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**arerrurrY** · 07-06-2009, 10:37 PM

This is from Rosemary Edmonds' introduction to 'His Life is Mine' by Archimandrite Sophrony. At page 10, she writes of the Elder that during WWII, he 'would spend the night hours prone on the earth floor of his cave [on Mount Athos], imploring God to intervene in the crazy blood-bath. He prayed for those who were being killed, for those who were killing, for all in torment. And he prayed that God would not allow the more evil side to win.' Since I do not think Elder Sophrony would have prayed for the Germans, Japanese and their allies to win, 'the more evil side' was the fascists.

Just because someone writes it, it does not mean that Elder Sophrony has said that phrase (it seems like a game children play "broken telephone"). Our saints are not ignorant to call people 'evil' despite people's immense sins, and Fathers always reiterate that evil is the Evil One. Plus I am sure that Elder Sophrony would not call a lesser evil, Stalin, who would go on afterward to enslave an entire nation to communism and try to destroy Orthodoxy. How less evil is that?

07-06-2009, 10:37 PM	#6
arerrurrY Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 411 Senior Member	This is from Rosemary Edmonds' introduction to 'His Life is Mine' by Archimandrite Sophrony. At page 10, she writes of the Elder that during WWII, he 'would spend the night hours prone on the earth floor of his cave [on Mount Athos], imploring God to intervene in the crazy blood-bath. He prayed for those who were being killed, for those who were killing, for all in torment. And he prayed that God would not allow the more evil side to win.' Since I do not think Elder Sophrony would have prayed for the Germans, Japanese and their allies to win, 'the more evil side' was the fascists. Just because someone writes it, it does not mean that Elder Sophrony has said that phrase (it seems like a game children play "broken telephone"). Our saints are not ignorant to call people 'evil' despite people's immense sins, and Fathers always reiterate that evil is the Evil One. Plus I am sure that Elder Sophrony would not call a lesser evil, Stalin, who would go on afterward to enslave an entire nation to communism and try to destroy Orthodoxy. How less evil is that?
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