Saint Paisios: Father, father, father!...translated

Stelios Koukos

On such a day, Saint Paisios seems to become a father, father and father again!

Losing his sanctity, you say?

Anything else! He never loses it, anymore!

However, on the day of his celebration, he opens his big embrace and comes with the big angelic wings he has claimed to embrace all the children, his orphans I would say, those who had him as a refuge and last refuge when he was alive.

Those who fled to him with a deep and unspeakable longing to meet him in his cells in Athos, the Holy Cross of the Holy Monastery of Stavronikita and of Panagouda of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou.

We do not forget, of course, all the women who visited him when he left Mount Athos in the women's Hermitages of "Evangelist John the Theologian" in Souroti-Vassilika Thessaloniki and "Saint John Prodromos" in Metamorfosi in Halkidiki.

In the second Hermitage he was with his spiritual child, the founder and spiritual leader of the Monastery, Pope Gregory, who in those days was even happier and brighter than ever. An Isangel next to the earthly Angel.

The Abbess of the Hermitage of Saint John the Baptist...