Conversations with Father Cleopa (package)

”From 1945, when he became a priest and appointed the Staretz of Sihăstria monastery and up to today - for half a century -, All Pious Father Cleopa divided his time between prayer and mission, between quietness and obedience, between loneliness and the guidance of monks and lay people on the path of salvation, between heremetic asceticism and spiritual mission via sermons, the writing of spiritual books, confession, advice and charity. An entire life sacrificed to Christ and the Orthodox church.”

(fragment from Foreword, by Archimandrite Ioanichie Bălan)

”There were two married people, who had only one daughter. The man, the girl's father, was so quiet, so silent, so religious, that people would say that there was no one else like him in his village. But this religious man, poor him, was sick. All his life he had been quite sick. He would go to Church, would not talk evil of anyone, would not lie, would observe all fasting periods, give alms. But he would not talk to anyone. On his way to Church, he would say prayers, and on his way back, as well. He would talk to the Lord. But his wife was totally the opposite.

His wife was asking curious questions about anyone in the village ...”

(fragment from The Choice of Life, de Arhimandrit Cleopa Ilie)