St. Theophan the Recluse: From Mindlessness to Faithlessness

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Wednesday, May 15 (2), 2024
Acts 4:13-22; Jn. 5:17-24

Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” [Jn. 4:19-20].  This is what St. Peter and John the Apostles, who had healed a man lame from his childhood in the name of Christ, answered to the Jewish leaders forbidding them to speak about the Risen Lord Jesus.

They feared no threats; they could not stay silent for the clarity of the truth which they had beheld.  We have seen and heard, ─ they said, ─ and our hands have handled, as St. John added later  [1Jn. 1:1].  They were eye-witnesses ─ that is, by common standards of human knowledge, the soundest witnesses of the truth.  In this respect, few other fields of human knowledge have such reliable witnesses.  Even though two thousand years have passed since that moment, the power of their testimony has not been reduced, and therefore the clarity of the truth which they proclaimed has not been reduced either.

When people fall into faithlessness ─ and nowadays they are numerous ─ they do so for no other reason than mindlessness.  Unwilling to think, they get carried away by nonsense which their own dishonest hearts adorn with vestiges of plausibility.  Poor souls!  They perish, fancying to have found some kind of a right track, particularly happy to be the first and to become the leaders for everyone else.  But woe unto him who sitteth in the seat of the ungodly [Ps. 1:1].

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