Priest Sergiy Tishkun. Ilya Kabanov. “People of the Greek Church”.
Hieromonk Ephimius (Jafarov) tells the story:
Our elder [Archimandrite Parthenius Murelatos] told such a story. As a
young monk, he had the obedience of a forester, lived in the forest.
There is a church, there are cells, and he watched the forest, who cuts
it down, what is taken out. And there he fell into a kind of strange
despondency and negligence, completely stopped praying and reading his
monastic prayer rule. In this state, he spent a whole year.
He once walked and wandered through the woods, returned to his cell and
lay down on the bed disheartened. His eyes fell on the icon of the
Mother of God ... And suddenly it dawned on him, and he prayed with
tears: "Mother of God, help me, I can’t do anything! Help me to overcome
this condition." As soon as he said this, he immediately felt warmth in
his heart and felt a surge of spiritual strength. He said: "I jumped up
and made four hundred bows to the ground at once without concealing
anything. I began to pray, and everything went away at once. The state
of sloth - everything disappeared."
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