Elder Barsanuphius of Optina akathist she lived in this world

she lived in this world ‘as alive from the dead’ (Cf

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his practical advice on the need for repentance

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Elder Barsanuphius of Optina akathist she lived in this worldElder Barsanuphius (18451913), a disciple of Elder Anatole (Zertsalov) and Elder Nektary, was a highly cultured man and a successful colonel before entering the monastic life at a relatively late age. Due to his purity of heart and spiritual sobriety, he was transformed by God into a grace filled Elder virtually overnight. The period before the first World War and the Russian Revolution was a complex one. The world was seething in unprecedented