Words of the Heart akathist had been sorely put to

had been sorely put to the test

and exercising his heart in the commandments of love for God and neighbor

Due to Communist persecution he was compelled to leave Glinsk

Author:Mark the Monk

Words of the Heart akathist had been sorely put toThis book contains the homilies as well as the wonderous life of the Abbess of blessed memory, the venerable Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou. The venerable Makrina was blessed. All who read her discourses with prayer will sense the fragrance of Gerondissas prayer, the scent of the desert of Mt. Athos as it was experienced in a coenobitic monastery, the spiritual life of this true child of true hesychast fathers, and true mother of blessed nuns.