The Elder told a young couple that visited him, “Because you two don’t love each other, the child you will have, will have problems.” The Elder’s prophecy came true, as events showed. The Elder, of course, did not consider it a prophecy, but the deterministic relation between two factors (lack of love between husband and wife -problematic character of the child.) The Elder proved in practice the validity of the educational theory that a child’s development starts from the moment of conception.
With Elder Porphyrios: A spiritual child remembers - (Yiannitsiotis)
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Πληροφορίες γιὰ τοὺς τίτλους τῶν Ἐκδόσεων τοῦ Ἱεροῦ Ἡσυχαστηρίου μπορεῖτε νὰ βρεῖτε ἐδῶ
Aghios Porphyrios used to say that since the conception of a new life, the baby inside the mother’s womb absorbs all things that happen and have to do with the life of the mother. The sins, the thoughts, the spirituality and whatever she does, thinks, looks at listens to. This is why he used to advise all mothers to try to live a life like a Saint in order to give to the child the utmost through the grace of the Holy Spirit.