling” a nameless, faceless energy — “universal energy,” “quantum energy,” “the vibration of the universe” — words found nowhere in Scripture and serving no commandment of God, but rather the desires of the paying client: health without repentance, peace without the cross, harmony without struggle against the passions.

To this is added an entire pseudo-scientific apparatus meant to inspire confidence: the word “quantum,” borrowed from physics and emptied entirely of its true meaning, lending an appearance of rigor to a practice that has nothing to do with science; “energy fields” claimed to be measurable yet proven by no instrument; stones and crystals to which are attributed powers of “balancing” the soul, as though grace could be stored in a rock, the way idols of old bore imagined powers. All of these are old techniques of witchcraft, merely reclothed in therapeutic language, so as to appear self-care rather than the summoning of spirits.

And the doctrine behind the practice is as foreign to Truth as its methods: that man has no sin, only “energy blockages”; that the body is a circuit board to be “repaired” without repentance and without confession; that any soul, regardless of faith or manner of life, can receive “healing” merely by paying for a session and by the laying on of hands. This is precisely the structure of the old witchcraft — payment, ritual, a power summoned on command — only moved out of the sorcerer’s hut and into the “wellness” studio.

The first deception: power sought without the Church’s sending

The Holy Fathers teach us that not every power that is felt or that manifests comes from God. Saint Anthony the Great, often tempted by spirits who appeared to him in luminous form and brought feelings of peace and comfort, left his followers the most useful law of the spiritual life: never trust the good feeling, never trust the peace that comes without struggle, but always ask: “Who are you, and whence do you come?” And if that power is troubled by the sign of the Cross or the invocation of the Name of Jesus, then the wolf is unmasked beneath the sheep’s clothing.

The Acts of the Apostles shows us this deception in plain sight: Simon of Samaria, who practiced sorcery and amazed the people with powers he called “the great power of God” (Acts 8:9-10), later wanted to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit with silver, believing that grace could be acquired like merchandise, through payment and technique. Saint Peter answered him sharply: may your silver perish with you, for you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money (Acts 8:20). This is precisely the root of “energy therapy”: the belief that a spiritual power can be bought, learned, certified, and transmitted through technique, without purification of the soul, without repentance, without being sent by God.

The second deception: trust placed in a power, not in its Giver

The Apostle Paul calls us to vigilance: our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spirits of wickedness (Ephesians 6:12). Whoever allows himself to be “worked on” by a nameless energy, without knowing who or what is acting upon his body and soul, willingly places himself under a dominion he cannot judge. True healing does not come from an anonymous, universal force, available to anyone without worthiness — it comes from God, through grace, through prayer, through the Sacraments, and it asks of man humility, not mere openness.

The third deception: comfort without repentance

The most cunning aspect of this modern error is that it offers comfort without the cross, healing without tears, balance without struggle against the passions — “you are fine as you are, your energy is simply blocked,” it says, without any call to repentance. But true comfort always comes after the tears of repentance, never in its place. Saint John Climacus writes that demons often slip in under the guise of “comfort” precisely to lull the fear of God and the soul’s watchfulness to sleep.

What remains for us

For the one tempted by such a calling, there is no need for argument, but a simple step: to tell one’s spiritual father what was heard or felt, to open the Psalter and read a Psalm of repentance, to say the Jesus Prayer — “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner” — and to remember that healing of soul and body is not bought with sessions and certificates, but is sought with a broken heart from the one Physician of souls and bodies.

“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed!” (Galatians 1:9) — not as a curse cast upon the one who has wandered, but as a watch set over the Truth, lest we lose it because of a beautiful name borne by a foreign work.

Patience in Everyday Life

Brother, the lack of patience is not a small weakness, but a wound that deepens day by day. The modern man does not fall because of great sins, but because of haste, a haste that tears his heart piece by piece. Patience is not a psychological exercise, but the place where the soul does not break. When you do not endure, you do not lose only a moment, you lose your very face. When you react without measure, you do not wound only another you disturb your own heart, and when you ignite quickly, you do not burn only a situation you burn the peace Christ places within you. The modern man lives under pressure: noise, fatigue, small injustices, hurried people. There patience is revealed, in the moment when you could respond, but choose to remain whole, in the moment when you could judge, but choose to truly see, in the moment when you could lose yourself, but choose to stay with Christ. The lack of patience is not just a mistake it is a loss. Patience is not just a virtue it is your daily salvation.When you endure, you do not become “better,” but more true, more present, more alive in Christ. Patience is the place where the modern man keeps his soul. Without it, everything becomes reaction. With it, everything becomes a path. And know this: the measure of your patience is not seen in how much you endure, but in how much you remain with Christ when everything pushes you to lose yourself.

