The innermost spiritual sense of Orthodox Monasticism is revealed in joyful mourning. This paradoxical phrase denotes a spiritual state in...
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The innermost spiritual sense of Orthodox Monasticism is revealed in joyful mourning. This paradoxical phrase denotes a spiritual state in...
The άνάλαβος (Analabos), which is the distinctive garment of a monk or a nun Tonsured into the highest grade of...
The monks of the Holy Mountain teach us that through ascetic practices we are able to perfect quietude of body...
Almighty God has gifted Orthodox Christianity with monasticism. It is the “alternative lifestyle” of Orthodoxy to which some, but not...
Continued from (20) 5. The Differences between the Trials Trials (peirasmoi) are so called because they engender experience (peira), since...
Continued from (19) 4. On Trials and the Spiritual Law The Fathers’ saying ‘spill your blood and receive the spirit’...
Continued from (18) 3. On Regime and Disorder Among the duties which the ever-memorable Elder taught us during the first...
Continued from (Part XXXVI) Mechanics of Prayer. The Church of Christ teaches us prayers composed by righteous and holy men....
Continued from (17) 2. On Discovering the Will of God Our life with the Elder had the character of childhood...
Continued from (Part XXXV) Orthodox Prayer. The goal of the Christian’s life on earth is salvation in our Lord Jesus...
Continued from (Part XXXIV) Holy Matrimony. In the theology of the Orthodox Church man is made in the Image of...
Continued from (16) Part Two: Teaching 1. On Sanctification and Dispassion We have already said how difficult it is to...
Continued from (15) It would be an omission not to speak of the other basic characteristic of our ever-memorable Elder,...
Continued from (Part XXXIV) Holy Orders. In the Orthodox Church there are to be found three “Major Orders”-Bishop. Priest and...
Continued from (14) 11. The move to New Skete ‘Arsenios,’ said the Elder one day in June 1951, ‘it looks...
Continued from (Part XXXII) A Lament for Sin. St. Basil the Great says, “Weep over your sin: it is a spiritual...
Continued from (13) The Elder very often stressed the importance of vigil as the most practical method in the spiritual...
Continued from (Part XXXI) Holy Repentance (Penance — Confession). The Sacrament of Repentance developed early in the Church’s history in...
