Counsels of Elder Justin (Pârvu)

On June 16, 2013, at 10:40 p.m., after several weeks of suffering in terrible pain, which became particularly acute during his final hours of life, Archimandrite Justin (Pârvu) departed this temporary life to the habitations of heaven, to the holy martyrs and confessors he so loved, and with whom he so longed to be united.

Archimandrite Justin (Parvu).

Fr. Justin (Pârvu) was born in the village of Poiana Largului on February 10, 1919; he entered the monastery of Durău in 1936, and in 1939 he enrolled in the Theological Seminary in the Cernica Monastery. He served as a chaplain on the Eastern Front during World War II from 1942-1944, but was imprisoned for political and religious reasons between 1948 and 1964. In 1966 Fr. Justin was received into Secu Monastery, and in 1975 he transferred to Bistrita Monasery. In the autumn of 1991, he placed the foundation stone of Petru Vodă Monastery, where he lived and served as abbot, and in 1999 he began the restoration of a convent for nuns in Paltin.

From the end of March 2013, the stomach cancer that he had secretly suffered for several years metastasized, provoking further medical complications that after martyric torments caused Archimandrite Justin’s departure to a better world. Fr. Justin is considered the last of the Romanian elders of the period of communist repression to depart this world. May God give rest to his soul! 

Counsels of Elder Justin (Pârvu)

Archimandrite Justin (Parvu).

Love the poor and co-suffer with them, so that God may have mercy on you also. 

 

Do not rebuke those who sorrow at heart, that you might not be punished with the same rod, and so that when you begin to seek for one that would have mercy on you, you might not find that there he is not there! 

Remember that you also bear a mortal body, and do good to all without exception. 

Discernment is higher than all other virtues. 

Do not reproach anyone for their sins, but consider yourself responsible for everything, even for your neighbor’s sins. 

It is better to be despised than to despise. It is better to be insulted than to insult another.

Do not live with a proud person, so that your soul would not lose the grace of the Holy Spirit and thus become the habitation of evil passions. 

 

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