he took resaphor tonsure and was renamed averky.here all the brothers went out, he tried not to interrupt prayers, he worked quickly and silently, in winter he did not light the stove in his cell. on the street in winter , he worked in one cassock, under which, to make it warmer, he wrapped himself in paper. after feats invisible to others, on march 3 , 1957, overki was tonsured and renamed paisiy. after his tonsure, father paisti sent his mother a photograph, on the back of which he wrote the following poem. “my dear mother, i bow to you from my son to become a monk, now leaving the vain world, facing the deceiving enemy, alone in the remote desert, everything out of love for king christ, he sacrificed from now on, worldly sweetness, beauty, alien and unsweetened to me, in love of the savior christ, with all my heart without a trace, i walk with thorny feet along the path of christ, praying on the cross.” so that to meet you in the kingdom of heaven , your love is a living connection, but with my heart rushing to eternal life, i cu