Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of deep prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. "In you, o venerable Father Paul, the image of God shone forth, for you carried your Cross and followed Christ. By so doing you taught us to disregard the flesh for it passes away, and to care instead for the soul since it is immortal, wherefore your soul forever rejoices with the angels" (Troparion — Tone 8). An icon of

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"1. Blessed Abba Paul the Simple, the disciple of Abba Anthony, told the Fathers that which follows: "One day he went to a monastery to visit it and to make himself useful to the brethren. After the customary conference, the brothers entered the holy church of God to perform the synaxis there, as usual. Blessed Paul looked fully at each of those who entered the church observing the spiritual disposition with which they went to the synaxis, for he had received the grace from t