Dmitry Lapa
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Kieran in his spiritual labors imitated the feats of the Desert Fathers and especially St. John the Baptist, and, like many of them, he wore animal skins and slept on the ground. Angels were his companions and helpers from childhood throughout his life.
Met. Paul of Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines
In the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian neither poetry nor rhetoric play any part. We are here faced with a pure upsurge of the soul, short, sober and full of ardour.
Fr. John Parker
The season of Great Lent is, to a significant degree, a return to conformity to the likeness of God, a transformation back into a human being. Having lived in the world almost a year since the last Pascha, we fall into the routines and device of what St Paul calls “the old man”. Precisely into those ways enumerated in the Prayer of St Ephraim—the facets from which we ask God to deliver us.