Fr. Elpidios Vagianakis: The Queen of our heart

13. On the feast day of our Holy Virgin Mary

13. On the feast day of our Holy Virgin Mary

Maria together with her fiancé John went up the mountain, to the chapel of the Archangels, to attend the divine Liturgy and to receive the Body and Blood of their well-beloved King Jesus, on that great day of the feast of our Holy Virgin Mary.

Both of them love God very much and want to have a blessed family, which will worship the Creator and will live according to His Will.

After the divine Liturgy they did not leave immediately, but sat under a big shady tree beside the stone spring of cool water to enjoy the beauty of the mountain and thank God for the many gifts He gave them.

Their joy grew when they saw the elder priest approach them and sit near them like a sweet father close to his children.

MATERNAL MEMORIES of Theotokos Mariam

MATERNAL MEMORIES of Theotokos Mariam

Introduction

“I base all my hopes upon you, Mother of God, I beg You, keep me under your protection”. What is the deeper meaning of these words?

My All-Holly Virgin Mariam (Panagia), it’s you to whom I trust all my hopes.

She replies to us in a secret way:

“I don’t protect you, my children, just because I am the Mother of God, but because I am your Mother, too. I adore you and I love you, in the same way I love my own Son. I feel pain for you and I protect you just like I have always done with my Son. I love you in the same way I love Him because you are His own children. You are His own scenty flowers. If you have an accident or if anything sad happens to you, my Son, Himself, becomes really distressed and so do I, seeing Him so sad. Every single pain of yours, every single distress of yours immediately becomes pain and distress for my Son, too. Every single pain and distress of my Son, then, is my own distress, as well, because we all are a family. A Holy family; our Father in Heaven, His Only Son, me and you all. For this reason, every time you get in my Son’s hug, you get in the hug of Heaven. Whenever you get away from my Son’s embrace, you get away from the embrace of Heaven. This is the moment when I am scared. This is the instance when I feel pain for you. This is the moment when I am very distressed because I don’t know how spiritually prepared or not the Evil will find you. I don’t know your exact spiritual situation when the dark forces of Evil will come to meet you, in an attempt to both confuse your mind with dark thoughts and distress your soul and your body, as well.