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Interview With Father Tadej
Interview With Father Tadej
ENTREVISTA
Everithing that exits on the earth and in the cosmos, is nothong but Divine thought made material
in time and space.
People do not pay attention when God reveals to them how great the power of our thoughts is.
They treat us the way we treat them:giving back love for our love as the saying goes: whatever a
man shows, that he Will also reap.
The Lord Will not abandon His people,because of Angels and Saints who pray in front of the
Throne of the most Holy Mother of God.
The Lord consoles us through the Holy fathers who say: How Will we know that God truly love us?
When He takes us through much sufferings and sorrows and travails throughoutthe life. By this we
Will know.
When whole world is againts us, it means that God truly loves us.
It has not been since the beginning of the world, and probably never shall be that whole Word rise
against one small country (Serbia).
It means that God truly love us, and Lord also protects us, otherwise they would devour us, and
wipe us off the face of the earth.
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Although we ortodox Christians became indifferent to coldthere are among us many humble and
meek souls praying to the Lord to keep us away from all evil, because of them New World Order
cannot accomplish its plan.
They devotdly serving to Satan, and open union with Him. However this plan cannot be fulfilled
because of Ortodox Christians. That is why the Ortodox are suffering, since these humble and
meek souls are praying to the Lord.
The fulfillment of this plan is hindered by Christians, in the spiritual spheres not in the physical
ones.
God in omnipresent. Of course, if one prays to Him with his heart, without cessation, every day,
Lord consoles him. Le tus multiply our prayers and let us pray to the Lord with our heart.
We should repent and turn toward goodness for their own good.
The we will realize how situation is completing changing around us. Gradually, all our enemies will
disappear.
We ourselves are our own greatest enemies because of our evil thoughts and desires wich destroy
us from inside and outside.
We negatively affect our environment and our neighbors. The troughts are penetrative not only
here on the Earth, they do penétrate even the Eternity.
We humnas are very peculiar beings. We have been given wonderful things by the Lord, yet we do
not seem to realize that this is so.
We have fallen, and because of the Fall oman al lof the creation suffers, for man was freated man
was made lasto f all the creatures to be master of the material World.
The material world was created as spiritual, not coarse and rough as it is today. After Adam
transgressed the Lord’s commandment everything became coarse. Nature also.
This is why the Apostle Paul says: The whole Creation groans and waits for the manifestation of
sons of God, and that’s us. Nature is waiting fo rus to be delivered in order that it, too, might be
delivered from corruption, for in its present state it is corrupt and changeable. And in us, in our
bodies, there exist all the substances and the minerals that can be found in the universe.
Once we were the masters of all the material things, but now everythings is rebelling against us,
for we are to be blamed for the fall of all things.
( pregunta la entrevistadora ) When something bad happens, people are asking the question:Why
does God allow bad things to happen?
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Nothing ever happens either in the world or in the universe without the will of God or His
permission. All that is good and noble is God’s providence, and all that is negative and bad
happens because He allows it. He knows why he allow these things to happen and for how long.
If the incorporeal angelic Powers and physical rational beings (we men) were allowed to do as we
please, here would be total chaos world and in the entire universe.
But God is present everywhere and He is the unfathomable Light, Energy that penetrates all. To
God, there is not past, present or futureit is always today, eternity. He upholds all things.
He knows why it is like that and why He has permitted it. Offentimes, we complicate our life with
our thoughts and desires.
We people oppose God’s will, while holy angels and saints are completely submisive to the will of
God. But we, descendants of fallen Adam and Eve, we oppose God.
The Lord has more problems with us to speak pious that with apostates. He would like to set us
free, us who love Him and always seek Him. He could do it easily but He respects our free will and
wants us to freely accept Him with all our heart.
He can deliver us from any kind of evil but we ourselves are holding tightly to it.
Why does the Lord command us to love our enemies? Not for their sake but for ours. For as long
as we bear grudges as long a we dwell on how someone ofended us we have no peace.
We must becomes free from such thoughts . How? We must forgive from the hearth like nothing
has happened. We are free then from inner tyranny wich destroys our peace and serenity.
As i already have said, repentance: that is complete turning of one’s heart toward Absolute
Goodness. To wish good for everyone, to cry our to God for help. Help will immediately come, and
enemies instantly disapear.
Tens of the thousands flee from the One. Because over there is disharmony and over here is
harmony.
