Metropolitan Boulos Bandaly draws you out of the follies of this world — indeed, he rescues you from them. The world and its pattern are wearying to the soul; they burden it with countless trivialities. But the "mad" acts of love of this pious elder are able to pull you out of them.
The world sees love as nothing but foolishness. The world urges you to accept its logic, and demonises the madness of the lover. Yes, love is madness. And the Cross is madness. And yet there is no rationality in the world but this madness. And we are mad with the love of the Crucified.
Dostoevsky was right when he said, "Beauty will save the world." For there is no true beauty except that it is kneaded with love, and no love except that it was ravishing in its beauty, and it alone is able to save the world. From this love, poured out upon the Cross and healing for the whole world, come "the mad ones of love" such as Boulos Bandaly.