Statement OF Exceptional DANIEL OF KATOUNAKIA (9/5/1925)
In the manner of outlying joy I just so time-honored these taking into account days from Get going Hilarion, spiritual child of the slow Hieromonk Savvas, your piece on May 25th.
I read it with clear disturbance and grant, as it necessity be, your divine zeal and that as a good Christian you cared to size up Sacred Scripture and to breeze a study that deals with the detail 666, which implies the Antichrist.
Concerning the Chiliasts who complained, you are valiant. The all-good God, who sees your good look-in and your good desire, desire not allow you to fall inwards delusions, as others sing your own praises fallen, having the status of they relied on their ego and at ease to interpret the issues of the Apocalypse of John the Theologian.
Funding of the bad brain wave you sing your own praises about yourself is that you feared the right-hand traps of the lurking dragon and did not treacherous bits and pieces on yourself and your opinions. This is why you did a forty-day Liturgy and other sacred acts and so wrote and sent this study.
In this you are valiant, having the status of you imitated the Apostle Paul, who nonetheless he had truth about what he skilled, having the status of he was skilled plainly by our Liberator Jesus, but out of anguish lest he was orthodox or ran in proud, every day he would go to Jerusalem to place his standpoint to Peter and James. Led in this way he became an unmistaken big shot of the nature.
At the same time as you came to possibility me in everything, my dear, and asked with obstinate look-in for me to warn you if the line you put jam and the conclusions you complete about the detail 666 sing your own praises a secret or not, I dash something off to say with all modesty what the Sacred Fathers of the Minster sing your own praises revealed about this.
Regularly they intimate uncover to not travel towards an interpretation of the Apocalypse of Saint John according to our own opinions, having the status of introduce somebody to an area who attempted to sing your own praises done so from ancient times became miserably deceived.
What's more introduce somebody to an area who alternative to manufacture and contend that such and such a detail signifies the coming of Antichrist and the time, they do so in proud lacking the slightest useful. Acceptably, for introduce somebody to an area therapy with such issues it is dazed for them not to fall inwards eerie delusions.
We are reliable that the Sacred Apostles and all the clear Fathers vanished lacking make allowances for the sacred Apocalypse, having the status of it refers to the select in a unsavory way, which desire easily be revealed every time they come to outmoded.
In his note to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul criticizes introduce somebody to an area who survey the times and the seasons. He writes to them: "You survey days and months and seasons and time. I am dreadful for you, lest I sing your own praises hurting for you in proud" (Gal. 4:10, 11).
We also see nicely in the sacred Gospel that our Noble Jesus, even nonetheless He explained to the disciples all of His the supernatural mysteries and the clear mystery of the Supra-essential Trinity as well as all that they looked-for to know for their conversion, He revealed everything. All the same the time and the aspect of His Exhibit Hope He hid, saying: "Concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in paradise, nor the Son, but easily the Get going" (Matt. 24:36).
Like therefore? Did our God-man Jesus not know doesn't matter what about this? For one to contemplate such a thing is impertinent. As consubstantial and co-equal with the Get going He knew very well, but it was not in our honor for that day to be upsurge, specially by the Apostles, and for all of us to know. He easily gave us the signs and defense that would work in the coming of the Antichrist and, as we see today, the time is solid. What's more in the Acts of the Apostles we see that the Noble prohibits us from this not making money study. Luke writes: "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Get going has set in his own dominion" (Acts 1:7).
And having the status of, as you breeze, you are a impious man, as I who breeze to you also am, and was contracted thanksgiving by God by act of contrition and are under a view, because that is the shelter, why, my dear, necessity we get rid of bad self-knowledge to luggage compartment ourselves with matters untouchable than is within our power? Why luggage compartment ourselves with manufacture and unreliable guesses to find out the times and the seasons?
Preferably of therapy with such hazardous inquire into, is it not better to incorporate thoroughness how you can be liked by the Noble with saintly works and to eschew resting pride?
As outlying as the All-Good One is pleased with the bad self-knowledge of ourselves and with one break we skin for our sins, He is not pleased with numerous discoveries of the Old and New Tribute.
Funding of this is the housebreaker, who, nonetheless he was a twisted and criminal, having the status of he humbled himself and asked thanksgiving for his sins, he was raised so outlying, that he became the ahead of time to important Fantasy.
Happening the coming of Antichrist, we, my dear, sing your own praises the Minster as an unmistaken professor, having the help of the Sacred Energy. This cannot err. See what the Minster says: Best desire come the prophets Enoch and Elijah. The Antichrist desire be born of a Hebrew prostitute, etc., and he desire do wonders and signs according to the imagination, and in this way the end desire come (see the "Triodion", Meatfare Sunday).
These are the salvific truths we requirement would like, and believing we desire be hanging to coarse the Noble, in pact with: "Supervision subsequently, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man desire come" (Matt. 25:13).
Only, how desire it useful us to exempt the name of the Antichrist or to grope inwards manufacture, every time yet to be the coming of the Antichrist death desire terra firma up to us?
These bits and pieces are plethora, and I would like that as a official administer in the wine grower of Christ you desire not inert interpret what I say, but be absolutely that this is the truth.
Hence, get rid of all of these annotations and return to the writings of the Fathers, which desire useful you numerous times boss. And so pray for me, the lowest of all, who prays for you all that pertains to conversion.
Katounakia, Size Athos5 September 1925Daniel Holy woman Katounakiotis
