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Eternity in the Moment: The Life and Wisdom of Elder Arsenie Papacioc
Translator: Ieremia (Hiermonk), Simona Irime
Elder Arsenie (Papacioc) of Romania (1914–2011) was a witness of the eternal truth of Christ, given by God to contemporary man. A man of deep prayer, he also possessed experiential knowledge of the ways of the world. Before going to the monastery, he had been a gifted athlete, a talented sculptor, a soldier, a mayor, and a prisoner of the Romanian Communist regime. Prison became a spiritual academy for him, and after his release he dedicated his life to God as a monastic. For the next six decades he would labor as a monk—in prison and out of prison. He became a beloved spiritual father, counseling the nuns of the Techirghiol Monastery and the multitude of faithful who flocked to his monastic cell. Drawing on his knowledge of the spiritual life and the workings of the world, he was able to guide people to a life in Christ, marked by activity, not philosophizing and speculation.
Every endeavor of his life was characterized by an intensity of purpose and an uncompromising confession of the truth: a knowledge that within each moment we make our choice for eternity. During his long years in prison, he had profound experiences of grace, which helped him realize the power of suffering and sacrifice for Christ. As he himself said, “We must sacrifice not what we have, but what we are.”
This comprehensive biography, compiled from the elder’s own words, the recollections of his spiritual children, and the 3,500 pages of files kept by the Romanian secret police, includes many of Fr. Arsenie’s counsels and spiritual maxims.
Publisher: The biography and spiritual counsels of a beloved spiritual father of Romania, Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc (1914-2011). Before becoming a monk, Fr. Arsenie had been a gifted athlete, a talented sculptor, a soldier, a mayor, and a prisoner of the Romanian Communist regime. Prison became a spiritual academy for him, and after his release he dedicated his life to God as a monastic. For the next six decades he would labor as a monk—in prison and out of prison. He became a beloved spiritual father, counseling the nuns of the Techirghiol Monastery and the multitude of faithful who flocked to his monastic cell. Drawing on his knowledge of the spiritual life and the workings of the world, he was able to guide people to a life in Christ, marked by activity, not philosophizing and speculation. This comprehensive biography, compiled from the elder’s own words, the recollections of his spiritual children, and the 3,500 pages of files kept by the Romanian secret police, includes many of Fr. Arsenie’s counsels and spiritual maxims.
-Publisher.
Elder Arsenie (Papacioc) of Romania (1914–2011) was a witness of the eternal truth of Christ, given by God to contemporary man. A man of deep prayer, he also possessed experiential knowledge of the ways of the world. Before going to the monastery, he had been a gifted athlete, a talented sculptor, a soldier, a mayor, and a prisoner of the Romanian Communist regime. Prison became a spiritual academy for him, and after his release he dedicated his life to God as a monastic. For the next six decades he would labor as a monk—in prison and out of prison. He became a beloved spiritual father, counseling the nuns of the Techirghiol Monastery and the multitude of faithful who flocked to his monastic cell. Drawing on his knowledge of the spiritual life and the workings of the world, he was able to guide people to a life in Christ, marked by activity, not philosophizing and speculation.
Every endeavor of his life was characterized by an intensity of purpose and an uncompromising confession of the truth: a knowledge that within each moment we make our choice for eternity. During his long years in prison, he had profound experiences of grace, which helped him realize the power of suffering and sacrifice for Christ. As he himself said, “We must sacrifice not what we have, but what we are.”
This comprehensive biography, compiled from the elder’s own words, the recollections of his spiritual children, and the 3,500 pages of files kept by the Romanian secret police, includes many of Fr. Arsenie’s counsels and spiritual maxims.
Publisher: The biography and spiritual counsels of a beloved spiritual father of Romania, Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc (1914-2011). Before becoming a monk, Fr. Arsenie had been a gifted athlete, a talented sculptor, a soldier, a mayor, and a prisoner of the Romanian Communist regime. Prison became a spiritual academy for him, and after his release he dedicated his life to God as a monastic. For the next six decades he would labor as a monk—in prison and out of prison. He became a beloved spiritual father, counseling the nuns of the Techirghiol Monastery and the multitude of faithful who flocked to his monastic cell. Drawing on his knowledge of the spiritual life and the workings of the world, he was able to guide people to a life in Christ, marked by activity, not philosophizing and speculation. This comprehensive biography, compiled from the elder’s own words, the recollections of his spiritual children, and the 3,500 pages of files kept by the Romanian secret police, includes many of Fr. Arsenie’s counsels and spiritual maxims.
