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The Feasts of the Lord: An Introduction to the twelve feasts and Orthodox Christology

CHAPTER 3: THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST

Written by: Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos

Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery - Levadia, Greece.

Translated into English by: Ester Williams

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Part 2

This is the first volume of the series 'Spiritual Counsels of the Elder Paisios of Mount Athos'. It is divided into four thematic parts. Each part is subdivided into chapters and every chapter into sections with the approprite subheadings; Part 1 Sin and the Devil Part 2 Modern Civilization Part 3 The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World Part 4 The Church in our Times The Blessed Elder Paisios was born on 25th July 1924. From the time that he was a child, Elder Paisios lived an ascetic life, and was nourished by the lives of the Saints, whose feats he sought to imitate with great zeal and admirable precision. He practised unceasing prayer, cultivating all along the virtues of humility and love. He led an ascetic life on Mount Athos, in the Holy Monastery of Stomion in Konitsa, and on Mount Sinai in Egypt. He lived in obscurity, giving himself completely to God, and God in turn revealed him and gave him to the whole world. He guided, consoled, healed and granted peace to multitudes of people who sought him. His sanctified soul overflowed with divine love and his saintly face radiated the divine Grace. All day long, he tirelessly gathered the human pain and imparted divine consolation. He is the founder of the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Souroti of Thessalonik, Greece, which he also guided spiritually for twenty-eight years (1967-1994). After suffering excruciating pains, which, as he used to say, benefited him more than the ascetic struggles of his entire life, he fell asleep in the Lord on 12 July 1994.

Published & translated into English from the Greek original by the Holy & Great Monastery of VATOPEIDI, Mt. Athos.

• Complete narration Chapters 1 - 6, epilogue, recording of Saint Ephraim of Katounakia saying the Jesus Prayer

Part 4

Dedicated to the Venerable Personalities who lived Orthodox Monasticism on the rugged harsh rocks of our island.

Written by: Agnes Maglis, Abbess; Euseveia Kassiotou, nun.

Published by: THE HOLY MONASTERY "PANAGHIA ELEOUSA" ROTSO-KALYMNOS year 2000.

Translated by: Father Nicholas Palis

Revision of the English translation: Mrs. Anastasia A. Koutoulakis, Fr. Nicholas Samaras and Anges Manglis, Gerontissa

On Reverence and Love of the Elder

On Remembrance of Death

On Passions

On Carnal Warfare

On Anger

On Warfare with the Demons

On Spiritual Struggle

On Cowardice and Negligence

On Forcefulness, Courage, and Self-Denial

The Science of Spiritual Medicine (Part 1) - Orthodox Psychotherapy in Action

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Part 3

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CONTENTS of EPISODE: (Part 2 of 2)

Everyday Life – Pastoral Ministry 1. Elder Sophrony in Everyday Life a) Welcome b) Divine Liturgy – Prayer c) Refectory d) Hospitality e) Love for People f) Discussion – Confession g) Visits h) Love for Nature i) Sense of Humour j) Taking Leave 2. Theologian and Shepherd  1976  1977  1978  1979  1980  1981  1982  1983  1984  1985  1988  1991 3. Various Words of the Elder In Conclusion Encomium by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos Appendix Timeless Relevance 1. ‘The Elder of the Monastery’ 2. ‘Living Theology’ 3. ‘Elder Sophrony’s Personal Participation in the Mystery of the Cross’ 4. ‘On Prayer – The New Book by Archimandrite Sophrony’ 5. ‘From the Morning Watch until the Night’ 6. ‘The Theology of Elder Sophrony’ 7. ‘The Chariot and Horseman of the Israel of Grace’ 8. ‘Elder Sophrony’ 9. ‘The Person as Truth in the Teaching of Elder Sophrony’

PART 2 of 3

Original Greek published by the Holy Monastery Panagia - Odigitria - Portaria, Volos, Greece.

English translation published by St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery - Goldendale, WA, USA.

Part 6

Table of Contents for episode to follow

AN ATHONITE GERONTIKON (Part 3): Sayings of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos

Knowledge - Vision (Theoria) of God

On the connection between Theoria and Praxis

Conclusion

Orthodox Christianity as a Healing Science

What Therapy Is?

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AN ATHONITE GERONTIKON: Sayings of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos. Written by: Archimandrite Ioannikios (Kotsonis). Publication of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas, Kouphalia - Thessaloniki - Greece. 1997

PART 2:

• Beginning with Chapter 5, continued: Averkios the rassophore monk
• Ending with Chapter 8: The God-Trodden Mount Sinai

(Part 3 of 4)

Translated into English and published by:

Orthodox Kypseli Publications - Thessaloncia, Greece

• What is the work of a prudent government?
• The impiety of people has reached a high point
• Repentance is the only means of salvation
• Remain firm in the Orthodox Faith
• Be careful that you not be deceived
• A Christian is in constant battle
• Not the place, but the manner saves
• The judgements of God are an abyss
• Concerning the calendar
• Be careful do not get frustrated but thank God
• No one cowardly in battle
• The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force
• Concerning the separation of the soul
• Wicked days
• Strive to be light
• Chase the demon of despair far away
• O Woe to us!

