WHY DID YOUR SON NOT ACCOMPANY YOU?

 
ONE OF THE CLOSE PEOPLE TO POPE KYROLLOS WROTE THE FOLLOWING:

EVERY YEAR, (UP TO THE YEAR 1967) MY FATHER HAD A CUSTOM OF VISITING POPE KYROLLOS TO OBTAIN A BLESSING AND TO ASK HIM TO PRAY FOR ME, SO THAT GOD GRANTS ME SUCCESS IN MY EXAMS THAT YEAR. EVERY TIME HIS HOLINESS WOULD SAY, “ YOUR SON WILL SUCCEED”, AND SO I DID EVERY TIME.

IN 1967, PRIOR TO THE SECOND HALF OF MY DIPLOMA EXAM, MY FATHER WENT TO POPE KYROLLOS AND ASKED HIM TO PRAY FOR ME. THIS TIME POPE KYROLLOS WAS UPSET BECAUSE I NEVER ACCOMPANIED MY FATHER WHEN I NEEDED HIS HOLINESS TO PRAY FOR ME. POPE KYROLLOS SAID TO MY FATHER: “ WHY DID YOUR SON NOT ACCOMPANY YOU?” AND HE DID NOT TELL MY FATHER, LIKE EVERY TIME, THAT I WOULD SUCCEED. MY FATHER DID NOT TELL ME ABOUT THIS INCIDENT UNTIL I FAILED MY DIPLOMA EXAMS (THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I FAILED AN EXAM IN MY LIFE).

THE FOLLOWING YEAR, I WENT TO POPE KYROLLOS IN HUMILITY, AND I ASKED FOR HIS BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS SO THAT I COULD SUCCEEED. THIS TIME HIS HOLINESS SAID TO ME: “ GOD WILLING, YOU WILL SUCCEED MY SON”…. AND IT WAS. I SUCCEEEDED THAT YEAR.

 

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