from the back cover ...Christ glorifies (deifies) His saints, and they glorify His Body the Church as His genuine members. One of these godly men is the Athonite Elder Ephraim of Katounakia, who reposed...in 1998. He lived 65 years of strict asceticism on the Holy Mountain (42 of which were as a monk in obedience), far from the world, poor according to the world, but rich in the divine charismata of the Holy Spirit that he had acquired, and was shown to be an obedient disciple filled with spiritual gifts. Indeed, in our contemporary materialistic, rationalistic, and humanistic world, it is difficult to attain to the acquisition of the Holy Spirit--but not impossible...