(Excerpt) “The Ease of Violence and the Violence of Ease”

Archimandrite Aimilianos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras

Spiritual Instruction and Discourses - Vol. I

The Authentic Seal

Ormylia Publishing 1999

Holy Cenobium of the Annunciation of the Mother of God

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This profound book written in 1851 and preserved in the library of our Sacred Monastery of Saint Xenophon represents the fruit of holy and spiritual revelations, painful struggles, and divine experiences and ascents of this humble, unknown ascetic of the Holy Mountain.

-Very Rev. Archimandrite Alexios, Abbot of St Xenophon, Mount Athos

The Subjective Conditions of Healing and Health

The Will to be Healed

The Remedy of Faith

The Remedy of Prayer

Prayer's role and it's therapeutic effects

The method of hesychastic prayer

The Remedy of the Commandments

The Remedy of Hope

The Process of Healing - Inner Conversion

The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian

Written by: Niketas Stetatos

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

Harvard University Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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The Life was written more than thirty years after Symeon’s death by his disciple and apologist the theologian Niketas Stethatos, who also edited all of Symeon’s spiritual writings. An unusually valuable piece of Byzantine hagiography, it not only presents compelling descriptions of Symeon’s visions, mystical inspiration, and role as a monastic founder, but also provides vivid glimpses into the often bitter and unpleasantly conflicted politics of monasticism and the construction of sanctity and orthodoxy at the zenith of the medieval Byzantine Empire. Although the many volumes of Symeon’s spiritual writings are now readily available in English, the present translation makes the Life accessible to English readers for the first time. It is based on an authoritative edition of the Greek.

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Saint Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education consisted of two winters at the village school. But on Mt Athos, rooted in a tradition reaching back to the very beginnings of Christian monasticism, he was taught of God and attained wisdom and spiritual maturity akin to that of the Desert Fathers.

CONTENTS:

1. Of the Knowledge of God
2. On Love
3. The Soul’s Yearning for God
4. Adam’s Lament
5. On the Mother of God and the Saints
6. We are God’s children—we are in the likeness of the Lord
7. On the Will of God and on Freedom
8. On Prayer
9. On Humility
10. Concerning Peace and Grace
11. Spiritual Warfare
12. Thoughts on departing from this life

Pathology of Desire and Pleasure

Pathology of Aggressiveness

Pathology of Freedom

Pathology of Memory

Pathology of Imagination

Pathology of the Senses and Bodily Functions

Surrounded by the tranquil Mediterranean countryside of the Holy Mountain, the ascetics of Mount Athos struggle in unseen warfare to achieve a state of inner silence and purity. The only monastic republic in the world, Mount Athos has been inhabited solely by monks for more than a thousand years, setting the tone of Orthodox Christian spirituality worldwide and producing a continuous stream of saints.

Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos describes the lives and the spiritual images of ten Athonite Elders of recent centuries, who, although differing greatly from each other in their backgrounds, characters and ways of life, all bear the evident seal of the presence of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, testifying to a troubled world that the purpose of man s existence is union with God.

The author, Archimandrite Cherubim Karambelas ( 1979), lived on Mount Athos in his youth, and searched out firsthand sources and living witnesses for his information on these Elders. In Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, the most exalted teachings on asceticism and the vision of God are seen practically applied in the persons of these new luminaries, stars in our midst.

+Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, continued...

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The Throne of God

We Have Found Paradise

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Against his will and at a very young age, young George finds himself in Tibet, "dedicated" to a Buddhist monastery by his grandfather. After fourteen years of devotion to the black arts and worshipping Satan, he finds himself on Mount Athos at age 16, where with the help of Saint Paisius, George learns to confront the forces of darkness with the power of Christ the Light.

Part 2

On Thoughts, Fantasies, and Distraction

On Prayer and Watchfulness

On Prayer of the Nous and Heart

On Watchfulness and Noetic Prayer

The Art of Prayer

On the Practical Method of Noetic Prayer

The Path to Unceasing Prayer

Patristic Counsels on Prayer

Anthology on Noetic Prayer

From the Prologue:

"With the help of God, and after the work of a great many years, our Sisterhood, propelled by our sacred obligation toward the Saint, who for twenty-eight years had guided and benefited us in so many ways, presents the publication of the Biography of Saint Paisios the Athonite.
We also had the great blessing of gaining some insight into the immeasurable love the Saint had for God, his monastic exactitude, his absolute self-denial and the power of his fervent prayer. Having lived in such close proximity to him, we personally experienced his holy simplicity and his profound humility, his God-illuminated discernment, his noble love for each person, but also his deliberate efforts to conceal his virtues.
We therefore deemed it our obligation to utilize all the materials - both information and knowledge bequeathed to us in order to compose, to the best of our ability, the biography of the saintly Elder. The contents of this Synaxarion stem primarily from our communication with the Saint - from the notes we had kept during the gatherings of the Sisterhood and the private conversations we had had with him; from his letters not only to the entire Sisterhood but also to each Sister; from the numerous verbal and written testimonies which had been entrusted to us by clergy, monks and lay-people who had met the Elder' as well as from information that had been gathered from the on-site research we had conducted in some of the areas where the elder had lived and struggled.

