About the book: "How can a man feel truly consoled if he does not believe in God and in the true eternal life after death? When we grasp the deeper meaning of the true life, anxiety falls away, and divine consolation comes and we are healed." - Saint Paisios the Athonite
With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man (1996, 2019 2nd Reprint) is the first volume of the inspiring spiritual counsels of Saint Elder Paisios of Mount Athos.
A true ascetic who spent his life cultivating the virtues of humility and love, Elder Paisios always sought to draw people closer to the Kingdom of Heaven.
In these spiritual counsels one sees the living, eternal wisdom of the Church Fathers through the suffering love of a beloved saint and modern guide of souls.
The book is divided into four thematic parts. Each part is subdivided into chapters and every chapter into sections with the appropriate subheadings:
• Part 1 Sin and the Devil
• Part 2 Modern Civilization
• Part 3 The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World
• Part 4 The Church in our Times
With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man is translated from the Greek by Cornelia A Tsakiridou PhD and edited by Maria Spanou PhD in cooperation with the Holy Hesychasterion "Evangelist John the Theologian."
"It is good to have a good brain and go to the moon and spend billions of dollars in fuel expenses and so on. But it is far better to have the spiritual powers that raise man to God, his ultimate destination, with only a bit of fuel, a mere dried piece of bread." - Saint Paisios the Athonite
About the author: The Blessed Elder Paisios was born on 25 July 1924. From the time that he was a child, Elder Paisios lived an ascetic life, and was nourished by the lives of the Saints, whose feats he sought to imitate with great zeal and admirable precision. He practised unceasing prayer, cultivating all along the virtues of humility and love.
He led an ascetic life on Mount Athos, in the Holy Monastery of Stomion in Konitsa, and on Mount Sinai in Egypt. He lived in obscurity, giving himself completely to God, and God in turn revealed him and gave him to the whole world. He guided, consoled, healed and granted peace to multitudes of people who sought him. His sanctified soul overflowed with divine love and his saintly face radiated the divine Grace. All day long, he tirelessly gathered the human pain and imparted divine consolation.
He is the founder of the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Souroti of Thessalonik, Greece, which he also guided spiritually for twenty-eight years (1967-1994). After suffering excruciating pains, which, as he used to say, benefited him more than the ascetic struggles of his entire life, he fell asleep in the Lord on 12 July 1994.
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