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Saint Paisios of Mount Athos (+1994) is one of the greatest and most revered elders of the Orthodox Church in the 20th Century. He lived the monastic life in obscurity on the Mt Athos, but became a beacon of true life in Christ to faithful throughout the world. 

His OTHER spiritual counsels to the nuns of St John the Theologian (Souroti, Greece) have now been published and translated in 4 volumes; 

1. ELDER PAISIOS OF MOUNT ATHOS – EPISTLES (HARD COVER) – The epistles of St Paisios of Mt Athos published in this edition, even though they were sent to specific recipients, namely, to the Abbess and the Sisters of the Holy Monastery “The Evangelist John the Theologian” in Souroti, by their nature and content possess such universality that every reader can sense that they are also addressed to him. And while at first sight, it seems they pertain to monks or prospective monks, the signifacence and gravity of the subjects to which they refer bestow to these texts an interest and broadness that embrace everyone.
2. ATHONITE FATHERS AND ATHONITE MATTERS – The author, St Paisios, was blessed in being able to associate with many righteous Athonite fathers, “athletes” of Christ, or to hear others tell of them. He was deeply impressed by their holy simplicity, their unshakeable, genuine faith; he was moved by the generosity of spirit in which they struggled; he admired their self-denial unto death and their devotion to the ascetic ideal; he tasted and was sweetened by the honey of their virtues; and, being animated by the same spirit of Christian struggle, he imitated their godly achievements. St. Paisios writies the following about one of the Elders he met. “The Elder’s countenance was luminous; he was enveloped by the grace of God. Just looking at him was enough to make you forget every care; he spread joy with his inner kindness. His external clothing, his patched old habit, was worse than the clothes that gardeners use to make scarecrows to keep the birds away. If anyone happened to give him something good, he gave it at once to someone else.”
3. SAINT ARSENIOS THE CAPPADOCIAN – St. Arsenios the Cappadocian (1840–1924) was the spiritual father of St. Paisios’ family, and he baptised the saint as an infant. Throughout his life St. Paisios had great love and reverence for the memory of St. Arsenios, and it was out of this love that he compiled this book. St. Arsenios pastored his Greek Orthodox flock in the village of Farasa, in Cappadocia, who sought refuge in him, and was their teacher, spiritual father, and the healer of their souls and bodies.
4. ELDER HADJI-GEORGIS THE ATHONITE – St Paisios was not a disciple of Hadji-Georgis nor even a disciple of his disciples, since he lived in a much later era. However, as a young monk searching to find holy Elders,”the fragrant flowers of the Panagia“, as he himself notes, he heard the Athonite monks in the early 1950’s speak with special devotion and admiration about the ascetical struggles of the Elder Hadji-Georgis, who had lived in the previous century. Nevertheless, those of us who knew Father Paisios do not find it difficult to maintain that he was a spiritual descendant of Hadgi-Georgis, not only in the broader meaning as an Athonite monk, but also in the narrower meaning, especially as a struggler, ascetic and faster. He was a monk who until our days preserved the measure and the ascetic rule of Hadji-Georgis.