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Sep 2022
16m 10s

Saint Paisios and Saint Isaac the Syrian...

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St. Paisios told me: “Read it, little by little, it is so ‘vitamin-rich’ that you cannot read more than two pages and understand them. Then go back, go back and never say ‘I finished St. Isaac’. The end of the perfects is endless. And Saint Isaac the Syrian is one of the perfects, of the great Saints!”

This English translation of the sermon of Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou (Astromeritis, Cyprus, September 27th, 2021) was recorded for otelders (Orthodox Teaching of the Elders) by Peter Eliades. 

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