St. Nektarios in the ordinance of the monastery had designated the nuns to drink a cup of coffee in the morning and one in the afternoon. But in 1941 - 1945 there was no sugar in the market, no coffee.
The Abbess ordered the sisters to drink coffee only in the morning, not in the afternoon, so as not to use it up quickly.
But that night the saint appeared to the Abbess and said strictly:
"Why are you breaking my orders and not giving the sisters coffee this afternoon?"
"But, my dear, there is nowhere to buy it and it's in order not to use up quickly."
"This is my job how it will be found. I want my orders to be fulfilled," he told her.
That very night he was traveling in a boat with coffee and sugar. The captain looks at the saint in his sleep and he says to him:
"In the morning send a sack of sugar and a sack of coffee to Aegina to my home."
In the morning, when he woke up, he asked his crew if anyone was from Aegina. And indeed, there were some. He told them his dream. They then understood immediately that it was St. Nektarios.
"Do you have a picture of him?" he asked them?
They showed him one. The captain recognized this man, when he saw him in his dream. He embraced it.
The next day he got in a car and informed the sisters to go to the beach to pick up food. The sisters went down and amazingly received the coffee and sugar!
From the book "St. Nectarios" by Archim. Haralambos Vasilopoulos
translated by Orthodox Parables and Stories
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