Chapter 1. RESETTLEMENT TO MOLDOVA. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BROTHERHOOD IN DRAGOMIRN. STATUTE OF THE BROTHERHOOD. THE TONSURE OF ELDER PAISIUS INTO THE SCHEMA. THE ORDER OF DIVINE SERVICES. THE ORDER OF OBEDIENCES. CELL LIFE OF THE BRETHREN. THE ELDER'S CARE FOR THE SICK. BOOK STUDIES OF THE ELDER: CORRECTION OF SLAVONIC BOOKS ACCORDING TO GREEK ORIGINALS. WINTER STUDIES OF THE ELDER WITH THE BROTHERHOOD. CONVERSATIONS AND EXHORTATIONS OF THE ELDER. DEATH OF FR. VISSARION.

Chapter 2. THE TEACHING OF ELDER PAISIUS ABOUT THE JESUS PRAYER PERFORMED WITH THE MIND IN THE HEART.

Chapter 3. WARTIME DISASTERS AND ELDER PAISIUS' CONCERNS ABOUT REFUGEES. THE TRANSITION OF DRAGOMIRNA TO THE RULE OF THE AUSTRIANS, THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE ELDER AND THE BRETHREN TO SEKUL. LOCATION AND BRIEF HISTORY OF SEKUL MONASTERY. THE LIFE OF THE BROTHERHOOD IN SEKUL. TRANSFER TO NEAMTS. NEAMT MONASTERY AND ITS PAST. THE ELDER'S CONCERN FOR DIVINE SERVICES, FOR THE SICK, FOR THE ELDERLY, AND FOR THE WANDERING. THE LIFE OF THE PAISIUS BROTHERHOOD IN NEAMT. BOOK STUDIES OF ELDER PAISIUS IN THE NEAMT MONASTERY.

Chapter 4. ELDER PAISIOS IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH VARIOUS PERSONS ON VARIOUS ISSUES OF CHRISTIAN FAITH AND LIFE

Chapter 5. THE LAST YEARS OF ELDER PAISIOS' LIFE, HIS DYING ILLNESS AND DEATH, AND HIS GRACE-FILLED GIFTS

PART FIVE. DISCIPLES OF ELDER PAISIOS ON MOUNT ATHOS, IN MOLDAVIA AND IN RUSSIA. THE GROWTH OF ORTHODOX ELDERSHIP IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

INDEX OF LITERATURE ABOUT ELDER PAISIUS VELICHKOVSKY

Appendix 1. INSTRUCTIONS OF ARCHBISHOP RAPHAEL ZABOROVSKY OF KIEV TO PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS OF THE KIEV ACADEMY

Appendix 2. INSTRUCTION FOR MONASTIC TONSURE

Appendix 3. Funeral Lamentation to Elder Paisius from All His Spiritual Children

PREFACE

The Moldavian elder, Archimandrite of the Neamt Monastery in Moldavia, Hieroschemamonk Paisius Velichkovsky, occupies a special place in the history of Orthodox monasticism and the Orthodox Church.

In his person there was an amazing combination of the sanctity of his personal life, his love of education, his remarkable ability to establish a monastic coenobitic brotherhood, his ability to attract and spiritually educate a large host of disciples, to create around him a large school of Orthodox spiritual asceticism, and, finally, a great literary talent that helped him to accomplish an important and necessary task - the correction of old translations and a new translation of patristic ascetic literature.

By his origin and by his activity, Elder Paisios simultaneously belongs to two local Churches - Russian and Moldavian.