A Word to the Romanian People, in the Time of the Congress of the Erring Ones that Has Filled Bucharest with Jehovah’s Witnesses 20-06-2026

Brothers, this word that follows is not against people, but against deception and our own negligence.

Brothers, listen, for the times no longer endure gentle words. Bucharest has been filled with delusion, with the congress of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and not only they are the great danger, but your own sleep, you who were baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Do not be surprised that deception walks freely through the capital; be surprised that you, the sons of Orthodoxy, have allowed the candle to go out, for where the light of Christ does not burn, any shadow enters. Christ, the Son of God, does not change. He is the Truth, not an opinion; He is the Way, not an alternative; He is the Life, not an interpretation. And whoever seeks Him outside the Church seeks water in the desert. Know that not all who speak His Name also follow Him. The true Christ is the One preached by the Holy Apostles, guarded by the Ecumenical Councils, lived by the Holy Fathers; and whoever departs from this order departs from the Truth.

The Mother of God is not a detail, but the mother of the Christian people; and whoever rejects Her rejects Her Son. Whoever does not honor Her cannot have peace. She is the shield of the Romanians, the protection of the nation, the guardian of the humble. Brothers, hold fast to the Mother of God, for deception flees from Her as smoke flees from the wind.

The Holy Apostles did not preach two Gospels, but one. The Holy Fathers did not guard two faiths, but one. They did not change the Truth according to the times, but remained steadfast until death. Whoever comes today with another Gospel, with another teaching, with another Christ, is not sent by God. Do not receive foreign teachings, even if they come with a smile, with politeness, with the Holy Scripture in hand. Holy Scripture without the Church is a sword in the hand of a child.

Romanians, have you forgotten the Divine Liturgy? Have you forgotten confession? Have you forgotten prayer? Have you forgotten fasting? Have you forgotten humility? Have you forgotten that you are children of Christ, not spiritual tourists? And now you wonder that deception knocks at your door? Where there is no light, darkness enters; where there is no vigilance, delusion enters; where Christ is not present, any foreign voice enters. And to you who lead the cities and the country, I speak with severity: You will give account before Christ — not because you allowed foreigners to come, for each person has his freedom — but because you left the people without protection, without catechesis, without light, without true shepherds. You opened the gates without discernment; you turned the capital into a marketplace of ideas, not a fortress of faith; and you forgot that the soul of a nation is more precious than all your projects. When the shepherds sleep, the wolves enter; when the leaders do not keep watch, the people go astray — and for this you will answer. And to you, young people, I speak with pain: You are the most hunted, for deception comes to you with a smile, with promises, with “new truths,” with “modern spirituality.” Do not let your minds be stolen. Not everything new is true, and not everything that shines is light. Hold fast to Christ, to the Mother of God, to the Church. Hold fast to the Holy Fathers, to the Holy Apostles, for there is power, there is peace, and there is the Truth.

Brothers, awaken. Judge no one, but guard your soul. Hate no one, but do not receive deception. Quarrel with no one, but do not abandon the Holy Orthodox Faith. Hold fast to the Cross, hold fast to the Mother of God, hold fast to the Holy Apostles, hold fast to the Holy Fathers, and hold fast to the Holy Orthodox Church, for there is life, there is peace, there is the Truth. Romanians, awaken — the time is short and the deception is great. If you guard the faith, God will guard the country; and if you abandon it, God allows the trial.

Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Light of the world and unchanging Truth, look upon us, the unworthy, who have grown weak in faith and have allowed deception to walk through our cities. Strengthen us with the power of Your Cross, that we may not be shaken by any foreign teaching.Most Holy Mother of God, Mother of Light and Protectress of our nation, cover us with your holy veil and drive away from us all delusion, all confusion, all deceit of the evil one. Strengthen our hearts in humility, vigilance, and love of Truth. Holy Apostles, who preached to the world the one and true Gospel, pray for us, that we may not turn to the right or to the left, but remain in the teaching you sealed with your blood. Holy Fathers, pillars of Orthodoxy, guardians of the dogmas and enlighteners of the world, strengthen our minds, inflame our hearts, awaken our conscience, that we may not receive any word that does not come from the Holy Spirit. Lord, protect the youth of this nation, for they are the most hunted by deception. Plant in them the desire for purity, for truth, for prayer, for the Church. Guard them from deceitful voices, from false light, from the feigned smile of those who do not know You. Lord, enlighten the leaders of the country, that they may understand that the soul of the people is more precious than all their plans. Give them fear of You, wisdom, and vigilance, that they may not leave the flock without shepherds and the city without protection. Lord, have mercy on the Romanian people, who were baptized in Your Name and lived for centuries under Your protection. Raise us from sleep, strengthen us in faith, inflame our hearts, that we may not be lost in the waves of the times, but remain anchored in Your holy Church. Lord Jesus Christ, do not let us fall into deception, do not let us depart from the Truth, do not let us lose our souls through carelessness and indifference. Keep us close to You, to Your Cross, to Your Mother, to Your Saints, for You are the Light of the world, the eternal Truth, and the Life without end, and to You we give glory, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Cuvânt către români, în vremea congresului rătăciților care a umplut Bucureștiul cu martorii lui Iehova 20-06-2026

Fraților, acest cuvânt care va urma nu este împotriva oamenilor, ci împotriva rătăcirii și a nepăsării noastre.

Fraților, ascultați căci vremea nu mai rabdă mângâiere, Bucureștiul s‑a umplut de rătăcire, de congresul martorilor lui Iehova și nu numai ei sunt primejdia cea mare, ci somnul vostru, al celor botezați în numele Tatălui și al Fiului și al Sfântului Duh. Nu vă mirați că rătăcirea umblă slobodă prin capitală, mirați-vă că voi, fiii Ortodoxiei, ați lăsat candela să se stingă, căci unde nu arde lumina lui Hristos, acolo intră orice umbră.

Hristos, Fiul lui Dumnezeu, nu Se schimbă, El este Adevărul, nu o opinie, El este Calea, nu o variantă, El este Viața, nu o interpretare și cine Îl caută în afara Bisericii, caută apă în pustiu. Să știți că nu toți cei ce rostesc numele Lui Îl și urmează, Hristosul cel adevărat este Cel propovăduit de Sfinții Apostoli, păzit de Sinoade, trăit de Sfinții Părinți și cine iese din această rânduială, iese din Adevăr.

Maica Domnului nu este un detaliu, ci mama neamului creștin și cine o leapădă pe Ea, leapădă și pe Fiul Ei, cine nu o cinstește, nu poate avea pace, Ea este scutul românilor, pavăza țării, ocrotitoarea celor smeriți. Fraților, țineți-vă de Maica Domnului, căci rătăcirea fuge de Ea ca fumul de vânt.

Sfinții Apostoli nu au vestit două Evanghelii, ci una singură, Sfinții Părinți nu au păzit două credințe, ci una singură și ei nu au schimbat Adevărul după vremuri, ci au rămas statornici până la moarte. Cine vine astăzi cu altă Sfântă Evanghelie, cu altă învățătură, cu alt Hristos, acela nu este trimis de Dumnezeu, nu primiți învățături străine, chiar dacă vin cu zâmbet, cu politețe, cu Sfânta Scriptura în mână, Sfânta Scriptura fără Biserică este sabie în mâna unui copil.

Românilor, voi ați uitat de Sfânta Liturghie? Ați uitat de spovedanie? Ați uitat de rugăciune? Ați uitat de post? Ați uitat de smerenie? Ați uitat că sunteți fii ai lui Hristos, nu turiști spirituali? Și acum vă mirați că rătăcirea vă bate la ușă? Unde nu e lumină, intră întunericul, unde nu e trezvie, intră înșelarea, unde nu e Hristos, intră orice glas străin.

Iar vouă, celor ce conduceți orașele și țara, vă spun cu asprime: Veți da socoteală înaintea lui Hristos, nu pentru că ați permis străinilor să vină căci fiecare are libertatea lui, ci pentru că ați lăsat poporul fără apărare, fără cateheză, fără lumină, fără păstori adevărați și ați deschis porțile fără discernământ, ați făcut din capitală un târg de idei, nu o cetate a credinței și ați uitat că sufletul unui neam e mai prețios decât toate proiectele voastre. Când păstorii dorm, lupii intră, când conducătorii nu veghează, poporul se rătăcește și pentru asta veți răspunde.

