{"id":98750,"date":"2026-08-13T21:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chilieathonita.ro\/?p=98750"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:58:41","slug":"where-is-home-fr-pimen-vlad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chilieathonita.ro\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/where-is-home-fr-pimen-vlad\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Home? &#8211; Fr. Pimen Vlad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is \u201chome\u201d for a spiritual person? What are Father Pimen Vlad\u2019s impressions after his pilgrimage in Romania?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch this video to find out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"amara-embed\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVWfnJjdxBI\" data-initial-language=\"en\" data-show-subtitles-default=\"true\" data-team=\"o-chilie-athonita\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/amara.org\/embedder-iframe\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here we are again, my dear ones. Like Romanians like to say: there&#8217;s no place like home! Do you understand? I tried to capture a bit of the Athon peak, but I don&#8217;t think it shows up here. I came up to the orchard because&#8230; I would have filmed in the yard, but since we have Christians and pilgrims coming all the time these days, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to film there. So, I thought I\u2019d run back to the orchard, where my escape is, since it&#8217;s more peaceful here. It&#8217;s higher up, [and] I escape a bit from the thoroughfare, as they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t even know where to start. First of all, I give glory to God and I thank Mother of God, that I\u2019m able to record a video from home again. As I said before, it\u2019s good for a person to have a \u201chome.\u201d Of course, our \u201chome\u201d is in Heaven. That is where we came from, and that is where we are going back to. But during our time here on earth, it\u2019s good to have a \u201chome.\u201d A home that is dear to you. A home you\u2019re happy to return to no matter where you are in the world\u2014 a place you long for. And \u201chome\u201d becomes that place where you can rest, where you know you find yourself, you can stay connected to God, and\u2014as they say\u2014rest easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s how I\u2019ll try to do it; I didn\u2019t plan this video in advance or think about what I\u2019m going to tell you, but since I\u2019ve traveled a lot around [Romania], through many places\u2014 I hope you can hear me, because the autumn wind is blowing; autumn has started to make its presence felt, as they say, wanting us to notice it too; a little wind is normal at this time of year. Coming from [Romania], having been in contact with so many people\u2014you\u2019ve probably seen some of the footage from my travels around the country\u2014I\u2019ve come to understand a lot of things and learned a lot. I also met some wonderful, kind people\u2014quite a few of them, in fact; that is, most of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what&#8217;s going on in this world? It\u2019s up to us how we navigate the ups and downs of life. I&#8217;ve always said that life is beautiful, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s easy. Life has its challenges, but we should always look on the bright side\u2014the beautiful side of life\u2014and not just focus on our troubles, suffering, and pain, and get stuck in them. No. Let us look beyond them, and of course, to do so, we must constantly ask for the help of God and the Mother of God, for otherwise we cannot cope. That is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can I say? As I traveled around the country, I saw that there are good people everywhere. I was truly delighted to visit His Eminence Teodosie in Constan\u021ba. A wonderful person, childlike, and full of love. We had a chance to chat for a bit, to look each other in the eye, as they say, and I was glad. A wonderful man, a man full of love\u2014like a child, one might say\u2014a good bishop. After that, who else have I run into more recently? The Metropolitan of Moldavia, His Eminence Teofan, who is also a grounded, calm, and peaceful man\u2014just like a father, like a shepherd\u2014 someone you can turn to for advice. I actually sat down and talked with him, as they say; we discussed a few useful things, and His Eminence encouraged me as well\u2014just like a father would, wholeheartedly, with great calm, peacefully, exactly as a father should be. Yes, wonderful people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, when I arrived in Timi\u0219oara, I met His Grace Siluan of Hungary there\u2014 another bishop with a smile on his face, full of love. We really rejoiced; we hugged each other, and he was so full of joy, too. And there are many bishops, but I\u2019m talking about the ones I\u2019ve had direct contact with\u2014 the ones I\u2019ve truly rejoiced with, and who have been like fathers to me, as they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, after that, I met people everywhere, but I met many wonderful young people, wonderful and beautiful children. What can I say? Even there, in Timi\u0219oara, so many young people had gathered\u2014 they were all so beautiful. I saw them there, the future of the country, all smiling, their eyes smiling too. They were singing and rejoicing, so it was evident that God was with them, and I was truly glad about that\u2014that I had the opportunity to connect with them during this gathering. I talked with them, listened to them, listened to them sing, and rejoiced together with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonderful, good young people who are the future of the country and who have a connection with God. That is why those who serve as shepherds in the Church should take care of young people. They should keep young people close and take the greatest care of them, because they are the future of the country. And to those who are now entering their middle age, I say that they will be well if there are good young people in our country who are growing up well, because they are the future of the country. And then the elderly will be able to have a peaceful