From the Contents:
- Prologue-
- Chapter One: From Pharasa to Homeland of Greece
- Chapter Two: The Years of his Childhood and Youth
- Chapter Three: Military Service
- Chapter Four: Preparations and Temptations
- Chapter Five: At the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou
- Chapter Six: At the Holy Monastery of Philotheou
- Chapter Seven: At the Holy Monastery of Stomion
- Chapter Eight: At God-trodden Mount Sinai
- Chapter Nine: At the Skete of Iveron of Saint John the Forerunner
- Chapter Ten: At Desolate Katounakia
- Chapter Eleven: At the Kelli of the Precious Cross
- Chapter Twelve: At the Kelli of Panagouda
- Chapter Thirteen: From Earth to Heaven

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Translated and Edited by the Sisterhood of the St. John Chrysostomos Monastery, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, USA 2021.

ISBN: 978-1-7374381-0-6

“Hermits of Karoulia” (pages 179-195)

From: Anchored in God: An Inside Account of Life, Art, and Thought on the Holy Mountain of Athos

Written by: Constantine Cavarnos

Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Belmont, Massachusetts 1975, 2020 (Second Printing)

This work is a deeply personal account of one holy man's unique journey in the life of unceasing noetic prayer, perpetual metanoia, praxis, purification of the heart from evil thoughts, illumination of the mind/nous, and theoria/vision. Separated into "Discourses", it touches on many aspects of the spiritual and ascetic life, particularly the hesychastic themes of watchfulness, spiritual warfare, and prayer of the heart. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear. The human heart is to be crushed and softened through the unceasing remembrance of God through His Name.

PART 1 of 3

"I do not have eloquent speech... but these humble words that I say to you, I say from my heart."
Original Greek published by the Holy Monastery Panagia - Odigitria - Portaria, Volos.

English translation published by St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery - Goldendale, WA

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Published by: Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery - Florence, Arizona.

Book available to purchase at: https://stanthonysmonastery.org/products/the-departure-of-the-soul-readers-edition

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9:27)

DEATH MUST FIND US READY. THE SAINTS WILL HELP US TO BE PREPARED.

What happens to our soul at the hour of its departure from this world? What is waiting for us in the next life? Are we ready for the final journey to the meeting with God?

The most certain thing in life is death. And yet so few have sure knowledge of what happens at that hour, the most critical hour of our existence. The reader's edition of The Departure of the Soul includes the most vivid and gripping accounts from the comprehensive 1,112-page master reference edition—accounts of the departure of the soul as revealed by God to His saints. They experienced the mystery, they saw the departure, and they returned from that awesome spectacle to teach us how to be prepared.

IMPLIMENTATION OF THERAPY

The Twofold Movement of Inner Conversion: Praxis

Outline of the Therapy of the Fundamental Faculties of the Soul

Implementation of the Generic Virtues

Temperance

Courage

Prudence

The Therapeutic Role of the Spiritual Father

The Manifestation of Thoughts

The Elder Ieronymos of Aegina, written by Peter Botsis

• Translated & Published from the Greek original by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Boston, MA 2007

Theology as Charisma and Experience, continued

a) St John the Theologian and Evangelist

b) St Gregory the Theologian

c) St Symeon the New Theologian

d) St Gregory Palamas

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 Progress in Prayer

Q2 The Worldwide Influence of Russian Theologians

Q3 Curing Human Beings

Q4 Noetic Prayer and Evagrius of Pontus

Q5 The Method of Hypnotism and Orthodox

Psychotherapy

Q6 Obedience to the Spiritual Father

Q7 Monasticism and Marriage in Relation to Deification

Q8 Holy Communion and Confession

Q9 Holy Communion and Holy Relics

Q10 The Possibility of Baptism in the Mother’s Womb

Q11 Birth Control

Q12 The Relationship between the Divine Liturgy and the

Jesus Prayer

Q13 Theology and Philosophy

Q14 Discerning between Thoughts

Q15 Sorrow and Depression

Part 3 - Romania

1. The Hesychastic Life according to St Basil the Great

1. Correspondence with St Gregory the Theologian

2. Sacred Hesychia and God’s Temple

a) Wandering

b) Leaving the World

c) Life in the Wilderness

d) Prayer and Reading

e) Hesychia

f ) Nous and Theoria

g) Temple of the All-Holy Spirit

h) Transformation of the Whole of Life

3. Hesychast and Celebrant

Epilogue

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Link between Hesychastic Experience and the

