“Many people have come to me and with prayer and fasting they were healed. But now the Lord doesn’t hear me so that I learn about medicines and doctors and be lenient with others. I also read the letters of St.Nectarios and I saw how much he, such a great saint, paid attention to the doctors and medicines! I am just a poor ascetic who has grown old in the wilderness and I wanted to heal only through faith. But now I, too, and learning that both medicines and grace are necessary.”
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
~My Elder Joseph