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‘Now you must be thinking, from what I’ve told you, that – well, I don’t know – I’m quite something. Well, I’m nothing, although I do try and am just beginning, it seems, to get a taste of the things that I talk about. I try to, I want to, and I actually do feel love for others, although I don’t want to force myself. But very often I experience these things through God’s Grace and do not speak. I’m not allowed to. I say whatever I’m allowed to say but I cannot always speak. Well, life without Christ is not worth living. There’s no doubt about that.’ Elder Porphyrios was born in 1906 in the village of Agios Ioannis ...