Divine Eucharist

Q2 Theoria of the Divine Light

Statement on the Television Station of the Patriarchate of

Romania

The International Conference on St Basil the Great

2. Bringing Up Children Today

1. Children are God’s Gift

2. Bringing up Children in the Church

3. Children as Equal Members of the Church

4. Difficulties connected with the Development and

Upbringing of Children Today

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Hour of Death

Q2 Sickness of the Nous

Q3 Noetic Prayer

Q4 Holy Communion and Confession

Q5 Homeopathy

Q6 Children in the Church

Q7 Choosing Someone to Care for Children

Q8 Dialogues between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox

Q9 Children Facing Death

Q10 Children and Church Attendance

Q11 Religious Education in School

Q12 Demonic Attacks on Children

Q13 Psychological Disturbance

Q14 Unloved Children

3. Interview - The Theology of St Gregory Palamas and the

Scholasticism of Barlaam

Q1 The Historical Context of the Life of St Gregory

Palamas

Q2 Influence of the Holy Mountain on his Life

Q3 Effect of his Conflict with Barlaam

Q4 Popular Interest in Theological Issues

Q5 Summary of St Gregory Palamas’s Teaching

Q6 Knowledge of God

Q7 Patristic Teaching as the Basis of St Gregory Palamas’s

Teaching

Q8 Consequences of the Church’s Victory through St

Gregory Palamas

Q9 The Message of St Gregory Palamas for our Era

4. Interview - Therapy and Truth

Part 4 - Georgia

1. About Orthodox Psychotherapy

1. Why the Book was written

2. The Book’s Title and Subtitle

3. Discussions about the Subject Matter of the Book

4. Orthodox Psychotherapy from the Psychological Point of View

5. Basic Elements of Orthodox Therapeutic Treatment

Discussion after the Talk

Part 5 - St Paissy Velichkovsky

St Paissy Velichkovsky – A Great Hesychast Father

1. His Path to Monasticism

2. Searching for and Translating the Writings of Hesychast

Fathers

3. Spiritual Guide to Hundreds and Thousands of Monks

4. Experiencing Hesychastic Monasticism

5. His Saintly Decease

6. The ‘Philokalic’ Movement in the Orthodox World

Conclusion

Published by: The Holy Convent of the Evangelist John the Theologian, Souroti, Thessalonica, Greece.

Contents:

• Father Tychon
• Elder Evlogios (the Disciple of Hadji-Georgis)
• Elder Pachomios (the Disciple of Elder Evlogios and Grandson of Hadji-Georgis)
• Father Seraphim, the Anchorite of Mt. Athos
• The Unknown Anchorite (Probably One of the Anchorites of Athos Who Live Invisibly
• Hieromonk Anthimos, the Fool-for-Christ
• The Prodigious Father Daniel
• Elder Cosmas from Holy Monastery of Pantocrator (the Wine Grower)
• Father Philaret, the Abbot of Holy Monastery of Constamonitou
• Elder Peter (Petrakis)
• Elder Augustine
• Father George, the Anchorite
• Elder Philaret
• Elder Ephraim "The Wretch"
• Elder Constantine, the Fool-for-Christ
• Father Savvas of the Monastery of Esphigmenou
• Elder Tryphon
• Father Cyril, the Ascetic and Abbot of the Holy Monastery Koutloumousiou
• The Hieromonk who was tormented by the Tempter because of a Prideful Thought
• The Strong-Willed Disciple
• The Devout and Obedient Disciple
• The Value of a Monk
• The Power of a Monk's Prayer
• The Power of the Komboschini (Prayer rope), of the Jesus Prayer

In 1983 a complete manuscript of the second part of The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, hitherto only partially known, was discovered in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Chapters 4-41 of these new texts are edited and translated here for the first time by Sebastian Brock.

Series Title: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

Publisher: Peeters

Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008
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HYPOTHESIS 11: How, after death, souls are assigned to the same place as those souls which lived in a similar way on earth.
HYPOTHESIS 12: God-loving parents should rejoice and be thankful for the trials and temptations that their children endure for the sake of the Lord. As well, parents who love God should exhort their children to struggle and to risk all for the sake of virtue.
HYPOTHESIS 13: How one renouncing the world should go to a remote place; what constitutes a remote place and what benefit derives from it; and what places are most appropriate for living out the ascetic life.
HYPOTHESIS 14: From whence the fear and love of God are first engendered in man and to what extent he is obliged to fear and love God.
HYPOTHESIS 15: It is essential for those who have abandoned the world not to communicate with their relatives according to the flesh or to nurture the slightest interest in them.
HYPOTHESIS 16: We must love our relatives in the flesh equally with our other brothers, as long as our relatives lead a similar kind of life; if, however they conduct themselves in a way discordant with that of our brothers, we must avoid them as harmful.
HYPOTHESIS 17: How we who becomes a monk must bare himself of all things, and how he must dispose of everything which belongs to him. That the existence of personal property for a monk in a coenobitic monastery is clearly disastrous.
HYPOTHESIS 18: It is necessary for one who wishes to be saved to seek the company of virtuous people and, as a thing much beneficial, to question them with exceeding desire and flaming zeal, so as to learn from all those things which are essential for the salvation of the soul.
HYPOTHESIS 19: Regarding the necessity of obedience: what benefits arise from it and how a man accomplishes it.
HYPOTHESIS 20: That one should not trust in himself in anything, but should heed the advice of the Fathers in all things and should clearly confess the secrets of his heart without hiding anything.