(pregunta la entrevistadora) To sum up: think positively, love your own people and have positive
attitude with everyone?
Yes, gentle and kind man does not hate his enemies, but wishes them good. His goodness liberates
his enemies from disharmony. They do not have power to atack any more. Because thoughts are
power, they penetrate. When our thoughts are bad we multiply and contribute tremendous power
to the evil. We must never produce negative (evil) thoughts.
Yes, without. If we all were of one mind and united in kindness, we would realice how great power
of good thoughts is. There would be harmony everywhere and in every place: at home and in the
workplace. In 1980 while I was at the Tumane monastery, one women came to me complaining:
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“I can´t bear this any longer! I have to quit my job, everyone offends me” I advised her not to do
that as it was difficult to find a job. I told her she has better stop to fight a war with your
colleagues. “
"But I'm not fighting with anyone,” she said. “You are not fighting physically, you are waging a war
in your thoughts by being dissatisfied with your position and with your colleagues”, I replied.
“No one can do it,” she said. "Of course you can't do it yourself. You need God's help.
Pray to God in secret. Nobody should know that you are praying. Pray that He send to your
coworkers an Angel of peace. Ask Him also not to forget you. You will see how everything will
change over time"
In 1981 I was sent here to Vitovnica monastery. She came once again to visit me and she said:
“Oh Father, I had no idea that people were so good”. “Where, at your workplace?” I asked. “Yes”.
“Have you achieved a harmony?” “Yes I have. "They have changed so much, Father, it's
unbelievable! No one offends me any more. There was one person I could not make peace with
for a long time. “Have you made peace and harmony with her too?” I asked. “Yes I have”.
“How did you do that?” “I do read the Gospels. Our Lord commands us to love our enemies.
Then I said to myself: I am going to love this person whether I want it or not because that is what
our Lord wants us to do. And now, see, we are the best friends.”
If all people were like this woman, we would have a harmony at workplaces and in the country,
(entrevistadora) But only a few are like her. Father Tadej, the young people do not know which
path to take and how to choose the right path. What is your advice to the young people?
The youth lack information about what is life and how they are supposed to live and what to do in
order to be useful to themselves, to their community and to humankind.
They haven’t got anybody as “the living model” to teach them and guide, not even in their own
families. Therefore, they are looking for some kind of escape from this tough life trying to find out
something more. So they turn to the philosophy of the Far East, which has flooded the West with
its meditation and different techniques.
Our children accept that because of their lack of knowledge and their wish to learn something
more about the life. They should have learned that initially from their parents. Later on in life, the
Lord teaches people through His Holy Church. The Lord said: love is perfection.
He wants that we who are His children have His divine properties. The Lord gave us everything,
but instead of accepting we ignore all His gifts.
When we accept His grace, He guides us, gives us strength (grace is divine power). Then we can go
everywhere with Him.
(entrevistadora) Can you tell us from your spiritual experience what is the meaning of our life?
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The meaning of our life is to return to the bosom of our Lord and to obtain the grace of the Holy
Spirit: to be guided by The Holy Spirit and to be restored to our original state.
We should always be joyful, always be still and keep inner peace, devoid of any evil inside and
around us due to our good thoughts. Evil was not created. Evil is a misuse of goodness by spiritual
powers.
The Holy Fathers ask: what makes the Fallen Spirits evil? Their thoughts! They do not have physical
body to sin, but they sin with their thoughts. And so do we at first sin in our mind and later also
with our body: we “materialize” our evil thoughts.
May the Lord give us Serbs spiritual power and strength to transform ourselves and may the whole
world come to their senses. We know that time is running out and the evil spirits know this, too.
They do not want a single person to be free from their hellish thoughts. With that aim, they teach
even small children to oppose their parents so that, when the children grow up, they will be easy
prey for them. One day father, mother and their 10 year old daughter came to see me. Young girl
said: “I love my father and my mother, but I don't know why one particular thought is quite often
on my mind to disobey my parents and to contradict them. But I don't want to contradict them,
I want to obey them because I love them very much and they love me.”
From childhood, spirits of evil learn children to oppose. Later, one can see what they are doing
with our youth. These young people offend their parents and offend everybody. They have no
peace, no serenity. Everything can take a turn for a good if every one of us begins with himself,
if the transformation starts with us. We should be good for our own good.
