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PROLOGUE |
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INSTEAD OF AN INTRODUCTION: ELDER PORPHYRIOS OF KAVSOKALIVIA |
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My first introduction to him |
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Biography |
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The Main Characteristics of Him |
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The Most Basic
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35 |
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Epilogue |
46 |
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INTRODUCTION |
47 |
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OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM |
51 |
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The First Visit to Elder Porphyrios |
51 |
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He Visited Us |
52 |
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INCIDENCES FROM HIS LIFE |
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Indifference in the face of insults |
53 |
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The blessing of the house of ill repute |
54 |
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About his so-called error |
54 |
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St. Nicholas lights up the path |
55 |
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His councels are like a painting |
56 |
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For his library |
56 |
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His praying together with the monks of Essex in England |
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The intervention of Elder Sophronios in the healing of Elder Porphyrios |
57 |
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Amusing incindences and medical counsels |
58 |
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I would feel it when the Elder called me |
60 |
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He would respond to a doubt of mine without my asking him |
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He woud observe what I was reading before I fell asleep |
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HIS PASTORAL WORK |
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The return of a disbeliever |
61 |
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Love for the person with AIDS |
64 |
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With father Epiphanios |
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He tells us whatever we can endure |
66 |
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An objective opinion |
67 |
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He legalizes a relationship |
67 |
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The revelation of a disguise and a prayer which is realized |
68 |
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The refusal of a gift |
69 |
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Russian visitors |
69 |
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The punks |
72 |
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HIS COUNSELS |
73 |
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The Gentle Struggle |
73 |
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The Blessing Is For Everyone |
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Restricting incrementally one’s bad habits |
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A Lesson of Humbleness |
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We Should Love Those Who Do Not Love Us |
77 |
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About Prayer |
77 |
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Resurrectional Joy |
78 |
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My Deliverance from the Fear of Earthquakes |
79 |
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About Modern Music |
79 |
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HIS INFLUENCE |
81 |
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Blessings |
81 |
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A Nocturnal Visit |
82 |
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An Ineffable Fragrance |
82 |
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Medical Counseling and Intervention |
83 |
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THERAPIES |
84 |
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The healing of my seriously ill son |
84 |
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The healing of my terminally ill mother |
85 |
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There is resurrection |
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DISCERNMENT |
88 |
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The Elder sees Ochrid and as far as Lapland |
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He sees my wife’s village
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He can see subsurface water deposits |
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He observes the trip |
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The forgotten sin |
90 |
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A response to a question |
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The revelation of a need |
91 |
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About my icons |
92 |
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The opening of a pharmacy |
92 |
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The feeling of my father’s soul |
93 |
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About father Eleftherios |
93 |
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Telephone calls from Kavsokalyvia |
94 |
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You will become a bishop |
94 |
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His relics |
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A Notebook from my Encounters with Elder Porphyrios |
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BIOGRAPHY |
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How he went to Mount Athos |
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The First Year |
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The Handiwork |
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Communicating With Prayer |
102 |
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Why He Left Mount Athos |
102 |
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How He Became A Spiritual Father
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103 |
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The Secret of Confession |
104 |
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How He Stopped a Bad Habit |
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It snowed on mt. Athos. The Elder feels cold in Athens |
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You are where your spirit is.