"I do not have eloquent speech... but these humble words that I say to you, I say from my heart."

Complete and unabridged Homilies 1 - 65

• Original Greek published by the Holy Monastery Panagia - Odigitria, Portaria Volos
• English translation published by St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery - Goldendale, WA

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Saint Porphyrios the Prophet - Witnesses - Volume 2

   Many of the miraculous events with regard to Saint Porphyrios remain, to this day -possibly forever- unknown, the same as his great struggles, which he diligently kept secret. This book is just one more piece added to a mystical mosaic that will be revealed to us long after.
    Saint Porphyrios is a unique presence in the history of our Church, not only due to his exceptional charismata -gifts of grace- his hidden ascesis and his vast agape but also due to the orifinality of his teachings. He demonstrated that Christ is our friend, our brother, dispersing the fear of punishment ad hell, He advises us to eschew passions, to pay no attention to our bad side and, instead, give ourselves with wholehearted zeal to the love of Christ. In this manner, he guides us towards unbloody sanctification, by demonstrating a way of ascesis born out of love and gratitude to God.
    We tend to enjoy the fruits and forget about the care and the effort that goes into growing the tree. We enjoy the Saint's grace, with no appreciation for the labor and the sacrifices necessary to reach such heights, and most of all, to remain for seventy years a steadfast, luminous, warm sun. A sun that shone down from Athos and illumined the horizon. It is truly impossible to shed light on the entirety of the Saint's spiritual toil; the task feels as if you lit a candle and hoped to illuminate a planet. This book is such a candle... (From the prologue of the book)

Sixteenth Letter

Seventeenth Letter

Eighteenth Lette

Nineteenth Letter

HOMILIES 41 - 77 (Part 3 of 3)

Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, Massachusetts

Dispassion (Impassibility)

Charity: the spiritual love for oneself, love for one's neighbours, The love of God

Knowledge

THE LIFE OF ELDER GERASIM MENAGIAS of blessed memory. Narrated from "Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, Volume 2"

Thirty-ninth Letter

Fortieth Letter

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Archimandrite Vasileios, Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos

Selected Writings, Vol. 3: Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology - pages 221-231

Alexander Press/Sebastian Press 2022

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Archimandrite Vasileios, former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos

Selected Writings, Vol. 3 - Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology (Alexander Press 2022)

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The Feasts of the Lord: An Introduction to the twelve feasts and Orthodox Christology

CHAPTER 2: THE NATIVITY

Written by: Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierothoes

Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece.

Translated into English by: Ester Williams

First Edition 2003

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St Gregory Palamas as a Hagiorite

The book St Gregory Palamas as a Hagiorite covers the life, work and teaching of St Gregory Palamas and relates them to his identity as a monk of the Holy Mountain.

Having first acquired personal knowledge of God, St Gregory Palamas subsequently became an unerring theologian, preacher and teacher of the theology of the uncreated Light, as well as of social justice through practicing Christ’s commandments. Involved in a major controversy with representatives of a legalistic, anti-hesychastic tradition originating from the West, St Gregory Palamas proved that prayer of the nous in the heart and the vision of the uncreated Light is part of the tradition of the Church.

The teaching of St Gregory Palamas has made an inestimable contribution to Orthodoxy and is very relevant to our times.

An Interpretation of the Divine Liturgy Based on Actual Events and Experiences of Holy Priests, Monks and Lay People (Piraeus, Greece, 2008)

"It is a fact that numerous interpretations of the Divine Liturgy which were mainly based on the enlightenment and Grace of the Holy Spirit, were handed on to us by the Church Fathers. What makes this current analysis of my spiritual child Fr Stephanos Anagnostopoulos, of the Divine Liturgy noteworthy as well as beneficial, is the fact that it is offered through the experiences and revelations of worthy Liturgists of the Most High, older and more recent ones.
I, as well as its author, wish that this book will lead us all to the genuine liturgical conscience and life in order to urge us in a spirited way, as grateful servants to try to rest the heart of His feelings so that He will be comforted, according to the Psalter: ‘. . . and because of His servants shall He be comforted’ (Ps. 134:14). May we sense that which God offered us and thus rejoice in the beauty of His eros. Amen. (p. 11)" - Saint Ephraim of Philotheou & Arizona

The Uncreated Light, cont.

Prayer Wherein God is Revealed in Truth

The Hypostatic Union of the Godhead and the Human

Epilogue

The Holy Mountain and Paris Today, continued.

“Now is the Judgement of this World”

Selected Writings, Vol. 3 (pages 232-244)

Archimandrite Vasileios of Iveron, Mount Athos.

