By Vladimir Znosko By means of spiritual eyes which penetrated the innermost recesses of men’s hearts, the Blessed Feofil saw much. He saw how pride, self-delusion, hatred and violence inhabited the darkness of our ignorance. He saw how, plunging into chaos of passions not penetrated by a single ray of divine light, people forgot God and, being satiated with sin, became filled with material food but starved for spiritual nourishment—Christians in name only, but in deeds and life, far from it. Using parables, he sternly revealed cruel and unjust people who had forgotten God. With meek reproof and with kindness he comforted and encouraged believing and God-fearing people.
