Christ's Holy Light that Recreates, Gives Light and Sanctifies

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!

The Holy Light from the Sepulcher of Christ, Jerusalem (source)

  
The greatest miracle* in the world is the Holy Light in Jerusalem, which springs forth every year from the All-holy Tomb [of Christ] on Great Saturday (between noon and 2pm).

It descends from heaven and everyone sees it, Orthodox and non-Orthodox. It is the Uncreated Light, which for a few minutes (4-10) does not burn! No one on earth can make fire that does not burn.

The Holy Light does not burn, it does not corrupt because it is in essence a spiritual Light, which recreates, gives light and sanctifies! Many take the Holy Light with candles and lamps, and whatever sick part of their body is crossed is healed!

After a few minutes, the Holy Light transforms from something Uncreated to something created and it begins to burn. And if this did not occur, the candles and lamps would never burn out and evil people would play "games" with the Holy Light and we would have blasphemies and perversions.

At some point, however, the Holy Light will cease to come. It will be the time of the antichrist. The Holy Light is the resounding confirmation that Orthodoxy is the only Truth, the only true religion...
-Elder Ephraim of St. Andrew Skete.
  
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*Elder Ephraim of course is not minimizing the astounding miracles that occur on a daily basis, such as the transformation into the Body and Blood of Christ in every Divine Liturgy. He is referring to extraordinary, overt and external miracles.
  

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs, He has granted life!
Truly, the Lord is risen!

Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos: “Signs of the Times”

Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos: “Signs of the Times”
Note: This is a wonderful talk by a great spiritual guide of our days, and spiritual son of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos (Cyprus). In this talk in Greek (with English subtitles provided by the wonderful Pemptousia website), the Metropolitan discusses the end times and the Last Judgment of Christ, but does it in such a loving and gentle and moving way, to convince us to prepare ourselves to face Christ, and not have unnecessary anxieties and agitations about the evils that are to come. May we continue to turn to our Merciful Lord in repentance and day by day purify our hearts so that we might behold our Beloved when our day comes!


 
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Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us! Amen!

Elder Ephraim of Arizona: "God kindles the energy of noetic prayer..."

The Holy Prophet Elias in the Fiery Chariot (source)

 
"In those last days, when the breath of the Antichrist corrupts earth and sea and every breath of life, as a refreshing breath of grace, like the fiery Prophet Elijah, God kindles the energy of noetic prayer in the chest and the heart of the Church, as an antidote of spiritual and bodily health and salvation for the days which will come."
-Elder Ephraim of Arizona
 
(amateur translation of text from source)
 

Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us! Amen!