--- product_id: 66055915 title: "Wounded by Love Paperback – March 1, 2005" brand: "elder porphyrios" price: "€ 60.00" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.de/products/66055915-wounded-by-love-paperback-march-1-2005 store_origin: DE region: Germany --- # Wounded by Love Paperback – March 1, 2005 **Brand:** elder porphyrios **Price:** € 60.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wounded by Love Paperback – March 1, 2005 by elder porphyrios - **How much does it cost?** € 60.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.de](https://www.desertcart.de/products/66055915-wounded-by-love-paperback-march-1-2005) ## Best For - elder porphyrios enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elder porphyrios brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Wounded by Love Paperback – March 1, 2005 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51q2pT1M+aL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, edifying, actionable *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024* Some of my favorite Orthodox books have been writings from 20th century monastics & clergy (Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives, Everyday Saints, Father Arseny, &c), and this book certainly joins the ranks. It's heartening to know that theosis is possible even in this increasingly fractured modern age, that people who know of chemotherapy, light-years, & quantum physics can be drawn close to God just as in the desert of the 5th century.As St. Porphyrios was a spiritual father, he has much practical advice written in clear terms, which is invaluable to anyone who desires a life in Christ. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A quiet faith makes the biggest impact *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2010* When you meet this man on the pages of what reads like a memoir put together by friends after his death in 1991, you'll want to hand in all your college degrees and hang instead with sheep herders, grade school dropouts and poets. If shopping for spiritual advisers, after reading this book you may prefer the company of simple and quiet folk who embrace short prayers which arise from a basic divine madness--a divine eros he called it. Love for God. Yes, as to church, you'll lean more toward the company of men and women of the Jesus Prayer or who have no formal spiritual training but have taken in the lessons of life's hard knocks collected by such things as rubbing up against difficult people, poor health and austere surroundings.I spent dozens of hours with this book, number 2 pencil in hand. The brother who suggested I read it must have liked it as well: he read it seven times. Yes, in my copy, no margin of white space has been safe, as now, notes abound. Wounded By Love first appeared in Greek in 2003, two years after this monk and priest died at the seasoned age of 85. The book was arranged by his students in two parts: his life and his sayings. His early father working out of country to support the family, Elder Porphyrios ran away from home to become a monk, trading work at a relative's corner store at age 12 for a life of prayer. He was raised on the holy mountain by two brother monks who, by providence, met him on the boat docks of Mt Athos. Telling a small lie, they broke the rules and were able to successfully sneak the young lad into that monastery in Kavsokalyvia. Dwelling in that small skete his two mentors were strict with this young boy, teaching him obedience and prayer.Elder Porphyrios was the son of dirt poor farmers, an elementary school dropout who with less than two years of formal education in the countryside not far from Athens. He taught himself to read, stumbling over the pages of a little book on the life of St. John the Hut Dweller. He sought to emulate St. John from his youth forward.The second part of the book contains the wisdom, practical sayings and stories related to friends and parishioners who sought the elder out for counsel and confession and friendship. Porphyrios speaks on such topics as: how to love people who get on your nerves, how to acquire humility, how to love Muslims and those of other faiths, ways to manage sleep, how to avoid overeating or what to do about depression, how to pray, how to love God with zeal yet avoid fanaticism, tips on raising kids, how to love your work.No seminary here, this monk was made a priest against his will at the age of 20. Tutored on Mt. Athos, he was eventually sent home against his will once again, this time due to poor health. He served not far from Athens for 33 years as a hospital chaplain and parish priest. He lived and found and taught holiness comfortably in both a quiet monastery and a bustling city.This book was for me a sort of modern day Ladder of Divine Ascent. A couple of my favorite passages include one where he says he wanted so to run away and live with the hippies in Matala, Crete, and show them God's love. And then there's the one where the elder and priest were going door to door with incense, smoke rising; performing Epiphany house blessings. Unwittingly (I wonder about this), he found himself on the steps of a brothel. Fearing nothing, the elder entered, singing chants and blessing the ladies of the evening there as they poured out of their rooms and into the hall, hearing the chants. The elder was met immediately by the Madam, chided by her for what she thought a blessing inappropriate, considering the working girls evidently unworthy of such a blessing. How delightful was the response of Elder Porphyrios, his words and love and counsel and acceptance for those women of the evening, as he encouraged them each to come forward and kiss the cross in his hand. He was no fundy purist.Throughout his life the elder--in recent years canonized a Saint--taught to fret not about evil but to embrace God and others with divine eros. He loved to recite church poetry in the liturgical readings, such as the one where an enraptured