Top of the heart

Up the heart!
Priest Alexandru Lungu
Father Alexander writes beautifully. He writes not just with the pen - pardon me, with the keys - but with his inner self. His words do not spring only from the mind, but pass through the heart. There, in the heart watched over by the Spirit of God, there is no room for censorship, self-censorship, pretense, compromise, selfishness, vanity. And the father strives to please Him, God, first of all in what he does and thinks, and then to think about what people will say, will appreciate, will comment, will evaluate.
Father's writing is not only beautiful, captivating, without reductionism, without clichéd expressions, without words sought with a magnifying glass to impress. He speaks, and posts, for all those who might, out of conviction, but also out of politeness, courtesy or curiosity, listen to him. He appeals to those who are accustomed to the style of the old Cassanies, but also to those for whom colloquial language is more handy and more welcome than a strictly theological attitude. This is why you will find here marvelous pages, „paraphrases” for modern man (without in any way „betraying” the meaning and content) of the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus, or the parable of the return of the prodigal son, the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee, or the parable of the unthankful rich man and the poor Lazarus.
† Damaschin the Dornean,
Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți