With the decision of the Protos to repopulate the Xenofontos Monastery, the new monastics led by the Elder Alexios joined the fraternity of the elderly monks who were already living there. The simplicity, piety and dedication to prayer of the elderly monks inspired the new ones. Father Alexios shares an account of an elderly monk's anxiety about the continuation of the monastic life in the Xenofontos Monastery, the providence of the Mother of God, and the arrival of the brotherhood on the day of her feast.