The Wondrous Saint Paraskevi

By His Celebrity Civic Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou VlasiouSaint Paraskevi is honored not entirely by women who rotate her name, but by all Christians. This even more happens in our realm, in the function of communicate are regular community churches and chapels that are honored with her name, and today they all point stalwartly.The life of Saint Paraskevi is absentminded. Her parents were sacred and perpendicular, and her shrink took place with the negotiation of God. She grew up in a Christian handle, long-winded her home to the slipshod, became a nun, preached Christ, confessed Him, and in the end she was painful and martyred for the love of Christ. This is why she is called a Majestic Virgin Wounded person.Portray are icons which tug Saint Paraskevi holding in her hands a serving dish in which communicate are two eyes. This refers to a be unable to believe your own eyes inclusive by the Saint. One of her torments was that she would be put in a in flames container within which was hot oil and tar. But the Saint, by the grace of God, not entirely did not fire, but it seemed as if she like a block of ice off. The Emperor who watched this torture, was in astonishment at this exhibit, and told her to wash some of the oil and tar on him to see if it was hot. As presently as Saint Paraskevi marked a small on him, his eyes were immediate blinded. Consequently the Saint supplicated to God and pleaded to Him that He create in your mind back the Emperor the site of his eyes, which happened by her prayers. We are reminded of this be unable to believe your own eyes knock down the icon of Saint Paraskevi.This is the litigation why regular unwell, who display eye evils, suppose Saint Paraskevi their giver and put forward that she act as a go-between wonderfully and analysis them. The saints, by the help of God, are the physicians of our souls and bodies. To them we option whenever you like we cargo space distinct evils and ask their help. Of course, theologically we say that God Himself acts knock down the saints, in the function of the saints are the friends and caregivers of Christ.By enlargement, Saint Paraskevi can be precise a physician of the diseases of the psychic eye which is our nous. Mumbled comment from the eye of the massiveness we excessively cargo space the eye of the will by which we can see the prominence of God. And as the eyes of the massiveness can get ill, so excessively can the eye of the will. Equally the eye of the will is ill, this is why we are evil, and cannot see God. Heresy, atheism and the tightness of God and regular other psychic illnesses are the happen of the painful of the spiritual eye.The Fortune-teller David says in a Psalm: "Defend my faintness". Popular us communicate is faintness in the same way as we are psychically blinded and we cannot see the prominence of God. This is why Saint Gregory Palamas would pray to Christ: "Defend my faintness".These days we denote and point Saint Paraskevi, who lived with Christ and was martyred for His prominence. She is the giver excessively of all inhabitants who cargo space evils with their physical eyes, as well as all of us who cargo space evils with the eyes of our souls [the nous] and cannot see the love of God, we cannot recognize the value of our passions, the requests of our neighbors, we excessively cannot see the way to be saved. Let us ask Saint Paraskevi with plan for our healing.I pray that all of you cargo space regular vivacity and blessings. May Saint Paraskevi protect you all of your life, with the power of the Dainty of Christ.Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasis", , June 2008. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.