old age. That is why we must care for young people, keep them close, with patience and love, and help them grow into good people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I\u2019ve mentioned this before\u2014you\u2019ve probably heard me talk about it\u2014 somewhere in Giroc, at a church, there was a wonderful priest, a good priest, the kind of priest, as they say, who has a lot of love for the faithful, but especially for young people. I was really happy at his church that two thousand people had come. Plus, we met up for a bit that evening. He also invited some of the volunteers who had helped at ITO &#8211; this meeting of Orthodox youth. And hundreds of young people came, and we enjoyed a spiritual evening. So, it really was something wonderful and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More priests should be doing this\u2014bringing young people together and organizing various meetings with them. Not just at church, but also outside, on certain days, in the evening, to meet up with them, to talk with them, to go out with them, organize a camp\u2014because this priest actually does organize them. After that, he showed me various things\u2014on major holidays, like Christmas, at the Nativity\u2014how they prepare packages and deliver them to all the poor families, but he does all this with the help of young volunteers. So, together with them\u2014he involves them in doing good. You have no idea how valuable this is. This should be expanded as much as possible. Priests should get involved, and, of course, from the top. The bishops should encourage this and support the priests who are actively involved in this work, because young people need to be brought to church, to God\u2014you need to know this. Otherwise, if we somehow prevent young people from coming to church, we will bear a heavy responsibility before God. Because if even one soul is lost because of us\u2014due to our pride, our indifference, or our self-interest\u2014we will have much to answer for before God; we will have to give an account. It doesn&#8217;t matter what position we hold, from top to bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the Church leadership must take the lead, followed by the priests, and then the Christians, because let\u2019s not forget that we all make up the Church. From the clergy down to the last Christian\u2014as the saying goes, from the bishop to the peasant\u2014 we are all part of the Church, and we all have a duty to get involved, not only for our own benefit\u2014be it physical and spiritual\u2014but for the benefit of the entire community. Because otherwise we will have to answer to God. And I say this based on my experience traveling these roads, having seen and learned a lot. But as I said, those young people have truly remained in my heart. And wherever I went, do you know where I rejoiced the most? Visiting families, places where there were lots of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being surrounded by the children brought me immense joy. Children don&#8217;t ask anything of you; they just give you their love. They&#8217;re coming to give you a hug; they&#8217;re coming to rejoice with you. So, they don&#8217;t wear you out; they give you rest and nourish you. You feel like you&#8217;re gaining strength among them. And I was actually talking with the kids\u2014each with their own stories, as I\u2019ve mentioned before\u2014a girl of about 13 told me, since she knew certain things in the family&#8230;, that is, I saw her struggle to be as close to God as possible. So, she would pray all the time, and for everything should would make the sign of the cross. Even when she was walking down the street, the moment something came to mind\u2014any thought\u2014she would make the sign of the cross. Whenever she took a glass of water or a bottle of water to drink, she would make the sign of the cross over it. And she did this all the time\u2014at school, on the street, and wherever she happened to be eating\u2014she was never ashamed to make the sign of the cross, because she felt the power of the Holy Cross. And that was always her weapon. Whatever she did, she made the sign of the cross and moved on. To see a 13-year-old doing this\u2014something that even those with a whole life behind them might be embarrassed to do. It really makes me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, there was a girl around 16 years old who said to me, \u201cFather, I have a small icon of the Mother of God, and I take it with me to school and put it on my desk among my things, so I can see it there. I always pray to her whenever I have an exam; when I&#8217;m at high school, I always pray to the Mother of God, and she helps me. I couldn&#8217;t live without the Mother of God, without the Church, without God. I always ask her for help, in every situation!\u201d &#8230;Without being embarrassed that maybe some people might laugh at the fact that she has that icon there. No! So, with all her courage, she kept going and prayed, knowing that this was her only hope. She said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t live without this!&#8221; As it&#8217;s said, the children are teaching us lessons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or I met, again, some little kids at another family\u2019s house\u2014two little boys, just the same, full of joy and life, because their parents were just like that too. They were there for them, raising them well, and would get involved together. I remember another family; they had 12 children. How beautiful! There was so much joy there\u2014even though they didn\u2019t have enough materially, but they played together and always found ways to be together and do things together! You have no idea how much this matters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to think of it, I\u2019ve been to so many places, and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m trying to recall. You know, I remember a family that adopted four little girls\u2014one, two, three, four\u2014one after another, like little angels, raised right. I&#8217;m telling you, there are plenty of families with natural parents who aren&#8217;t that involved. [They were raised] with so much love. They were all dressed the same; I was there with the family. All four of them gathered around me, took me in their arms, and said, \u201cMy dear, precious father!