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February 3, 2024
Here are some of the passages I underlined:
“If you don’t take revenge, God will remain indebted to you. All vengeance is His. Revenge does not solve your problem. On the contrary, if you take revenge you continue to be greatly in debt to God. Therefore, [If you don’t take revenge] God owes you.”
“On the other hand, you’re allowed to defend yourself from evil-doers, for the Savior says, ‘if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up (Matt. 24:43). Clearly, you won’t just try to stop him if he attacks you: rather, you’ll fight him. Yes, you have to defend yourself. Thus, he could be injured. By all means, you’re allowed to defend yourself!” (I put a large question mark by this paragraph).
“ I kept pondering why great saints like Saint Basil the great and others, who had tremendous opportunities, desired to live in the wilderness. The wilderness is something unique; it is another world. In the wilderness it’s just you and God. There you have to become friends with the forest. Life in the wilderness is such that an outsider can’t understand what happens there; it’s a presence and the entire creation is contained in the heart and the action of the recluse. I also knew fear in those years, but God helped me to remain vigilant.”
…
“ Life in the wilderness is highly laudable; we have to understand that the prayers of a hermit benefit of the world enormously there is no authentic life in the wilderness if you don’t have the whole world, as it is, in your heart!”
…
“This was the issue: keeping the devil at a distance. He causes you suffering if he gets a hold of you in someway. You can’t resist him unless an authentic humility rules over you, a true humility. Never see yourself as humble. Humility is the art of staying in your place.”
“ One should not converse with the devil. You have to ignore him.”
“ The smallest evil is not a little thing in life. Make sure the devil does not have a hold on you through anything.”
“So, it is not permitted to knock at Christ’s door with stains, since any little skin is not small! But we shouldn’t construe this to mean that our struggle is to become perfect only in not committing sins! This is a little brash, and it is not the way of humility. You have to believe that the grace of God is helping you and that if you’re something, it’s only by God‘s grace. This is how I understood the words of Saint Silouan, uttered to him by the Savior: ‘keep their mind in hell, and despair or not!’ Our deeds can’t save us; therefore, we have a need for a continuous and authentic humility; not a rational humility, but a true humility.”
“ The ‘petal’ of struggling should not be pushed too much, but rather the focus [of the struggle] is what is important.”
“… only the ones who truly live their faith remain the people of God, the people who sincerely and humbly reflect on the subject of salvation. The Church doesn’t embrace studying as much as it does experience, which reflects the fact that we do not desire an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly one. Only the one who humbles himself enters there: it doesn’t matter if he’s a cowboy or an emperor only one who strives toward true humility enters there.”
“This was always Fr. Arsenie’s approach to prayer: ‘
Personally, I am not for fixed prayer rules. Although they do have their particular benefit, especially for self-discipline, man shouldn’t be inflexible but he should be precise in terms of the method he uses to grow spiritually. We don’t need a fixed prayer rule immediately. We need our heart to be continually present; this permanent state of love, of a relationship with God—-this is the essence of prayer. Because deep silence also means deep prayer and deep prayer means deep silence…I’m more interested in unceasing spiritual trembling. Therefore …. every moment is a taste of eternity in every size I can be a prayer. You don’t just say I like this: ‘Humph!’ Your sigh to God should spring toward Him from the depths of your heart. Thus He reveals Himself to us, for He does not reveal Himself to a clever mind…but only to the one pure in heart, to the one whose heart turns toward him unceasingly.’”
“He also wrote in a letter to a nun that a multitude of prayers or prostrations is not the most important thing… but rather, man’s permanent state of awareness of being in God‘s presence.”
“Blessed are those who fight for Christian love—- the only freedom.”
“Fr. Arsenide said to one of his cellmates: ‘We have to put our hope in God and dedicate our lives to Christ. Here we must battle and affirm our position and mindset because one cannot know how God establishes the path to turn everything into good in the end. You’ve seen how the Church in our country has prospered and achieved great things during the Communist regime—-things that not only didn’t occur during the so-called times of freedom, but also were impossible to attain. Misfortune had to come for order and discipline to be brought about in the Church and for the careless people of yesterday to rise today and like-mindedness and a desire for the spiritual life, at a new level of experience.”