Alexander Press/Sebastian Press 2022

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The Inner Warfare

The dual origin of thoughts

The mechanism of temptation

The spiritual strategy - vigilance and attention (nepsis)

The rejection of wicked thoughts

The role of prayer and patience

Part 4

THE EVERGETINOS: A Complete Text - Book 1
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Episode contents: HYPOTHESIS 1: No one should despair ever, even if he has committed many sins, but should have hope that, through repentance, he shall be saved.
HYPOTHESIS 2: As long as we are in the present life, we must do good here and not delay until the future. For after death we cannot set things aright.
HYPOTHESIS 3: Concerning how we should repent.
HYPOTHESIS 4: That the afflicted should be guided slowly in the works of repentance.
HYPOTHESIS 5: That we must always call to mind death and the future judgement; for he who does not continually expect death and the future judgement is easily overcome by passions.
HYPOTHESIS 6: The Joy of Heaven is inexpressible, as is the glory which awaits the Saints; therefore, we must remember with our whole souls the joy of Heaven and the glory of the Saints. In all that we accomplish, nothing is equal to that joy and glory.
HYPOTHESIS 7: Many times the souls of virtuous people are made cheerful at the time of death by some Divine overshadowing, and thus they depart from the body.
HYPOTHESIS 8: Regarding those who die and come to life again, and how this happens by Divine Providence. And how many times sinners while still alive, beholding the torments of Hell and the demons, shudder with fear; and in this state of fear, their souls depart from the body.
HYPOTHESIS 9: Proof of where the souls of the dying go and how they exist after their separation from the body.
HYPOTHESIS 10: The soul, after its departure from the body, undergoes testing in the air by evil spirits which encounter it and attempt to impede its ascent.

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From: "Hesychia and Theology: The Context for Man's Healing in the Orthodox Church" - Chapter 9: From the Morning Watch until the Night (pages 231-256) - Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece. www.pelagia.org 1. The Meaning of the Verse from the Psalms 2. Elder Sophrony 3. Elder Sophrony's 'Prayer at Daybreak' a) Personal Relationship with God b) Profound Self-Accusation c) Seeking a Blessing on the Whole Day d) Healing of the Will e) Eschatological Prayer 4. Living Examples 5. The Text of the Prayer at Daybreak

Cure of the Passions

Dispassion

General Methods of Healing the Three Parts of the Soul

Many Stages & Degrees of Dispassion

Orthodox Pathology

Particular Methods for Particular Passions

Paths Leading to Dispassion

Suggestions from the Fathers

Therapeutic Methods Applying to All the Passions

Anti-Hesychasm

Devotion to Stillness

Hesychasm

Hesychia as a Method of Healing

Noetic Hesychia & Repentance

Stillness of the Soul

Apologetic Matters

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Written by: Archimandrite Vasileios - Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos

From: Selected Writings, Vol. 3 - Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology - Page 135 “The Meaning of Typikon”

Published by: Alexander Press/Sebastian Press 2022

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THEMES FROM THE PHILOKALIA - Number 1 (Complete)

Watchfulness (Nepsis) & Prayer

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Part 5

Chapter 9 - The Keeper of the Holy Mountain

(Excerpt) “Beauty Will Save the World: An Athonite View”

Archimandrite Vasileios, Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos

Selected Writings Vol. III: Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology

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Narration of the life of Elder Ignatius of Katounakia, the Father Confessor

Written by Monk Joseph Dionysiatis - Athos.

Originally from the brotherhood of Saint Joseph, the Cave-Dweller, Father Haralambos went on the become the abbot of the large Monastery of Dionysiou on Mt. Athos. He reposed in December, 2000. This book writes about his life, teachings, and testimonies of his disciples.

PART 1 - HIS LIFE-STORY

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Chapter 10: Spiritual Trials (pages 193-207)

SVS Press, paperback, 1st Edition 1991.

Written by: Saint Sophrony of Essex, England

Translated from the Russian by: Rosemary Edmonds

Originally published in 1991 by the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights by Maldon, Essex

"Man does not always find it easy with God. In the generally much prolonged periods when grace abandons the soul, God may appear a merciless tyrant. When all his efforts - often pushed to extreme limits - fail to obtain Divine mercy, man suffers acutely that were it possible, he would renounce existence in any form. What, then is the nature of suffering? Not an easy question to answer." (p. 193)

"The soul from love of the Lord has lost her wits. She sits it silence, with no wish to speak, and looks upon the world with mazed eyes, having no desire for it and seeing it not. And people do not know that she is contemplating her beloved Lord, that the world has been left behind and is forgotton, for there is no sweetness therein." (p. 207)

MONASTIC WISDOM: The Letters of Saint Joseph the Hesychast

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Part 4

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Part 3

A WATCHFUL MIND (Part 2): Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart

(Part 1)

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A NIGHT IN THE DESERT OF THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Part 1): Discussion with a Hermit on the Jesus Prayer