\u201d They were just like little angels. Yes, so you see, that\u2019s how it is with children, and many people run, they avoid having children, because &#8220;It\u2019s hard\u2026.&#8221; It\u2019s not easy, but doesn\u2019t it say [in Scripture] that, &#8220;she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness&#8230;&#8221; And by raising them, of course. When they&#8217;re little, it might be a little harder at first, but after that, little by little&#8230;, God helps! So, here on earth, we cannot run away from the cross that God has given us. We have to struggle, do our best, and even if we fall, we have to get back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve also been to Ia\u0219i\u2014as some of you may have already seen. About two thousand people gathered there. It was with the Metropolitan\u2019s blessing; he gladly gave it to me so I could speak to the Christians there one evening. It was actually for three hours\u2014and I was very happy to see their faith and piety, and how lovingly they came, people of all walks of life, including children, and young people, people of all ages\u2014not a single one moved for three hours. So that means there is still faith in our country. Returning to Venerable Paraskeva [of the Balkans]. You saw\u2014 there haven&#8217;t been this many people at St. Paraskeva&#8217;s in any other year. So their estimate\u2014just a rough idea, since no one has counted exactly\u2014 but generally, they did a survey: there were over 350,000 people, [that came to the feast day of St. Paraskeva]. Do you realize what that means? I don\u2019t know about the countries around us\u2014apart from Russia, where there are so many people \u2014but in the other countries, I wonder if so many people still gather anywhere to celebrate a saint. You realize, these people didn&#8217;t come for nothing; they felt the Saint&#8217;s help, and that&#8217;s why they came there great love. We have wonderful saints, and I&#8217;m glad that people stay close to them and ask them for help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else was I going to say? Also at the feast of Saint Demetrius, again, I saw that this year was beautiful because the relic of the hand of the Holy and Glorious Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki was brought [to Bucharest], along with the icon of the Mother of God, Panaghia Soumela of Veria, which is among the first icons ever painted by the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke during the lifetime of the Mother of God, and this icon is miracle-working. In other words, it was a tremendous gift for Bucharest and for all of Romania. I was also able to be in Bucharest at that moment to take part in the \u201cWay of the Saints\u201d\u2014as the procession with the holy relics was called\u2014 and we rejoiced together. After that, the next day I went to Thessaloniki; I arrived on the evening of the 25th and was there for the 26th, the feast day of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr, and I rejoiced in the saint&#8217;s service. It really was very beautiful and uplifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I, also having some health issues\u2014I mean, I\u2019m not going to sit here and complain, but I have some pretty serious back problems; I can\u2019t stand for very long anymore. The problems are what they are. And I was at St. Demetrius, somewhere up on the balcony, and all the seats were taken, so I was standing there leaning against a pillar. And I stood there for about an hour until I felt like I couldn&#8217;t do it anymore. My back was aching, I was breaking out in a cold sweat and feeling dizzy, and I knew I couldn\u2019t stand much longer, but I said, \u201cSaint Demetrius, this is it\u2014I\u2019ll hold on as long as I can, when I&#8217;ll collapse\u2014I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; And at one point I said to him, \u201cSt. Demetrius, I\u2019m feeling dizzy!\u201d I felt like I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore, but I couldn&#8217;t ask anyone to give up their seat for me\u2014I just couldn&#8217;t do that\u2014so I ended up holding onto that pole. And I said, \u201cSaint Demetrius, if you think\u2014not that I deserve it, because I certainly don\u2019t deserve it\u2014 if you think it would be helpful for someone to bring me a chair, then please arrange for someone to bring me one,&#8221; because there were no chairs there; there were only these wooden benches, tied together in groups of three. And I said, &#8220;&#8230;you could arrange for someone to bring me a chair because you see I\u2019m already getting dizzy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was only a few minutes\u2014five at most\u2014since I said that, when I felt someone touch me from behind and bring me a plastic chair with a backrest. He just motioned to me, put it there for me, and left. I sat down and said, \u201cThank you, Saint Demetrius!\u201d So, out of that whole crowd\u2014the balcony was packed\u2014someone brought me a chair; in other words, Saint Demetrius took care of it. He knew I\u2019d been standing long enough, so he gave me that chair. It was a gift from Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr, and I have always thanked him, saying, &#8220;Saint Demetrius, help all those who have come here. Look, you took care of me so quickly\u2014as soon as I said I couldn&#8217;t go on, you brought me a chair from right where there weren&#8217;t any.&#8221; Yes, Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr and all the saints are great protectors, you should know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll wrap it up here, and if the Mother of God, the Saints, and the Benevolent God will it, we\u2019ll hear from each other again. May the Mother of God and all the saints help us and intercede before the Benevolent God for us! May the Lord help us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And don&#8217;t forget\u2014there&#8217;s no place like home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is \u201chome\u201d for a spiritual person? What are Father Pimen Vlad\u2019s impressions after his pilgrimage in Romania? Watch this video to find out! Enjoy! 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