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DIALOGUES WITH HIM
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108 |
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When your Enemy Swears at You |
108 |
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You must be obedient |
108 |
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About the Prayer |
109 |
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I Release You from Your Obedience |
110 |
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I Will Listen To You |
112 |
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Divine Grace and Joy |
112 |
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Remembrance of forgotten thoughts |
113 |
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He explains things to us so that others will listen |
114 |
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A spiritual father is a doctor filled with love |
115 |
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You should love mystical things. Do not display a sense of uneasiness before your children |
116 |
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The Issue of Identity Cards |
117 |
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We should also pray for evil people |
118 |
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You can acquire holiness in Omonia Square |
118 |
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My Joy Was to Visit the Elder |
119 |
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About death |
120 |
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Mystical Communication |
121 |
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The Holy Trinity Loves You |
121 |
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The Soul is the place where the battle of good and evil takes place |
122 |
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PASTORAL |
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How He Brought Together A Divided Family |
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A Visit of Hindus |
127 |
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Avoid Para Psychological Experiments |
129 |
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A Meeting with a Murderer |
130 |
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The Shepherd who took his blankets |
131 |
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DISCERNMENT |
133 |
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He tested the water below the surface of the ground |
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The healing of a cancer stricken person |
134 |
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Telepathic Diagnosis |
134 |
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He sees from a distance the blossoming thyme |
135 |
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A Spiritual Presence |
136 |
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MIRACLES |
137 |
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A miracle |
137 |
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The Immediate Healing of a Hand |
137 |
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The Miracle of Prayer |
138 |
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MIRACLES AFTER HIS FALLING ASLEEP |
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An Invocation and an Immediate Healing |
140 |
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THE VISIT OF MRS. E. |
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The return of a soul |
145 |
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The Visitation of the Holy Spirit |
147 |
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About Egotism |
150 |
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About the Fragrance |
150 |
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NARRATIONS FROM A RELATIVE OF MINE
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152 |
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If you have a problem phone me |
152 |
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You will become a mother |
152 |
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Come dear one, it is a cyst |
152 |
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The unfortunate little girl |
153 |
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Bad circulation |
153 |
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Where are you Elder? |
154 |
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Christ today is in your home |
154 |
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His sudden appearance after his falling asleep |
155 |
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Deliverance from a dangerous friend |
156 |
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His services |
156 |
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Memories of a Nun about Elder Porphyrios |
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A JOURNEY TO THE HOLY LAND |
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Introduction
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159 |
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Our hesitation and Elder Porphyrios |
160 |
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On the summit of Mount Sinai
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164 |
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The Holy Light |
167 |
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After Our Return |
171 |
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VARIOUS CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ELDER |
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My Acquaintance with Elder Porphyrios |
174 |
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He is concerned about my brother’s problem |
175 |
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And what are you doing about fasting?
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176 |
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My renewed skeletal structure |
178 |
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Conversations in the taxi |
179 |
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The Death of D.H
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180 |
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What Are We Going To Do With The Youth, Elder? |
182 |
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Our Dress and the Soul |
183 |
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He is Concerned about Being Overweight |
184 |
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The Triodion and Genuflections |
185 |
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He Personally Called a Suffering Soul |
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Even Though He is blind, He Sees |
187 |
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Disobedience Because of Zeal and Pain |
188 |
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Miraculous Humbleness
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190 |
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The Unbelieving Friend |
190 |
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Avoid Attending Exorcisms |
194 |
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The Way Evil Thoughts are banished
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195 |
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How he helped a Cancer Stricken Friend |
196 |
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How he banished the Agony of a Friend |
198 |
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And after his repose he is close to us
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Miraculous Experiences of the Spouses Th. and V. |
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RECORDED CONVERSATION |
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My Acquaintance with Elder Porphyrios |
203 |
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His Great Love
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205 |
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Preparation for the Wedding |
206 |
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The Healing |
208 |
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The Causes of Sickness |
209 |
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The Straightening of the Nose |
210 |
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Assistance in the Pregnancy |
211 |
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How I was freed from the tumor |
216 |
