Elder Cleopa

 

Elder Cleopa (April 10, 1912 – December 2, 1998)

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Once, a Christian lady wanted to meet Elder Cleopa, as she had never seen him. Upon passing by his cell, she bowed and said in her mind: “I kiss your hand, Father”. Right then she heard in her mind the Elder’s voice, saying: “May God’s peace be with you, my daughter”. Then, with a heart [...]
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17 Nov

The Soul’s Journey after Death

 

By Elder Cleopa Brothers, never forget that our soul is immortal. Let me tell you one thing: we are mere strangers and passers-by here on earth. Listen to what the Psalm book says: Unworthy is man on earth and a stranger, just like all his ancestors. Nobody stays in this world. We are not here to [...]
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The Four Laws by which Christ will Judge the World

 

By Elder Cleopa I have said a few words about death. I will now say something about conscience. Whoever will guard his/her conscience clean, will undoubtedly be prepared and happy when death comes. One’s conscience is the just judge that God has placed within us. One’s conscience cannot ever be a mere reflection of matter. [...]
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Father Cleopa Continues to Make Miracles Even After His Death

 

04-14-2004 The tomb of Father Ilie Cleopa, who rests at the Sihăstria Monastery, has become a pilgrimage site. Those who met Father Cleopa during the 64 years he spent only at Sihăstria come and worship at his resting place and say that they feel the blessing and the help of the holy man in achieving [...]
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The Old and the New Calendar

 

About the Old Calendar, Stylists, and Slătioara By Fr. Cleopa The thing that happened once to a priest here, Calistrat Bobu, my God! He was a very good priest. Very good. But one day he dropped by to see a nun who was living in the forest (as at that time there were about fifty [...]
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Elder Cleopa – 1998

My dear Orthodox Christians, Serbians, Greeks, and Bulgarians are brothers to us. They are Orthodox Christians. Who is your Bishop?
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About Prayer (7)

  By Fr. Cleopa But let us pray as we can, as we have seen that the Savior didn’t overlook the Canaanite woman’s prayer. She wasn’t Jewish, she was a Phoenician from around the Tyre and the Sidon. Now, Phoenicians were pagans. Yet she had heard of the Savior and how He worked miracles and came along [to see [...]

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About Prayer (6)

By Fr. Cleopa Therefore, our duty is to pray as we can, however we can, starting with the opening prayers: “Heavenly King…”, “Holy God…”, “All-holy Trinity…”, “Our Father…”, “The Creed” and all the other ones. We should pray as we can, but we should do it often. Because – listen to what the Holy Fathers [...]
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About Prayer (5)

But you will ask me: “What about us, Father, what should we do, most of us who live in the world, who don’t know this technique and philosophy of high prayer? Will our souls be lost for that matter?” No, they won’t! But since the issue of prayer was brought up, I have just shown [...]
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About Prayer (4)

By Fr. Cleopa That is why he will bring text excerpts to your mind – either by the Apostle or from the Gospel, or from the sermons you have heard in Church. You’re sitting and praying and the devil will present to you great and highly spiritual matters. Then you feel a sort of spiritual [...]
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