The Holy Apostles Erastus, Olympus, Rodion, and those with them.
2 Thessalonians 1:10-2:2; Luke 12:42-48.
Read 2 Thessalonians 1:10-2:2
St. Seraphim of Sarov, a great 19th-century starets (elder), famously said, “Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will be saved.” Inner peace is one of those individual states that are attractive to the observer for what the observer sees is someone who, no matter what occurs, does not become troubled or shaken to the extent that inner peace is lost or broken.
In this past pandemic, at various times, we may have had shaken our inner peace. Many of the ways we had to adapt to the pandemic circumstances may have troubled us or shaken this inner peace. The instability in many sectors around the post-pandemic world today may also lead to having our inner peace disturbed.