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Resistance on the Holy Mountain

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During the Occupation , Fr. Georgios Ayiopavlitis was a gardener and he was inducted into the Resistance. Together with other monks, he assisted Allied escapees, but was betrayed by a Romanian . He was arrested and taken away to the Pavlou Mela barracks , where he appeared before a military tribunal. The judge asked him: ‘Why are you helping the enemy escape to Smyrna and Egypt?’ ‘Because they’re in need’, he answered. ‘If somebody knocks on your door, what can you do? In the Gospel, Christ tells us to help those in need of assistance’. Holy Monastery of Ayiou Pavlou ‘So, if a German came to you and asked for assistance, you’d help him?’ ‘If he needed it, of course I would. Depending on what ...

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Simplicity and Goodness (Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis)

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Whatever your good side does, make sure your bad side doesn’t get to hear of it. ‘Do not let your left hand know what your right is doing’. ‘Left’ here is the opposite side of us and if it gets to know what’s going on it’ll spoil everything. Our ‘opposite’ is our bad side. Our self in Christ is young, but the other self is old. There’s an art to keeping it from learning things. Art, and above all God’s Grace. There are a few secrets. The Gospel urges us to nip in the bud certain things that are an obstacle to our struggle. For example, you want to taste a moment of joy from God. What’s the secret here? Suppose you ...

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