Elder Tadej Štrbulović

A word for today, a reading from Elder Thaddeus of Vytovnika.

There are many kinds of tears.

Some people cry out of rage, some to spite another person, others because they have been offended.

When you are being cursed at, rebuked, whatever it might be, by a wild-tempered person in Lebanon, let's say, the words they say are actually against themselves.

curse words and against your mother and against this and that this impacts everybody i mean if you just take that and you connect it with elder thaddeus's book our thoughts determine our lives how we can sell peace in the world by our thoughts or we can sell evil in the world by our thoughts and of course more than our thoughts are in our own words which come from the thoughts these things are so related and so connected and it's so serious We're kind of jumping around a little bit, but I can't think about explaining much about demonic possession without mentioning that how the Lord, nothing happens without the Lord allowing it.

Of course, in union with our free will, the choices we decide to make on how to live our life and the sort of things we decide to participate in, which I hope we can get into, all sorts of things people are participating in today, as they always have been, and probably even more fervently today, and probably with less of an excuse.

The hardest part was figuring out where to go.