“This is how he would encourage those who suffered with him: through hope and optimism.”
“The secret was this: the unceasing awareness of God’s presence, knowing what you’re suffering for. This is like a tangible explanation, like a dialogue with one’s own self, so to speak. But you can’t rationalize this: we were living in God we were in heaven. We couldn’t pretend there. In the midst of the fire you can’t say ‘more this way or that way’—- it’s fire. You burn on all sides without being consumed; or you’re consumed bit by bit.”
“Thus, I tell you: you can resist only due to God’s extremely hidden, yet very real, presence within you otherwise it’s not possible, ‘for without me you can do nothing (John 15:5)!”
“Let us love the wound and the one who caused it….Accept any blow as spiritual people do. Good people help you greatly towards salvation, but the evil-doers, even more. Suffer them without causing them trouble. All the ages have been filled with enemies, but the enemies of this age have filled the heavens with saints.”
“Alexander the Great once asked a wise man, ‘how can man become like God?’ ‘If he does what God does,’ replied the wise man. ‘And what is God doing?’ ‘He loves his enemies.’”
“Officially, there was freedom of worship in Romania. There was a law regulating the activity of different religions and affirming the unrestricted nature of religious expression. But in fact the Communist Party had an atheistic doctrine; moreover, God had to be annihilated, uprooted, from the hearts and minds of those would make reference to him. However, this annihilation of Christ from the souls of those who zealously served him had to be accomplished secretly, behind the façade of other ideals.”
“The truth is that we have to be honest and humble…God comes to your aid if you are honest and love the people. I don’t philosophize. Philosophizing is a big mistake, because only a contrite heart knows God.”
“It is not enough for you to have the prayer: we have to become prayer, prayer incarnate. Every deed, gesture, or smile is a hymn of praise, of sacrifice—-a prayer.”
“We are called to descend, not from the mind, but with the mind. The goal is not the ‘prayer of the heart’ but the ‘prayer of the mind in the heart’ as a different forms of understanding, including the reason, our gifts from God, and they have to be used in his service, not rejected. This ‘union’ of the mind with the heart means the restoration of our fallen and fragmented being, the restoration of our original righteousness. The prayer in the heart is a return to Paradise, a deposit for and in anticipation of the age to come, which in this age is never fully attained. The Jesus prayer helps us see Christ in every man and everyone in Christ, it makes each one ‘a man for the others.’ The path of the Name is open, generous—- not limited by rigid and immutable rules. The prayer is work; to pray means to be at the highest level of Engagement, and our breath becomes one with the Divine Breath, Which sustains the universe.”
“Christianity is a land of paradoxes. The way going uphill is easier than the one leading downhill because one of man’s greatest mistakes is that he runs away from the cross, he flees suffering.”
“almsgiving is one of the great preparation‘s for eternity: giving something from yourself. Behold, the whole of scripture is mercy!”
“And you don’t own what you possess, but you have what you give. And you don’t give from what you have, but you give up yourself.”
“Fr. Arsenie liked to say, ‘it is not our daily bread that is important, but the bread of our neighbor—-this is what we have to attend to.”
“The greatest error is for one to isolate oneself. It is only by living properly, by loving madly—-absolute total love—-that sometime somewhere we can truly be saviors.“
“Fr. Arsenie recalled a conversation [in which someone said to him] ‘Fr., this world is getting worse and worse.’ And I told him, ‘…you have to be aware of the fact that the tribulations of the world are also caused by you. Your sins negatively affect the whole of humanity.”
“In teaching people, he emphasized another provision for living and authentic Christian life: love of enemies. He considered that people theorized about this for two more than they put it into practice. As one who had practiced love of enemies and tasted the spiritual joy and freedom and brings even from childhood, he would tirelessly urge the attainment of it. ‘Love of enemies as a commandment, not a suggestion. Strive to truly love your enemies, regardless of the state you find yourself in. If you’re unable to love them from the beginning, at least try not to hate them. God rejoices. God will help you if you always persist as a beginner in this virtue. And if death comes, it finds you fighting to love your enemies, and God does the rest. The important thing is for you to be on the path.”