Written by: Metr. Hierotheos Vlachos of Nafpaktos

Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery - Levadia, Greece

The author, Metropolitan Hierotheos, is a bishop in the Orthodox Church of Greece, and the author of many books on Christian spiritual life and theology. He is one of the most highly respected and widely read ascetical theologians in the Orthodox Church today. The Holy Mountain is Mt. Athos, a 40 mile long peninsula in northeastern Greece which is home to several thousand Orthodox monks, whose chief work is "praying without ceasing" using the Jesus Prayer, handed down from the early Church. The "desert" refers to the some of the very isolated places on Athos populated by hermit monks living hidden away in little huts or caves (as opposed to the large ancient monasteries on Athos). If we say that the Church is the spiritual army of God, then the monks are the Marines and the hermits are the Green Berets of prayer. interceding for the world and defeating the demons. The bishop is a frequent pilgrim to the Holy Mountain, the spiritual heartland of the Orthodox world. After a particularly fruitful visit with a hermit monk (a God-bearing elder who prefers anonymity), he wrote down their discussion about the Jesus Prayer and published it in Greek (now in over 9 Greek editions). It appeared in English in 1991, with six reprints and a revision, as well as in French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. This fascinating conversation has become a modern classic of Orthodox Christian spiritual literature, in the tradition of the Philokalia. Imported from Greece.

Spiritual Instruction and Discourses - Vol. 1

The Authentic Seal - Ormylia Publishing 1999.

Holy Cenobium of the Annuciation of the Mother of God, Ormylia (Halkidiki) Greece

PART 1:

1. Means of Effecting the Renewal and Renaissance of the Monastic Ideal, 2. Study of the Way of Restoring the Old Canonical Administration of the Holy Monasteries and especially the Principle of the Cenobium, 3. Paper: On the Preparation of an Internal Regulation for the Holy Monasteries of the Church of Greece, 4. On the Installation of the Monastic Sisterhood of the Holy Cenobium in the Monastery of Saints Theodore in Meteora, 5. Addresses delivered during the Enthronement Ceremony at the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, 6. Monastic Life: The House of God and the Gate of Heaven, 7. A Choir Equal to the Angels, 8. Regulations Of the Holy Cenobium of the Annuciation Ormylia, Halkidiki

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Episode Contents: HYPOTHESIS 41: That for those who are not prepared, it is perilous to live alone.
HYPOTHESIS 42: That we should not gainsay anyone in a contentious manner even regarding those things that are considered good, but should be subject to our neighbor in everything.
HYPOTHESIS 43: That whatever happens, happens by the justice of God; for this reason, the believer must always follow Divine Providence and must seek, not his own will, but the Will of God; for he who does or accepts all things in this manner has spiritual rest.
HYPOTHESIS 44: That humility is completely impregnable to demons, how humility is gendered, and what its power is; that humility, more than all the other virtues, is able, by itself, to save a man.
HYPOTHESIS 45: A distinctive mark of the humble man is that he blames and disparages himself and thinks that his good deeds, howsoever many and whatsoever they may be, amount to nothing; what the characteristic traits of humility are, and what are its fruits.
HYPOTHESIS 46: Concerning what profit there is in reproaching ourselves.
HYPOTHESIS 47: That we should not seek honor or desire privileges; for whatever men reckoned to be honorable is an abomination to God.
HYPOTHESIS 48: That to appear to be humble, when this is done inopportunely or excessively, is not beneficial, but harmful; how we ought to act towards those who praise us, and that praise does no harm at all to one who is attentive.
HYPOTHESIS 49: Concerning how one should use clothing, what kind, and up to what point, in order to cover the body, and how the Fathers love frugality, and their very dress; the faithful should prefer frugality and every circumstance.
HYPOTHESIS 50: That we should not do anything to gratify ourselves or do anything out of a passionate craving.

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The world we live has been called a 'vale of tears', a 'place of weeping' - perhaps with good reason. Wherever you turn you see pain, sorrow, undeserved suffering, death, and sin. The 'ruler of this world' (Jn 12:31), the 'world ruler' (Eph. 6:12) is the devil. He is constantly to be seen. God, who is named 'He who is', meaning the One from whom everything comes into being, is nowhere to be seen. 'No one has seen God at any time' (John 1:18). That is why his very existence is a matter of dispute. He has, however, 'revealed himself' (John 21:1), and he promises to manifest himself to whomsoever keeps his commandmentsand loves him: 'I will manifest myself to him' (John 14:21). This book records simple events and conversations, all the while grappling with difficult questions. We see the human struggle to discover the person of God when he is veiled by the logic of this world, our limited understanding, and the arrogant pretentions of human littleness. The book engages intensely with complex and difficult issues...but which leave us confused and at times scandalised. What it does not do is give any direct answers, or try to persuade the reader through logic or impressive arguments. Its aim is to convey the sense of the discreet yet persuasive presence of the true God precisely in situations where He is not visible: in pain, in disability, in the tragedies of life, in inexorable death, as this comes across in true events and is reflected in the lives of real people.

Part 2

Elder Athanasios of Grigoriou

Elder Callinicus the Hesychast

Elder Daniel of Katounakia

Elder Isaac of Dionysiou

Published, translated, and edited from the original Greek by: St. John Chrysostomos Greek Orthodox Monastery - Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. 2021.

