When you live for Christ, you lose nothing — you gain everything: Monk Gerasim the Prodromite, 5 years after moving to the Lordtranslated

Thursday marks five years since the passing of a father who left early to eternal life: Monk Gherasim Prodromitul (Mariș).

Born on January 2, 1979 in Sighetu Marmației, he received the name Gavrila at baptism, growing up in Dragomirești, Maramureș county, where he would kneel at only 12 years old in the locality's "St. Ilie" Monastery.

Thus, he would say with full knowledge later:

"Youth is the period of most joy, beauty, and intelligence; if you give it to God, you are like the angels. When you live for Christ, you lose nothing—you gain everything."

Studies and activity in St. Munte He graduated in Theology at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 2003, followed his master's studies, including at the "Aristotel" University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and on September 8, 2005 he became a brother at the Prodromu Romanian Hermitage in Holy Mount Athos.

He was ordained a monk in 2012, together with the monastic name of Gerasim.

At the Prodromu Hermitage he fulfilled several duties: secretary, librarian, editor and translator. In the period 2009-2010 he translated into Greek the book Culture of the Spirit by the hieromonk Rafail...