I would like simply to express a single prayer for all of us. Let us have confidence in God, the memory of Him and a diligent love for Him. What are we, after all? And what is He? All of humanity, the whole universe, and all of us here with all the greatness of our hearts and labors and love, would not be able to meet the breadth of God's little toe, nor the billionth part of His holiness.
So let us admit to ourselves that we are useless and fit as witnesses only to be crushed beneath the tread of that toe of God's love, be trodden in the winepress of the ascetic and Christ-delighting monastic life, be poured out as new wine to gladden the Lord and be changed into the sacrament of the world to come.
+Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, from Martyrdom: Foundation of Orthodox Monasticism, in The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain.
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