We should have good, calm and quiet thoughts. Such thoughts should radiate from us wherever
we go. It is always very pleasant to be with a humble person, It's like he radiates warmth. That
person may not say a single word, yet we will feel peace merely by the fact we are close to him.
So, if we all begin with ourselves transformation will take a place. Goodness will be renewed and
established all around us in our country and further abroad.
We will be living example as it used to be. I have often listened to stories of the older people
about he we Serbs used to be before the first Balkan war in 1912. All the older people had prayer
ropes and prayed to God. After 1912 things began to deteriorate until the world war I, and after
the world war I this practice was completely lost.
Those who are old enough to remember life between world wars I and II know that the difference
between then and now is huge. Just unbelievable.
To me, it looks like people come out of Hades, like not born on earth. I am not surprised by our
youth, I am surprised by older people. God forbid.
We are always in unceasing battle. Our spiritual warfare never stops and the only way we can fight
it is with the prayer, with the Lord. He is our warrior.
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We are very peculiar beings, and we often wonder at all the inconceivable mysteries that surround
us.
We know a little bit about the world and about life, but this is really very little when compared to
the truth. In the first place, we are a mystery to our own selves. We don't know who are we and
what are we? we are thinking something...planning...
No one asked us to be born, and no one will ask us when we will depart this planet. Our life span is
very brief, but even during this brief time we have been given many opportunities to perfect
ourselves in good and to turn toward the Absolute Good.
Only when we do so will our horizons expand and some answers become clearer to us: such as
why the world exists and why it is the way it is.
We will realize that we have transgressed and that we are constantly transgressing love, peace and
joy.
Yet, when we become united with the Source of life, out thoughts will become clear.
We Christians have been called to spread Divine peace and to spread the atmosphere of heaven.
There are very few of those who realize that this is how we should be.
For the sake of the prayers of meek and humble souls and prayers of the Most Holy Mother of God
and of the Holy Angels, the Lord will save us and spare us from troubles.
Like it was back in the 6th century when only 3 holy people lived on the Earth:
Saint Barsanuphius the Great, who lived in monastery near the city of Gaza, saint Eljah from
Corinth and saint John from Rome.
Only because of the prayers of these three holy souls has the Lord prolonged the centuries.
Even nowadays due to the prayers of His Most Holy Mother the Lord is sparing us. He expects us
to come to our senses.
But this happens very rarely and very few people do that.
If we were united in one mind, we would have great power. No one can withstand it.
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Si los poderes angelicales incorpóreos y los seres racionales físicos (nosotros, los hombres)
pudiéramos hacer lo que quisiéramos, aquí habría un mundo de caos total y en todo el universo.
Pero Dios está presente en todas partes y Él es la Luz insondable, la Energía que penetra todo.
Para Dios no hay pasado, presente o futuro, siempre es hoy, la eternidad. El sostiene todas las
cosas.
Él sabe por qué es así y por qué lo ha permitido. A menudo, complicamos nuestra vida con
nuestros pensamientos y deseos.
Las personas nos oponemos a la voluntad de Dios, mientras que los santos ángeles y los santos son
completamente sumisos a la voluntad de Dios. Pero nosotros, descendientes de Adán y Eva caídos,
nos oponemos a Dios.
El Señor tiene más problemas con nosotros para hablar piadoso que con los apóstatas. Le gustaría
liberarnos, a nosotros que lo amamos y siempre lo buscamos. Podría hacerlo fácilmente, pero
respeta nuestro libre albedrío y quiere que lo aceptemos libremente con todo nuestro corazón.
Él puede liberarnos de cualquier tipo de maldad, pero nosotros mismos nos aferramos a él.
¿Por qué el Señor nos ordena amar a nuestros enemigos? No por su bien sino por el nuestro.
Mientras tengamos rencores mientras reflexionemos sobre cómo alguien nos ofendió, no tenemos
paz.
Debemos liberarnos de tales pensamientos. ¿Cómo? Debemos perdonar desde el hogar como si
nada hubiera pasado. Somos libres entonces de la tiranía interior que destruye nuestra paz y
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serenidad.
(pregunta la entrevistadora) ¿Qué debemos hacer en el nivel espiritual?
Como ya he dicho, arrepentimiento: eso es un giro completo del corazón hacia la Bondad
Absoluta. Desear el bien para todos, pedirle ayuda a Dios. La ayuda vendrá de inmediato, y los
enemigos desaparecerán instantáneamente.