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In honor of the most-noble Athonite Elder, Saint Joseph the Hesychast, teacher of noetic prayer and reviver of the neptic tradition in modern times.

Dedicated to: My Elder of blessed memory, Father Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona, the unwavering guide of noetic, grace-filled prayer.

CONTENTS: Praying with the Name of Jesus Christ; "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me" for Clergy and Laity; Manners and Phases of the Prayer; The Jesus Prayer and the Warfare of the Devil; The Jesus Prayer and Purification from the Passions; Prayer, Nepsis and Hesychia; Prayer and Enlightenment of the Nous; Prayer and Mystical Union with God within the Heart; Prayer and Delusion; Epilogue

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The Life of Elder Savvas the New Confessor

Narrated from: "Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, Volume 2"

“How to Represent the Vain Life of this World” from The Painter’s Manual of Dionysius of Fourna. Detailed instructions to a future iconographer.

The life of Athonite Elder Codratus of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou

AN ATHONITE GERONTIKON (Part 4): Sayings of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos

Published by Holy Cross Press, 1987

ISBN 10: 0917651448  ISBN 13: 9780917651441

Table of Contents: Chapter 1: First Impressions / Chapter 2: A Short Trip / Chapter 3: At the Monastery of Dionysiou / Chapter 4: I Become a Monk in Saint Anne / Chapter 5: My First Confession on the Holy Mountain / Chapter 6: Our Group As a Spiritual Nursery / Chapter 7: Scenes From the Life of our Kalyva

Published by: Saint Nilus Skete, Alaska

Written by: Hieromonk Ephraim

Book available: https://www.stnilus.org/book.htm

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Part VI - General Monastery Issues

14) Internet: i) Spiritual Harm, ii) Physical Harm, iii) Psychological Harm, iv) Cognitive Harm Pages 337 - 367

Therapy of Acedia (Despondency)

Therapy of Anger: Gentleness and Patience

Therapy of Fear: The Fear of God

Therapy of Vainglory and Pride: Humility

+ELDER ARSENIOS THE CAVE-DWELLER (1886-1983): Fellow ascetic of Saint Joseph the Hesychast (Part 2)

Translated & Published by: Holy Monastery "Evangelist John the Theologian" - Souroti, Thessalonica, Greece 2002.

From his earliest years Iakovos Tsalikis wanted to become a monk, but he would have to wait. The world had to get to know him and he had to get to know the world. Born in Livisi, a picturesque village in Asia Minor, the Tsalikis family was forcibly uprooted from their ancestral homeland. Leaving the life they knew behind, they took with them what was their true life - their Faith. Resettled in Northern Evia, the future Saint was raised in piety and trained in virtue by his grandmother Despina and mother Theodora. Iakovos worked hard alongside his father, Stavros, and eventually became the provider for the family. At the age of 32, he realized his calling in life by entering the Monastery of Saint David the Elder in Evia, living the rest of his life there as a monk. He rose above insurmountable obstacles, labored ascetically beyond what is human and suffered greatly for the sake of Christ. He received divine gifts as his reward, including clairvoyance and miracle-working, becoming an Elder of great stature. The author of this book, Professor Stylianos Papadopoulos, was blessed to know the Elder personally. His intimate knowledge of the Elder’s life together with his literary talent make the story on these pages come alive. God has not left us without Saints in our age of falsehood and agnosticism. Saint Iakovos intercedes for us today, now glorified among the Saints in heaven. From the vivid, lively stories in this book, may we be moved to glorify God and ask Saint Iakovos to intercede for us!

Elder Arsenios the Cave-Dweller is a biography and spiritual handbook about the co-struggler of Elder (Saint) Joseph the Hesychast of the Holy Mountain.

The book is written by Monk Joseph Dionysaitis of the Holy Mountain.

"I must confess that for Elder Arsenios, the Gospel words, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no guile!" are relevant. He was naturally straight-forward, simple, offenseless, meek, obedient; a rare struggler, who possessed nothing. For Elder Arsenios, his yes was always yes, and his no, no. He never harboured resentment, no matter how he was wronged. He never got angry; he never hurt anyone. He lived obedience with precision. That is why, through obedience and his unwavering faith in his Elder, he lived in a way that surpassed the laws of nature. During vigils, he began the night labouring excessively by kneeling thousands of times and then remained standing until morning." (Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi)

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Compiled by St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood

Translated by Ana Smiljanic

PART ONE

The Life of Elder Thaddeus

PART TWO

The Teachings of Elder Thaddeus

1. On Thoughts, 2. On Family Life, 3. On Humility, 4. On Serving God and Neighbor, 5. On Monasticism, 6. On Repentance, 7. On Prayer, 8. On Love, 9. On the Fallen World, 10. On Spiritual Struggle, 11. On the Faith, 12. On Inner Peace, 13. On the Spiritual Realm, 14. A Homily on the Dormition of the Mother of God, 15. Repentance is a Change of Life, 16. Collected Sayings of Elder Thaddeus

+May his prayers and blessings be upon us.

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