Father Porphyry said:
— One day a nun came to see me. Noticing a walnut-sized tumor on her arm, I told her:
Let me show you to the professor (then I served in the temple at the clinic).
— I did not come here to show myself to the professor, but to see you, Geronda.
I blessed her, crossed her hand, and sent her back to the monastery. Soon the tumor cleared.
During the confession of a woman, it was revealed to my heart that she had breast cancer.
— Are you healthy? I ask her. — You got something.
— Yes, Geronda. I am ashamed to talk about my illness.
— Go now to such and such an office, it is here, to such and such a doctor, and ask him on my behalf to examine you, and then come back and tell me about the results.
When she came back, she said she had a cancerous tumor. Doctors sent this woman for examination, and three days later she had to go to surgery.
Then I knelt down, told her to stand by her side, and told her to pray for herself. I also started praying for myself. Then, having overshadowed this woman with the sign of the cross, I, according to the recommendation of the doctors, sent her away for examination.
When she came in for surgery three days later, she was perfectly healthy. The tumor disappeared without a trace.
The doctor, not himself, comes down to my temple and says:
Geronda, what did you do to this woman that she became perfectly healthy? If I hadn’t seen this tumor with my own eyes three days ago and had not felt it with my own hands, I would never have believed she had it.
— My eyes see a lot, the elder finished. — Lots of miracles. The grace of God works according to people’s faith.
Believe that miracles happen in our time. Because Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
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