Iar vouă, tinerilor, vă spun cu durere: voi sunteți cei mai vânați fiindcă rătăcirea vine la voi cu zâmbet, cu promisiuni, cu ‘adevăruri noi’, cu ‘spiritualitate modernă’, nu vă lăsați mintea furată, nu tot ce e nou e și adevărat și nu tot ce e strălucitor e și lumină. Țineți-vă de Hristos, de Maica Domnului, de Biserică, țineți-vă de Sfinții Părinți, de Sfinții Apostoli fiindcă acolo este puterea, acolo este pacea și acolo este Adevărul.

Fraților, treziți-vă, nu judecați pe nimeni, dar păziți-vă sufletul, nu urâți pe nimeni, dar nu primiți rătăcirea și nu vă certați cu nimeni, dar nu părăsiți Sfânta Credință Ortodoxă. Țineți-vă de Cruce, țineți-vă de Maica Domnului, țineți-vă de Sfinții Apostoli, țineți-vă de Sfinții Părinți și țineți-vă de Sfânta Biserică Ortodoxă căci acolo este viața, acolo este pacea, acolo este Adevărul. Români, treziți-vă vremea este scurtă și înșelarea este mare, dacă voi păziți credința, Dumnezeu va păzi țara și dacă voi o lăsați, Dumnezeu îngăduie încercarea.

Rugăciune

Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, Fiul lui Dumnezeu, Lumina lumii și Adevărul cel neschimbat, caută spre noi, nevrednicii, care ne-am slăbit în credință și am lăsat rătăcirea să umble prin cetățile noastre. Întărește-ne cu puterea Crucii Tale, ca să nu ne clătinăm în fața niciunei învățături străine. Preasfântă Născătoare de Dumnezeu, Maica Luminii și Ocrotitoarea neamului nostru, acoperă-ne cu sfântul tău acoperământ și izgonește de la noi toată înșelarea, toată tulburarea, toată amăgirea celui viclean și întărește inimile noastre în smerenie, în trezvie și în dragoste de Adevăr. Sfinților Apostoli, care ați vestit lumii Evanghelia cea una și adevărată, rugați-vă pentru noi, ca să nu ne abatem nici la dreapta, nici la stânga, ci să rămânem în învățătura pe care voi ați pecetluit-o cu sângele vostru. Sfinților Părinți, stâlpi ai Ortodoxiei, păzitori ai dogmelor și luminători ai lumii, întăriți-ne mintea, aprindeți-ne inima, treziți-ne conștiința, ca să nu primim niciun cuvânt care nu vine din Duhul Sfânt. Doamne, păzește tinerii acestui neam, căci ei sunt cei mai vânați de rătăcire, pune în ei dor de curăție, de adevăr, de rugăciune, de Biserică și ferește-i de glasurile înșelătoare, de lumina mincinoasă, de zâmbetul prefăcut al celor ce nu Te cunosc. Doamne, luminează pe conducătorii țării, ca să înțeleagă că sufletul poporului este mai prețios decât toate planurile lor și dă-le frică de Tine, înțelepciune și trezvie, ca să nu lase turma fără păstori și cetatea fără pază. Doamne, miluiește poporul român, care a fost botezat în numele Tău și a trăit veacuri sub ocrotirea Ta. Ridică-ne din somn, întărește-ne în credință, aprinde-ne inimile, ca să nu ne pierdem în valurile vremurilor, ci să rămânem ancorați în Biserica Ta cea sfântă. Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, nu ne lăsa să cădem în rătăcire, nu ne lăsa să ne depărtăm de Adevăr, nu ne lăsa să ne pierdem sufletele prin neatenție și nepăsare. Ține-ne aproape de Tine, de Crucea Ta, de Maica Ta, de Sfinții Tăi, că Tu ești Lumina lumii, Adevărul cel veșnic și Viața cea fără de moarte, și Ție slavă Îți înălțăm, împreună cu Tatăl și cu Duhul Sfânt, acum și pururea și în vecii vecilor. Amin.