young lady would bloody her bare feet, running on rough stones to reach and be near her beloved, caring not for obstacles along her path. No shock he once said, "If you want to become a Christian, you must first become a poet."Gone but a few years now, Elder Porphyrios of the holy mountain has since I first wrote this, become numbered among the canonized saints in the eastern church. And this not because of the many miracles attributed to him, such as an ability to see through mountains, heal the sick or taste water beneath the earth, but the wisdom and grace he acquired living with difficult people and circumstances. I've sent copies of this book to friends and relatives and all three of my kids; one of my top ten favorite books; worth reading and re-reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Strange man *by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2019* This book will take you into a different world, in many senses of the phrase. You'll get a glimpse of a free, careless, more realistic (?) time when children had jobs and could wander around on their own without anyone asking questions, and you'll get a glimpse of Mt. Athos and of human beings who do inhabit another world, inside their hearts.Many things struck me about this very strange, wonderful man, St. Porphyrios. #1) His attitude towards obedience. For a person from my generation, which seems in general to revere defiant and "brave" actions against authority, or at least reveres independence, his attitude and thoughts about obedience made my jaw drop, basically continually. It reminded me of a simpler, purer time when I was very little and which I'd since forgotten ever experiencing, when that sort of complete, pure-hearted obedience was something I DESIRED and thought FEASIBLE, two purities which had since lost hold on me. Reading about his obedience was like getting a slug to my imagination--grown people CAN be like that? And this is what it looks and sounds like? (And it is a DIFFICULT and GOOD thing?) I marveled. #2) Another thing that struck me was his sexual purity. Meeting men, I often feel the slight, vague uneasiness that accompanies the fact that he's a man, I'm a woman, who knows where his thoughts may stray, blah blah. Some men's nasty thoughts lurk plainly in their piggish eyes, to be blunt. But there are men (usually OLD as heck) with whom you can feel completely at ease; they look at you very, very PLAINLY. What do I mean? They do NOT look at you as a sexual being, NO stray thought or desire for the pleasure of your body flickers through their hearts in the slightest, they have NO concern to appear desirable to you; rather they look at you as a human person, without any vanity on their end, and you can sense all this somehow--a rare thing. Porphyrios was one of these men, when he was TWENTY, guys! To me, this is a very precious, incredible thing that made me love him immediately. He saw and felt very clearly what many of us know only by lip service, that the pleasures of the body are vastly smaller than those of the kingdom of God. He knew it because he experienced it, and it kept his heart chaste. So he was able to talk to women as if they were his daughters. Which I was surprised to feel such longing for. #3) Another thing that struck me was St. Porphyrios' stories about extraordinary, miraculous events. Growing up in more charismatic churches, such events were emphasized, used as proof of God, used as credentials of spiritual authority, and so on. Not so for Porphyrios! How modestly, how simply he speaks of these events, almost as if in passing. Do you know what effect his humility and matter-of-factness about these miraculous things had on me? Well, it made me believe him more. I wasn't suspicious about him or his motives. And so it made me feel all the more terrified and awestruck, feelings which a sometimes-spiritually-cynical person as myself does NOT feel very often--terrified and awestruck that this is the world I inhabit, that I don't know anything about it at all, that God is very great, and I'm literally a pea that can't seem to bring herself to believe Him, trust Him, obey Him--gah! What's wrong with me?! But how great God is. #4) St. Porphyrios' emphasis on the enjoyment of God and not forcing yourself through morbid, if well-intentioned self-discipline to do things for your spiritual life which perhaps inadvertently reduce it to a checklist of torture. This really blessed me a lot. He talks about the sweetness of life with God, the joy, the fragrance. He literally ran and leaped for joy, overfull, like King David! And really, this was the experience of reading this book. He is a man close to God, and reading the book was like spending time with him and so with God: an indefinable fragrance permeates it. A loveliness that does not encourage you to strive like a pilgrim driving himself through a dry, hard desert, but one which encourages you to go to Scripture and enter it like a sweet, rich house or garden where God waits for you in glory. I hadn't picked up this book for a while, but I did recently and read just a short bit in which Porphyrios encourages you to savor and delight in Scripture, and just like that the loveliness came to me, and made it impossible for me to continue the resentful, rolling-eye feelings I'd been having towards some people in my life. The hard edge just melted away, irrelevant. I don't know what this loveliness is, though maybe it is what is called the grace of God, or knowing me, a far-off whiff of it, but I'm very thankful. #5) It is easy to love St. Porphyrios from the roots of your heart. This is pretty strange. I don't feel love like that for people, but I LOVED him. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.de/products/66055915-wounded-by-love-paperback-march-1-2005](https://www.desertcart.de/products/66055915-wounded-by-love-paperback-march-1-2005) --- *Product available on Desertcart Germany* *Store origin: DE* *Last updated: 2026-04-25*