While he was always charitable towards others, Father Arsenios was very hard on himself, and, out of his great love, made prostrations and fasted for others, who were unable to do so themselves. As a spiritual Father, he did not usually impose a canon on people, but would simply try to bring them to the point of awareness, so out of philotimo, they themselves would ask to do some ascetic act (of prayer, prostrations, fasting,) or charity work or whatever kind of good deed they felt moved to perform. Whenever he saw a small child possessed or paralysed and determined that the parents were the cause, he would give the parents a canon, once he had cured their child. On one occasion, ...
