The Blessed Gerondissa Makrina +1995

Paperback: We need to greatly avoid idle talk because idle talk is like a wildfire, as the holy Fathers say. Just as we have seen entire forests burned down in Penteli and in Kiphisia, and their hills left bare, so does idle talk remove everything good from inside our souls. It distances all that is good from our hearts, and we remain like rusted tin. - Counsel from Blessed Geronda Makrina 

With the printing of this small booklet, it is out desire to bring the Christ-loving and monastic-loving Christians in contact with the person of the Most Reverend and Most longed-for Mother and Grandmother of our sisterhood, the Ever-memorable Gerondissa Makrina (1921-1995), who was the Abbess of the Holy Monastery Panagia Odigitria in Portaria, Volos for thirty-two consecutive years. 

This booklet consists of short excerpts of the life and teachings of the blessed Gerondissa Makrina from the book, Logia Kardias, which was first published in Greek by the Holy Monastery Panagia Odigitria in Portaria, Volos.

It is our good hope that with the help of our Panagia and the Honourable Forerunner, our Monastery will be able to publish the English translation in 2016 with the title, Words of the Heart.

We pray that the acquaintance of pious Christians with the blessed Gerondissa Makrina may be for spiritual edification and support in the personal struggle of each of us on our journey toward the acquisition of the likeness of God.

Gerondissa Efpraxia

St John the Forerunner

Greek Orthodox Monastery

Goldendale, WA