Decenas de miles huyen del Único. Porque allá hay desarmonía y aquí hay armonía.
(pregunta la entrevistadora) En resumen: ¿pensar positivamente, amar a tu propia gente y tener
una actitud positiva con todos?
Sí, el hombre gentil y amable no odia a sus enemigos, pero les desea lo mejor. Su bondad libera a
sus enemigos de la falta de armonía. Ya no tienen poder para atacar. Como los pensamientos son
poder, penetran. Cuando nuestros pensamientos son malos, nos multiplicamos y aportamos un
tremendo poder al mal. Nunca debemos producir pensamientos negativos (malvados).
(pregunta la entrevistadora) Debemos defendernos, pero sin malos pensamientos.
Si sin Si todos fuéramos de una sola mente y unidos en la bondad, nos daríamos cuenta de cuán
grande es el poder de los buenos pensamientos. Habría armonía en todas partes y en todos los
lugares: en casa y en el lugar de trabajo. En 1980, mientras estaba en el monasterio de Tumane,
una mujer vino a mí quejándose:
“¡No puedo soportar esto más! Tengo que dejar mi trabajo, todos me ofenden ”. Le aconsejé que
no lo hiciera, ya que era difícil encontrar un trabajo. Le dije que es mejor que pare para pelear una
guerra con sus colegas. "
"Pero no estoy peleando con nadie", dijo. "No estás peleando físicamente, estás librando una
guerra en tus pensamientos al estar insatisfecho con tu posición y con tus colegas", respondí.
"Nadie puede hacerlo", dijo. "Por supuesto que no puedes hacerlo tú mismo. Necesitas la ayuda
de Dios.
Reza a Dios en secreto. Nadie debería saber que estás orando. Ora para que envíe a tus
compañeros de trabajo un ángel de paz. Pídele también que no te olvide. Verás cómo todo
cambiará con el tiempo "
En 1981 me enviaron aquí al monasterio de Vitovnica. Ella vino una vez más a visitarme y dijo:
"Oh padre, no tenía idea de que la gente fuera tan buena". "¿Dónde, en tu lugar de trabajo?" Yo
pregunté. "Si".
"¿Has logrado una armonía?" "Sí tengo. "Han cambiado tanto, padre, ¡es increíble! Ya nadie me
ofende. Hubo una persona con la que no pude hacer las paces durante mucho tiempo." ¿Has
hecho las paces y la armonía con ella también? " Le pregunté: "Sí, tengo".
"¿Cómo hiciste eso?" “Yo sí leo los Evangelios. Nuestro Señor nos ordena amar a nuestros
enemigos.
Entonces me dije a mí mismo: voy a amar a esta persona, lo quiera o no porque eso es lo que
nuestro Señor quiere que hagamos. Y ahora, mira, somos los mejores amigos ".
Si todas las personas fueran como esta mujer, tendríamos una armonía en los lugares de trabajo y
en el país,
Todo estaría bien.
(entrevistadora) Pero solo unos pocos son como ella. Padre Tadej, los jóvenes no saben qué
camino tomar y cómo elegir el camino correcto. ¿Cuál es tu consejo para los jóvenes?
Los jóvenes carecen de información sobre qué es la vida y cómo se supone que deben vivir.
y qué hacer para ser útiles para ellos mismos, para su comunidad y para la humanidad.
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No tienen a nadie como "el modelo vivo" para enseñarles y guiarlos, ni siquiera en sus propias
familias.
Por lo tanto, están buscando algún tipo de escape de esta vida difícil tratando de descubrir algo
más.
Entonces recurren a la filosofía del Lejano Oriente, que ha inundado a Occidente con su
meditación y diferentes técnicas.
Nuestros niños aceptan eso debido a su falta de conocimiento y su deseo de aprender algo más
sobre la vida. Deberían haber aprendido eso inicialmente de sus padres.
Más adelante en la vida, el Señor enseña a las personas a través de Su Santa Iglesia. El Señor dijo:
el amor es perfección.
Él quiere que nosotros, que somos sus hijos, tengamos sus propiedades divinas.
El Señor nos dio todo, pero en lugar de aceptar, ignoramos todos sus dones.
Cuando aceptamos su gracia, nos guía, nos da fuerza (la gracia es poder divino).
Entonces podemos ir a todas partes con Él.
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