The monks had to complete the service regardless of the shells flying at them, even if it meant their death. So they prayed like the first Christians in the catacombs as the tanks kept shelling the church.
Marina Biryukova
For me there is no doubt that faith in the crucified Christ is invincible and that the alleged triumph of materialism is a temporary phenomenon.
We are constantly in Matthew a struggle; and as the Holy Scriptures say, it is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Metropolitan Paul of Sisanion and Siatista
Elder Iakovos was a man of God, literally a man who belonged to God, and also a man who had God.
Fr. Iakovos’ life was full of such cases, which for him were simple in the sense of trust and prayer to God, through which miracles happened. It would require many books to describe these interventions and miracles.
