/lit/ - Literature

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Someone said that saint Paisios used to tell him that with the gift God has bestowed upon him he could visit a military camp and convince everyone - from the commander of the camp to the soldier at the gates - to follow Christ, "but God doesn't want that". They used God's gifts only in this way and to help others. Both saints had many health problems, but that didn't scared them. Very few people knew of their existence while they were alive. Saint Porphyrios, before he passed on, asked a fellow monk to bury him in a remote and unknown place, so that his resting place won't become a place of pilgrimage.
Most of us are not like that - I think that includes the people of our faith - and that's the problem eventually. I hope and pray that you can visit such elders one day. I'm scared to do so too to be honest.