Publisher's introduction
This book, which we present to you, is one of the well-known spiritual books, and has its status and place in modern religious literature. Translated into many languages, [...]
This book, which we present to you, is one of the well-known spiritual books, and has its status and place in modern religious literature. Translated into many languages, [...]
Tourist: My dear friend, the professor, and I could not resist the desire to start our journey and pay you a short visit before that to bid farewell and ask
STARTS: It had been a year since my last encounter with the tourist, when - finally - a muffled knock on the door and a pleading voice...
“And it has pleased me to be close to God, and I have made the Lord my refuge and my hope” (Psalm 72:28). When I returned to my spiritual father's house, I said:
Before I left Irkutsk, I returned to my godfather, with whom I had had conversations, and said to him: Here I am going.
As long as I moved from place to place, I was accompanied by the Jesus prayer, which strengthened and comforted me on all paths, at all times.
Our saint was born in Dimitsana, Arcadia, in the year 1745 AD. His father was a shepherd, and he first studied with the monk Meletius and Athanasius Rosepoulos.
Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople, Saint and New Martyr Continue reading »