Saint Porphyrios on Paradise on earth through love and grace

The post shares a quotation from Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia, a twentieth-century Greek elder canonized in 2013. The saint identifies four realities, love, the worship of God, longing for God, and union with God, and calls them Paradise on earth. He then states that when a person acquires the grace of God, everything becomes light and joyful, and everything is the blessing of God. The text presents these statements without additional commentary or discussion.