“If while praying we don’t feel comfort, something is clearly going on: we must repent and correct it. Some people say that this happens because of the devil’s […]
Tag: Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
Turn the wheel
For everybody that lives in the world, do not despair when you are possessed by many passions, the weight of your sins is extremely heavy, and you feel you […]
Avoid the causes
“Avoid the causes, what triggers sin. For example, if you have diabetes and you are supposed not to eat sweets, how can you stop them if all […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“A person ought to act in accordance with his spiritual state. To do, therefore, things that correspond to the spiritual state in which he finds himself”. (i.e., to not […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“We ought to struggle to uproot the major passions, since by uprooting a big passion, many other small ones are uprooted.” *** “The mind of a selfless person ought […]
Saint Paisios Intervention in Traffic Accidents
One day, a man from Kalamata who lived in Athens was driving to Ioannina, when he was involved in a serious head on collision. His car was literally […]
Sait Paisios’s advice about Jesus prayer and the prayer rope
Geronda … Why should we use the koboskini ( the prayer rope) ?? What is it all about ? The koboskini ( the prayer rope) is a legacy, […]
Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos or Paisios the New, of the Holy Mountain ( 1924 – 1994 ) was canonized on 13 January 2015 by the Holy and Sacred Synod […]
He casts out a Demon
“I had been suffering from a demon since the age of twelve,” recalls a man from Thessaloniki named Evangelos. “My life was torture. After the exorcisms they […]
Elder Paisios and the young addicted people
The Elder and Young people The Orthodox Path is going to publish a few examples of the way the Elder Paisios helped young people. The Elder had a special […]