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The ‘Fool’ and the Clever Ones (Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis †)

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It often happens that the internal beauty of the life of repentance and the staunch battle against sin and the passions are not immediately obvious. One such instance was the case of the nun Isidora, who lived in a monastery in Egypt and whose story we read in the Lavsaïkon (Lausaic History)*. Isidora loved humility and simplicity and tried to live in obscurity, as far as this was possible. Alas, as often happens, the more she tried to be humble, the more the reprobates of this world saw her as a tool of exploitation. They found her laughable. The magnificence of internal and spiritual beauty depends on the extent to which you’re able to bear up under the mockery of others. Of ...

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