“Tell them that God takes people at the moment when they have the greatest chance of salvation.”
“The Mother of God is grieved by all those who ask nothing of her. She is openhearted toward those who, out of carelessness or in gratitude, rarely run to her. But how much more generous will she be toward those who unceasingly beg her aid? These are not only beloved of her, but are even served by her.”
“ I believe that the mother of God is more at home among the sorrowful, the week, and all manner of the persecuted, then in the company of Angels. The mother of God is continuously sacrificing herself, constantly suffering, and I believe she even engages in defending the ailing who call on her for help before the divine throne. She loves beyond imagination and without discrimination even the wicked and the careless.”
“If you don’t take revenge, God will remain indebted to you. All vengeance is His. Revenge does not solve your problem. On the contrary, if you take revenge you continue to be greatly in debt to God. Therefore, [If you don’t take revenge] God owes you.”
“On the other hand, you’re allowed to defend yourself from evil-doers, for the Savior says, ‘if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up (Matt. 24:43). Clearly, you won’t just try to stop him if he attacks you: rather, you’ll fight him. Yes, you have to defend yourself. Thus, he could be injured. By all means, you’re allowed to defend yourself!” (I put a large question mark by this paragraph).
“ I kept pondering why great saints like Saint Basil the great and others, who had tremendous opportunities, desired to live in the wilderness. The wilderness is something unique; it is another world. In the wilderness it’s just you and God. There you have to become friends with the forest. Life in the wilderness is such that an outsider can’t understand what happens there; it’s a presence and the entire creation is contained in the heart and the action of the recluse. I also knew fear in those years, but God helped me to remain vigilant.”
…
“ Life in the wilderness is highly laudable; we have to understand that the prayers of a hermit benefit of the world enormously there is no authentic life in the wilderness if you don’t have the whole world, as it is, in your heart!”
…
“This was the issue: keeping the devil at a distance. He causes you suffering if he gets a hold of you in someway. You can’t resist him unless an authentic humility rules over you, a true humility. Never see yourself as humble. Humility is the art of staying in your place.”
“ One should not converse with the devil. You have to ignore him.”
“ The smallest evil is not a little thing in life. Make sure the devil does not have a hold on you through anything.”
“So, it is not permitted to knock at Christ’s door with stains, since any little skin is not small! But we shouldn’t construe this to mean that our struggle is to become perfect only in not committing sins! This is a little brash, and it is not the way of humility. You have to believe that the grace of God is helping you and that if you’re something, it’s only by God‘s grace. This is how I understood the words of Saint Silouan, uttered to him by the Savior: ‘keep their mind in hell, and despair or not!’ Our deeds can’t save us; therefore, we have a need for a continuous and authentic humility; not a rational humility, but a true humility.”
“ The ‘petal’ of struggling should not be pushed too much, but rather the focus [of the struggle] is what is important.”
“… only the ones who truly live their faith remain the people of God, the people who sincerely and humbly reflect on the subject of salvation. The Church doesn’t embrace studying as much as it does experience, which reflects the fact that we do not desire an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly one. Only the one who humbles himself enters there: it doesn’t matter if he’s a cowboy or an emperor only one who strives toward true humility enters there.”
“This was always Fr. Arsenie’s approach to prayer: ‘
Personally, I am not for fixed prayer rules. Although they do have their particular benefit, especially for self-discipline, man shouldn’t be inflexible but he should be precise in terms of the method he uses to grow spiritually. We don’t need a fixed prayer rule immediately. We need our heart to be continually present; this permanent state of love, of a relationship with God—-this is the essence of prayer. Because deep silence also means deep prayer and deep prayer means deep silence…I’m more interested in unceasing spiritual trembling. Therefore …. every moment is a taste of eternity in every size I can be a prayer. You don’t just say I like this: ‘Humph!’ Your sigh to God should spring toward Him from the depths of your heart. Thus He reveals Himself to us, for He does not reveal Himself to a clever mind…but only to the one pure in heart, to the one whose heart turns toward him unceasingly.’”
