October 12: Saint Simeon the New Theologian is celebratedtranslated

Today, October 12, the Church honors the memory of Saint Symeon the New Theologian, the martyrs Provos, Tarachus and Andronikos and the Saints Theosebius of Arsinoitos and Epictetus.

Lambros Skontzos, Theologian, writes

Saint Simeon the New Theologian: The Great Mystic of our Church Our orthodox theology is not a theoretical scheme and it does not exist to satisfy our intellect, but it is an experience, a way of life, a sharing of the Divinity and, by grace, a theosis.

This is also its notable difference with Western and heretical theology in general, which satisfies mental patterns, gives the illusion of the alleged completeness of the truth and therefore leads from malice to malice and from heresy to heresy. On the contrary, the approach of the theology of our Church as an ecclesiastical experience, as a natural way of being, does not simply teach the truth, but transforms it into a transformation of the faithful, to the point where they have a vision of God, a living sense of God's uncreated actions in their daily lives. This fact was experienced by the saints of our Church.

One of those who claimed to see the uncreated light of God with his physical eyes is Saint Simeon the Younger...