Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia Quotes

1906–1991 Greece

Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia (also known as Porphyrios Bairaktaris, 7 February 1906 – 2 December 1991) was a Greek Eastern Orthodox monk and Saint who lived on Mount Athos.

Greece

Also known as: Elder Porphyrios, Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia, Porphyrios Bairaktaris

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For the people of God there is no such thing as distance, even if they be thousands of miles apart. However far away our fellow human beings may be, we must stand by them.

From the moment I became a monk I believed that death does not exist. That’s how I felt and how I always feel – that I am eternal and immortal. How magnificent!

Pray without forming images in your mind. Don’t try to imagine Christ. The Fathers emphasized the need for prayer to be free of images. With an image, the focus of prayer is easily lost, because one image can easily be displaced by another. And the evil one may intrude images and we lose the grace.

In prayer what is important is not the duration but the intensity. Pray albeit for five minutes, but abandoning yourself to God with love and longing. One person may pray all night long and another person only for five minutes and yet the five-minute prayer may be superior. This is a mysterious matter, of course, but that’s the way it is.

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