“He also wrote in a letter to a nun that a multitude of prayers or prostrations is not the most important thing… but rather, man’s permanent state of awareness of being in God‘s presence.”
“Blessed are those who fight for Christian love—- the only freedom.”
“Fr. Arsenide said to one of his cellmates: ‘We have to put our hope in God and dedicate our lives to Christ. Here we must battle and affirm our position and mindset because one cannot know how God establishes the path to turn everything into good in the end. You’ve seen how the Church in our country has prospered and achieved great things during the Communist regime—-things that not only didn’t occur during the so-called times of freedom, but also were impossible to attain. Misfortune had to come for order and discipline to be brought about in the Church and for the careless people of yesterday to rise today and like-mindedness and a desire for the spiritual life, at a new level of experience.”
“This is how he would encourage those who suffered with him: through hope and optimism.”
“The secret was this: the unceasing awareness of God’s presence, knowing what you’re suffering for. This is like a tangible explanation, like a dialogue with one’s own self, so to speak. But you can’t rationalize this: we were living in God we were in heaven. We couldn’t pretend there. In the midst of the fire you can’t say ‘more this way or that way’—- it’s fire. You burn on all sides without being consumed; or you’re consumed bit by bit.”
“Thus, I tell you: you can resist only due to God’s extremely hidden, yet very real, presence within you otherwise it’s not possible, ‘for without me you can do nothing (John 15:5)!”
“Let us love the wound and the one who caused it….Accept any blow as spiritual people do. Good people help you greatly towards salvation, but the evil-doers, even more. Suffer them without causing them trouble. All the ages have been filled with enemies, but the enemies of this age have filled the heavens with saints.”
“Alexander the Great once asked a wise man, ‘how can man become like God?’ ‘If he does what God does,’ replied the wise man. ‘And what is God doing?’ ‘He loves his enemies.’”
“Officially, there was freedom of worship in Romania. There was a law regulating the activity of different religions and affirming the unrestricted nature of religious expression. But in fact the Communist Party had an atheistic doctrine; moreover, God had to be annihilated, uprooted, from the hearts and minds of those would make reference to him. However, this annihilation of Christ from the souls of those who zealously served him had to be accomplished secretly, behind the façade of other ideals.”
“The truth is that we have to be honest and humble…God comes to your aid if you are honest and love the people. I don’t philosophize. Philosophizing is a big mistake, because only a contrite heart knows God.”
“It is not enough for you to have the prayer: we have to become prayer, prayer incarnate. Every deed, gesture, or smile is a hymn of praise, of sacrifice—-a prayer.”
“We are called to descend, not from the mind, but with the mind. The goal is not the ‘prayer of the heart’ but the ‘prayer of the mind in the heart’ as a different forms of understanding, including the reason, our gifts from God, and they have to be used in his service, not rejected. This ‘union’ of the mind with the heart means the restoration of our fallen and fragmented being, the restoration of our original righteousness. The prayer in the heart is a return to Paradise, a deposit for and in anticipation of the age to come, which in this age is never fully attained. The Jesus prayer helps us see Christ in every man and everyone in Christ, it makes each one ‘a man for the others.’ The path of the Name is open, generous—- not limited by rigid and immutable rules. The prayer is work; to pray means to be at the highest level of Engagement, and our breath becomes one with the Divine Breath, Which sustains the universe.”
“Christianity is a land of paradoxes. The way going uphill is easier than the one leading downhill because one of man’s greatest mistakes is that he runs away from the cross, he flees suffering.”
“almsgiving is one of the great preparation‘s for eternity: giving something from yourself. Behold, the whole of scripture is mercy!”
“And you don’t own what you possess, but you have what you give. And you don’t give from what you have, but you give up yourself.”
“Fr. Arsenie liked to say, ‘it is not our daily bread that is important, but the bread of our neighbor—-this is what we have to attend to.”
“The greatest error is for one to isolate oneself. It is only by living properly, by loving madly—-absolute total love—-that sometime somewhere we can truly be saviors.“
“Fr. Arsenie recalled a conversation [in which someone said to him] ‘Fr., this world is getting worse and worse.’ And I told him, ‘…you have to be aware of the fact that the tribulations of the world are also caused by you. Your sins negatively affect the whole of humanity.”