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The Child is straightened out |
219 |
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Recommendations for Prayer |
220 |
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Healing the Child of a Urinary Tract Infection |
220 |
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How the Child Spoke |
223 |
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Healing of Urticaria |
223 |
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The Second Child is born |
226 |
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Pedagogical Advice |
227 |
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Personal Discussions and Change |
228 |
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How I came to know Elder Porphyrios |
230 |
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He teaches without many words |
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Did you get married? |
233 |
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With Father Paisios |
235 |
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Did We Win? |
236 |
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Spiritually present at the Wedding |
237 |
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Advice for the Married State |
238 |
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After his Falling Asleep |
239 |
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About Anonymity |
239 |
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THE NARRATION OF A MIRACLE |
241 |
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Miraculous Memories from Elder Porphyrios |
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AN AUDIO RECORDING OF A CONVERSATION |
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The Search for the Elder |
247 |
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The First Encounter |
249 |
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Spontaneous Confession |
250 |
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The Diagnosis of a Sickness |
251 |
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Caesarean Section and the Removal of a Tumor |
252 |
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Quickly to the Elder for Help |
253 |
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After Leaving the Hospital |
254 |
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The Complaint and the Explanation |
255 |
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Miraculous Interventions |
256 |
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The Rejection of the Stone from the Kidney |
256 |
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He sees the Property |
257 |
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The Healing of M. |
258 |
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He confesses that it is a miracle |
259 |
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Registering Memories |
260 |
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Pappouli, a Joyous Child |
261 |
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A Place of Divine Power and Prayer |
262 |
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A Suggestion of a Priest, “we should say things that are beneficial.” |
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He sees Ancient Things; He sees them with his soul. |
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Why does the person who is helped want to hurt the person who help them? |
266 |
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Choose a job through which you will help people |
267 |
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Pappouli is close to us even now |
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A FEW OTHER THINGS OF ALL THAT I REMEMBER |
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Daily Experiences of the Gifts of Elder Porphyrios |
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Visiting the Drillings of Kalamo |
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A Meeting at the International Exhibition in Thessaloniki |
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His interest in aromatic fragrances |
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Therapy through fragrances |
275 |
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About Astrology |
276 |
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There is Pulsating Life Around us that we do not see |
277 |
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The Fear of Night |
279 |
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Race Car People are mixed up |
281 |
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Advice which applies to each person differently |
281 |
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Remembrances of a Mother |
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The Acquaintance |
289 |
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The Frankness of the Priest |
289 |
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Counsels and Events |
290 |
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He is joyful with children |
291 |
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He Predicts the Character of the Child |
292 |
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You should caress it before it is born |
293 |
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The Third and Fourth children are born. |
294 |
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You must have your own home |
294 |
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The Healing of our fourth child |
295 |
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The Sixth Child Arrives along with the private home |
296 |
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The Seventh Child |
297 |
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Miraculous Cures |
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THE THYROID OF MRS A. S. |
301 |
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THE HEALING OF INFANT D. |
303 |
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HEALED OF ARTHRITIS |
304 |
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Letters For Elder Porphyrios |
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A LETTER FROM A MONK OF MT. ATHOS |
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A LETTER OF E. G. |
315 |
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In this way I got to know the blessed Elder Porphyrios |
315 |
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First Meeting |
316 |
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A Second Meeting |
317 |
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The Third Meeting |
318 |
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THE LETTER OF DOCTOR A. T. |
321 |
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How I was healed by the Elder prayer |
321 |
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THE LETTER OF THE ECONOMIST H.B. |
326 |
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God’s answer to youthful disbelief |
326 |
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THE LETTER OF H. H. |
332 |
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How I was Healed of Temptation |
332 |
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A LETTER OF K. T. |
336 |
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How the Grandchildren were acquired |
336 |
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THE LETTER OF E. L. |
338
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Like a Farewell |
338 |
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Supplement: Different Circumstances JustifyDifferent Advice |
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Introduction |
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The truth is living and saving |
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a. |
“In order for him to understand clearly I must explain it to him well” |
345 |
b. |
“I have another method” |
346 |
c. |
“There is a time for everything” |
347 |
d. |
“The singular desire of God for each person” |
348
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e. |
“Do not put your trust in people” |
350 |
f. |
“When a jackass kneels it needs to be unburdened” |
351 |
g. |
“To a soldier you give weapons not take them away” |
352 |
h. |
“If you want to become perfect… (Matthew 19:21)” |
353 |
i. |
“Do not judge people based on a few commandments but on the basis of all the commandments” |
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Solutions according to the Church dispensation do not create a canon |
365 |