Today is Lot’s time when he was proclaiming the Word and no one heard him. Today is the time of Sodom and Gomorrah when the man of God was preaching His word and the people would not listen and set the table for sodomy and fornication. Today is the time of Noah as well, as he was working and the people laughed at him and played. Today is the time for the flood.
… My children, when you set off with My trumpet, be fear within and attentive. Do you know how to take care of her in order not to be judged when I come? Children, My sheep, I did not take the trumpet among the rich ones or among the kings in order not to ascend, and I took the trumpet from below, among the babies, among the children, as I took David and Daniel among the sheep. And I did this for you to be able to enter, to take to God the honesty of the poor, to embarrass the rich and the poor ones, and the kings too. I have worked through priests, I have worked through monks, I have worked through monasteries, I have worked through civilians, and I have worked through patriarchs. There are only the kings I have not worked through, nowadays like kings. I have worked through kings like Constantin the Emperor.
… See that the autumn is coming with brandy. What do you do with figs? Do you turn them into brandy? Fruits that are not good to eat give them to the animals. Make jam and marma-lade out of fruits for fasting days, do not make brandy. If you drink brandy, do not come to Me.
… I told you to keep away from dogs; incline your ears, as many assemblies were made against you, but you are protected. They say so to catch you. They say that they want to catch those that do not want to go to church, but they are not looking for them, but they are looking for you, who go to church. They do not prevent you from going to church, for the ruler with his wife also go to church; however, keep away from butchers, so that you may not fall into their claws. There were many martyrs who suffered and neither did they give themselves over as pray, nor did they give their shepherd over. Many assemblies were made against you, for they say that you are part of the Army of God , not because you do not go to church, where even Ceauşescu goes; however, he goes both to the pub and to dance. You would be forced to eat meat on a day of fasting. You will be asked why you do not you eat for sweet food, and this is what you are to answer: „This is what my mother and father taught me, and this is what I teach my children, and this is written in the book and in the calendar”. And if you go to church, your neighbor from there hates you because you do not do as he does.
…Sons, I let you go to your jobs but now I am sorry that I let you go, as you made your own jobs. What do you do with your money that you receive from your work? You do not do any merciful deeds and the time is coming when you will be sorry that you did not do merciful deeds; it is coming and the alms giving will be taken into consideration and you, who did not do any alms, what will you do, then? As he, who helps a poor man, helps God. Take this into con-sideration, as look, in Pucioasa a rich man died, and after he was buried, the news spread that he had three hundred thousand lei on H.E.C. (The House of Economy and Consignments, translator’s note.), and it was taken by the state, (When a monthly salary was one thousand seven hundred lei, r.n.) for no one could raise the money, and now he is at the customs of stinginess and can no longer pass.
08-09-1974
