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Conversations with Father Zacharias – The Crucified eros
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
16 September 2020
Question: If earthly life without the love of Christ is deprived of all good, how much more is this true in the other world? Living without this love will be ‘the gnashing of teeth’ (Matt. 8:12), ‘the...
Vigilance – the Wealth of Orthodox Asceticism Conversations with Archim. Zacharias
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
3 August 2020
Question: Can you tell us a few words about negative and positive vigilance?
Answer: Negative vigilance is when we resist the attacks of bad thoughts. As soon as they appear, we lift our mind to God ...
Interview with Archimandrite Zacharias (part 2) – Prayer and the Divine Liturgy
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 June 2020
Question: Saint Sophrony says that the Christian should have unceasing inspiration in his life. What does this inspiration consist of?
Answer: ‘Those who are led by the Holy Spirit never cease going ...
Interview with Archimandrite Zacharias (part 1) – The Experience of the Holy Spirit
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
25 June 2020
Question: Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony speak repeatedly about the Holy Spirit. How do we experience the Holy Spirit according to their teaching?
Answer: Everything begins from our faith in Christ...
Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias (III)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
15 June 2020
Question: Can we offend God?
Answer: Of course we can. Even from the beginning of the Bible, God says: ‘My Spirit shall not remain in them because they have become flesh’ (Gen. 6:3) and St Paul says,...
Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias (II)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
3 June 2020
Read the first part here
Question: How is unity acquired in a community?
Answer: We must have all the brethren in our heart, no one should be absent, even those that may wrong us. Unfortunately we d...
Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
3 May 2020
Question: Why have they included marriage in the Sacraments of the Church, and not monasticism?
Answer: Fr Sophrony said to me once: ‘Imagine that they do not accept monasticism as a sacrament of the...
The ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme for Advanced Studies in Orthodox Spiritual Life and Theology 2020-2021
27 February 2020
Scholarship Programme
ANNOUNCEMENT 2020-2021
The Saint Maxim the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ S...
Saint Sophrony of Essex: the Theologian of the Hypostatic Principle is now in the Choir of Saints of the Church
23 October 2019
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew left to the end his final surprise, bringing the joy of the resurrection: the announcement of a fifth new saint which the Mother Church of Constantinople has elevated...
New Abbot elected for St. John’s Monastery in Essex
6 August 2019
The Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Tolleshunt Knights, near Essex, England is the oldest Orthodox monastic community in the country. It was founded in 1958 by Elder Sophrony (Sakharov), the spir...