“In teaching people, he emphasized another provision for living and authentic Christian life: love of enemies. He considered that people theorized about this for two more than they put it into practice. As one who had practiced love of enemies and tasted the spiritual joy and freedom and brings even from childhood, he would tirelessly urge the attainment of it. ‘Love of enemies as a commandment, not a suggestion. Strive to truly love your enemies, regardless of the state you find yourself in. If you’re unable to love them from the beginning, at least try not to hate them. God rejoices. God will help you if you always persist as a beginner in this virtue. And if death comes, it finds you fighting to love your enemies, and God does the rest. The important thing is for you to be on the path.”
“Tell them that God takes people at the moment when they have the greatest chance of salvation.”
“The Mother of God is grieved by all those who ask nothing of her. She is openhearted toward those who, out of carelessness or in gratitude, rarely run to her. But how much more generous will she be toward those who unceasingly beg her aid? These are not only beloved of her, but are even served by her.”
“ I believe that the mother of God is more at home among the sorrowful, the week, and all manner of the persecuted, then in the company of Angels. The mother of God is continuously sacrificing herself, constantly suffering, and I believe she even engages in defending the ailing who call on her for help before the divine throne. She loves beyond imagination and without discrimination even the wicked and the careless.”
June 23, 2020
There is of course plenty of excellent spiritual counsel in this book, as there is in everything St. Herman's publishes. But for this review I would like to point out that just like all the Romanian and Russian and Greek elders and saints I've read so far, Elder Arsenie is rock-solid on the toll houses, birth control, and modest dress. It is very clear that the people raised in Orthodox societies assume very conservative stances on every point of contention in Ameridoxy.
Like Fr. George Calciu, Elder Arsenie was a Legionnaire and a nationalist. It is impossible to deny his faith after all he suffered; take note, rootless cosmopolitan Ameridox.
I will certainly be re-reading this book; along with Fr. Calciu and A Little Corner of Paradise.
Like Fr. George Calciu, Elder Arsenie was a Legionnaire and a nationalist. It is impossible to deny his faith after all he suffered; take note, rootless cosmopolitan Ameridox.
I will certainly be re-reading this book; along with Fr. Calciu and A Little Corner of Paradise.
December 30, 2024
Traditional Christianity is blessed with some of the purest minds alive. Elder Arsenie's life and key thoughts are shared in fitting homage to his magnitude. Thousands of people flock to him for counsel and guidance and we are lucky to have a glimpse into his testament of life. The wisdom in this book can apply across time and space, and to learn of the hardship of early 1900's Romania is devastating. By many accounts, Elder Arsenie should have been killed in the political prisons of communism, but mercifully he was spared and allowed to share his love with so many people. I would recommend this book to any Christian interested in traditional Christianity.
December 24, 2025
"No matter how little you are, no matter how tired, you mustn't give up. For, I repeat, no misfortune means anything. Nothing is lost as long as faith is established, the soul doesn't surrender, and you raise your head again!"
+ Elder Arsenie Papacioc
+ Elder Arsenie Papacioc
March 16, 2025
This is the latest Orthodox elder I have discovered, and what a man!
My full review is here:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/03/16/...
Though I hope to be able to do a longer post
My full review is here:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/03/16/...
Though I hope to be able to do a longer post
January 2, 2025
“Everything is about doing what you don’t like, for as much as you deny yourself in every way, God approaches you in the same measure.”
December 12, 2020
This was a book that left a profound impression on me. In fact, this is theology at its best, lived and experienced, and not just theorized. Father Arsenie, although did not attend some great university or earn academic degrees, was a man of God who witnessed the Christian Orthodox faith during the Communist regime, and successfully bore his cross up to the very end of his earthly sojourn. What impressed me the most was the fact that even though he kept getting old, he did not reject people who came to him and sought advice, but rather, because of the love which he nurtured towards his neighbors (and all of God's creation), he kept receiving them for Confession even on his death bed.
As such, I recommend this book for all Orthodox Christians (and not only) who are discouraged in their attempts, in order to see that we can overcome all the struggles of life if we place all our hope in God, and live only for Him.
As such, I recommend this book for all Orthodox Christians (and not only) who are discouraged in their attempts, in order to see that we can overcome all the struggles of life if we place all our hope in God, and live only for Him.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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