Elder Porphyrios and Apollo 13

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing a few days ago, I thought I would offer a brief translation of a lecture circulating in Greek about the Elder Porphyrios and how he helped to save the crew from the Apollo 13 lunar mission. It is not a word for word translation, just a basic one. Unfortunately many details are left out, but the spiritual child of the Elder passed on this information because he believed it to be a miracle of God through the Elder.

The Metropolitan of Limassol Athanasios speaks here about an interesting relationship between what happened to the Apollo 13 lunar mission and Elder Porphyrios of Athens. Apparently when disaster struck mid-mission due to a technical malfunction and the mission had to be aborted and the crew safely returned back to earth, there was a meeting held with some top astronomers and scientists on how to save the crew, among whom was a spiritual child of the Elder. Before he left he went to get the Elder's blessing and explained to him what happened and how he had to travel to the United States to help take care of the problem. The Elder told him that when he got to the United States he should allow all the other scientists to speak first to give their opinions to resolve this issue, though their opinions would be wrong. Then the Elder told his spiritual child to speak last and told him exactly what to say in order to save the crew. Believing he had to be obedient to the Elder, he did as was told. The NASA scientists listened to his advice and the crew was saved.