PS Varlaam Ploieșteanul: St. Elijah, model of fidelity to the faith revealed to the saintstranslated

St. Pror. Elijah "is for each of us a model of fidelity to the faith revealed to the saints once and for all," said Monday the Most Reverend Father Varlaam Ploieșteanul, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop.

The hierarch recalled that "his father, when the baby was born, saw how some men in white clothes fed the baby with flames. It was an image, a foreshadowing of his work full of zeal and heroism, and the men in white clothes were the angels who poured out extraordinary gifts from God on the baby."

The Holy Prophet Elijah "burned for the defense, confession and strengthening of faith in a people who, although they had received divine revelation or revelation, had turned away from it, worshiping foreign gods", His Eminence recalled.

"We must also have this faith. And through everything we do and speak, let us confess, like St. Elijah, the right faith. Let us go to meet God only at his holy altars and not at various chapels and so-called houses of prayer."

The patriarchal vicar bishop urged the faithful to show the same zeal as the saint in correcting those who have fallen from...