“Elder, I often take medicines and I feel I am not acting right since you don’t drink even coffee.”
“I’ve told you about this on another occasion. When the Christian surrenders himself to trust in the Lord, it calms the internal organs. The result of this action is the normal functioning of the organs and the glands. As a consequence of this we enjoy good health and the absence of sickness. Because of sin, turmoil and egotism sometimes bring an increase or a decrease of good health with the consequent illnesses. The body knows that which is normal, that which is the middle road for good health. It responds with a sense of calmness and peace. For example, when I had the ulcer the doctor gave me this medicine. He showed it to me. It was Zantac. As soon as I took it, the pains immediately left me. Oh! I said. This is not good for it will have a side effect on some other part of my body. And I didn’t take it again. I preferred to suffer the pain.”
He kept asking me about a brother whom he knew.
“Elder,” I told him, “he can’t sleep at night and he is forced to take sometimes Stedon and other times Tranxen so that he can go to sleep.”
“Tell him to come meet me here or to call me.”
“The Divine Flame Elder Porphyrios Lit to my Heart“
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Πληροφορίες γιὰ τοὺς τίτλους τῶν Ἐκδόσεων τοῦ Ἱεροῦ Ἡσυχαστηρίου μπορεῖτε νὰ βρεῖτε ἐδῶ