Vision of Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios

Vision of Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios
Eternal Memory - November 24, 1996

“The subtle art of image making for the future needs skilled craftsmen as well as the gift of the Spirit. The various crises of our time should be used neither as occasions for doom-saying pessimism nor as a chance to peddle empty-hope optimism. Every crises is a judgment, a call to see where things have gone wrong and to seek to set matters right, both within our consciousness and in society.”
(from Human Presence 1987 p3)

“True unity, abiding unity, is not possible except in the good.”
(from Cosmic Man 1980 p11)

“The vision that beckons defies human word and concept. The mind cannot envision what God has set in store for creation. The destiny is good without mitigation, pure joy in love, peace in community with all, ecstasy without triumph, sweeter than anything our mind and senses can now enjoy. The human mind can neither conceive of nor imagine what God has set in store for us and for all creation. Our fantasy and our imagination cannot soar so high. Even when we finally experience it, it will be beyond all language and concept.

“It is the Spirit that assures me of this. And the Spirit leads me there. That Spirit, we have a foretaste. The reality will surpass all present hope and human expectation.

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, one true God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

(from the closing page of his unfinished autobiography - Love’s Freedom 1997 p193)

May this vision be a guiding inspiration for us to continue to work for goodness and service for all humanity. Most precious Thirumeni pray for us!