alexakarpov @ 2011-02-04T22: 41:00
of this article , compiled by our Metropolitan (Boston) Ephraim, like this story:
one monk was severely overpowered sexual lust. When he had almost despaired of, the demon told him that the obstacle to path to victory is that the monk venerated icons of the Virgin (supposedly the same woman) and that you only stop doing it, and everything will turn out. The monk was troubled and went consult with his spiritual father, but he said he'd rather sleep with all the prostitutes in the brothels of Syria, than to enter into such a transaction.
In article, it was used in the sense that we should not please us to boast ascetic exploits of heretics), although moral of the story is probably a little wider )
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