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Three Wonderworking Saints Of Our Time

Three Wonderworking Saints Of Our Time

Bored teenagers get excited about the faith with stories of spiritual superheroes

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Jan 18, 2023
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St. Paisios, a wonderworking elder of Mount Athos

Had a great phone conversation tonight with an Orthodox friend back in the US. He was telling me about teaching Sunday school to teenagers in his parish in a highly secular part of the country. He told me that teaching doctrine and morality to the kids did not move them. What opened the doors of their min…

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