Metropolitan Neophytos Morfou

 

Metropolitan Neophytos Morfou

"A nice nun called me. It's Thursday today (October 5, 2023), and she must have called me on Monday. In Greece, this nun is in a good monastery. It rained very much there too and this nun was responsible for her elder to take care of the goats and feed the animals of the monastery. We had, she says, a few chickens and about twenty goats. And the Mother Superior said to her, "Sister we should sell some goats, that's a lot, a convent now needs twenty goats? Since you don't have time to feed them" and we

think she said to give them to different people who help the convent from time to time and keep only 2-3 for milk. And

it was the end of a vigil we were holding. I went to sleep for 2-3 hours but I found the animals, the time 5:30 a.m. before we entered the service, going to feed them. Well, I set the clock to 5:30 a.m. I was on my way. I went to the barn and got hay and feed to take to the chickens and especially the goats. Well, we didn't realize because of the vigil that there was so much rain. There was a water runoff the lane we were going down to the corral was full of mud and to slip was dangerous and to step in and not get out of the mud. Whoa, he says,

how am I going to go to the goats now? The old woman and I agreed not to keep anything good, but to slaughter them and give them away.

And immediately,

he says I feel at a distance of 2-3 meters the presence of a woman. who was standing three feet above the ground? I turn around and see her. Who are you, she says? While she was dressed like a nun, she had a bright robe over her, all

white, shining!"

- "I am the Holy Elder Galact

ia. Don't you understand me?

".

- "Elder, but how did

you get dressed like that?" he says, "You've been in black all your life".

- "So we are

e up here in the Glory of God. Listen, my daughter, go feed

the goats."

- "But how am I to go, Elder? Can't you see the rain what mud has fallen?".

- "Where'

s the mud?".

- "Behold, see thou not that

thou art a saint, and standest in the air. I cannot stand in the air, I

have a body."

- "My child, in the name of the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," she crossed the room and with her hand, in one movement she pushed away the mud.

- "And the mud

went right and left as if it were Moses who opened the Red Sea."

- "Come in, daughter. Haven't you learned to call on us yet? Why are we and the Holy Angels in heaven together? You call upon us constantly, even in your youngest to

help you."

Metropolitan

n

of Morphou: "I was moved, he says."

-

"Thank you, Elder. Shall I tell you what happened to

me?".

- "Not only in your monastery, you'll find a few that the

whole dunya listens to and you can tell them to

say it."

Metropolitan

of Morphou: "And now I obey! Well, the

little sister got excited with Grandma and said to her:"

- "And we who are thinking of slaughtering some goats and

donating others?"

- "Not only will you not

slaughter the twenty goats, but those who have twenty will make forty. Those who have two will make four. Those who have four you will double

them to make eight."

- "But what are you saying, Elder? I can't make twenty and I'll make forty

?

".

- "And now how are you going to

catch up? Who chased away the dirt and mud? You? You will

call me."

- "Well, Elder, will you

come down from Heaven? And will you clean

for me every day?".

- "Yes, my child, it i

s enough to call me and others with an open heart. Not only me. Because from now on, my daughter, people have hitherto given money, edibles, fruit, cheese, whatever everyone produced, to the monasteries out of piety: 'to go to the monastery to St. Nicholas with whatever I produce'. From now on no one will bring you. Nobody. For some time you will eat only what you have. What you produce. There will be no electricity, no fuel."

- "But what are you

saying, Elder?".

- "That's why you

have to raise the goats and tell those who are talking to say it and let

everyone take responsibility."

Metropoli

tan of Morphou: "he says to her "Wel

l, Elder..." I liked that nun very much, she had spiritual courage!".

- "...You say that well from Heaven, but do you know

how difficult it is to raise forty goats?".

- "I know, but do you know how easy it is to raise them with our help?

"

- "Yes, Elder, you will help us with the chores and the mud. When I go to the barn to get hay a

nd haylage...".

Metropolitan of Morphou: "So he said to me, I was surprised

sed, he told me in plural".

- "...the hay will only be for the

e ten, the other thirty will go hungry. But no one will bring us anything. There'll be no cars, no electricity, no running water. How will we feed them? How much hay are we going to feed these animals with?

"

Metropolitan of Morphou: "And what

t

did the Elder say to her?".

- "Listen, daughter, you w

I'll have four bales of hay in the barn. You will go one day and catch one, and you will feed your animals. On the second day, you will take another ball, feed the rest, and just when you start thinking 'We're going to run out of hay and the aahs are going to die' you and 

our angels will make the