‘We don’t shoot the darkness; we just turn the light on’ (Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis) The great contemporary saint and much-loved Elder Porfyrios is talking about an ordinary experience: if we want to get out of the dark, we don’t take violent action, such as taking potshots at it. All we do is turn the light on. He said this in order to emphasize that the same is true in the spiritual life. What’s that? Given that we live in a world which, because of sin, has lost contact with the light which is God, and are therefore living in spiritual darkness- ‘God is light and there is no darkness in Him’ - the only thing we can do is to turn ...




















