Cristian Curte
Fr. Paisie is quite elderly now, but it seems he’s been this way since the beginning of time, as if he was born with gray temples and a white beard—exactly how every good spiritual father should be.
He received anyone who knocked on the door of his cell—always, at any time. He would hear confessions without stopping, for several days in a row, day and night. No one knew when he slept or ate.
Ketevan Bekauri
For a very long time—almost half an hour—he enumerated the most delicious meat dishes. Meanwhile, his words whetted my appetite.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
I ask everyone not to dance to someone’s pipe, not to be pharisees, to not give our enemies yet another excuse to mock our Mother-Church.
Priest Alexei Taakh
The “head of the family” isn’t simply a fine phrase. A family in Orthodoxy is often called a small church. Also, in the Sacrament of Matrimony, the husband and future father becomes the rector of this small church.
