True Elders are Hidden

End Times — False Elders

Fr. Seraphim Rose told us that the Optina elders were the last true elders in these end times.  He assured us that there still will be holy people, but that we would not be able to find them.  They help the world by their prayers alone.  I don't remember where it was written — it might have been Fr. Seraphim  — that the prayers of the hidden holy people in the end times will be the only thing that stalls the advent of Antichrist.  One clue to a false elder is that he is not hidden.  There are some pseudo-elders today who don't even try to hide — some have even authored their own books.


EXCERPT ABOUT OPTINA ELDER MOSES

from the book
The Optina Desert and its Era
by Ivan Kontsevich
 page 23 machine translator

     Fr. Archimandrite Moses managed to successfully hide himself from people, which is why during his life many who did not know him closely considered him, although a good, but an ordinary person: only spiritual men, “who judge all things,” according to the word of the Apostle (1 Cor. 2:15), felt the fragrance of Fr. Moses’ virtues and considered him a highly spiritual Elder, who had not spent his life in vain in labors and exploits.
     The words of St. Bishop Niphon were fulfilled in him: “In the last times, those who will truly serve God will safely hide themselves from people and will not perform signs and miracles among them, as at the present time, but they will follow the path of deeds, infused with humility, and in the Kingdom of Heaven, they will be be found greater than the Fathers glorified by signs.” (Varsanuphius the Great, Moscow 1855, p. 654).

https://libking.ru/books/religion-/religion-rel/405311-i-m-kontsevich-optina-pustyn-i-ee-vremya.html

.