Metropolitan
Georges uses the third person, “my friend”, and not the first person “I.” More
than a literary technique, “my friend” expresses a spiritual posture which
enables Metropolitan Georges to stand apart from himself which, paradoxically
allows for the intimacy needed to speak openly about himself and the world.
For a long time hope lived, but then came the time of disillusions.
It is not enough for men to realize that they are to repent. For knowing that
their passions lead to a disastrous fate, they do not cease to nurse them. They
fall again into the same sins [either] through weakness or delight. Truly, they
have very little interest in God. Moreover, many have no interest in him
whatsoever. And nothing indicates that the bearers of the message, i.e. “the
stewards of God’s mysteries” should be more profoundly anchored in divine
things.