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A monk, a sack of flour, and the Panagia Portaitissa
What the video says
The speaker tells a story from the Holy Monastery of the Portaitissa icon. A monk went to ask for a little bread and was told there was none. The Panagia gave him a flour (the 'flouri') so he would have bread to eat.
When Portaris saw it and asked where it came from, the monk said a woman gave it to him, the Panagia, and his whole behavior changed. The speaker says we should see others with love, as an image of God and a veneration, just as Portaris saw the miracle.
Key moments
- We should see the other with love, as an image of God, a veneration.
- A monk went to ask for a little bread and was told there was none.
- The Panagia gave him the flour and told him to go eat, to have a little bread.
- Portaris asked what it was and where he found it; the monk answered it was from the Panagia, a woman gave it to him.
- His whole behavior changed after seeing the miracle.
Elder Philemon, Dikaios of the Holy Coenobitic Skete of the Prophet Elias of Pantokrator on Mount Athos, tells a small and instructive miracle of the Panagia Portaitissa. A monk of the monastery went to ask for a little bread and was told there was none. The Panagia then gave him a sack of flour (the 'flouri') so that he would have bread to eat.
When Portaris saw the flour and asked what it was and where it came from, the monk answered that a woman had given it to him, the Panagia. After seeing the miracle, his whole behavior changed. Elder Philemon draws the lesson that we should see the other person with love, as an image of God and as a veneration, just as Portaris saw the miracle.
The story is presented in a video on the website pemptousia.gr, titled 'The Ministry in Monastic Life', and the post links to the full recording. The post carries hashtags on Mount Athos, the Panagia, miracle, faith, Christianity and Orthodoxy, in Greek and English.
Main points
- A monk asked for a little bread and was told there was none.
- The Panagia gave him the flour and told him to go eat, so he would have a little bread.
- Portaris asked what it was and where he found it; the monk answered that a woman, the Panagia, gave it to him.
- His whole behavior changed after seeing the miracle.
- Elder Philemon says we should see the other with love, as an image of God and a veneration.