Elder Paisios: Children Must Honor Parents

Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain teaches that children must be very careful to honor their parents. He states that when children are rude to their parents and do not show them respect, two consequences follow: first, grace leaves the children, and second, they become receptive to demonic influences and energies. The elder presents this as a direct spiritual cause and effect, linking the commandment to honor parents to the presence or absence of divine grace and vulnerability to spiritual harm.