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Evangelical Monasticism – Part 4 Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou 2 August 2014 Blessed Seraphim of Sarov, the great Russian hesychast of the last century, said that if you made your peace with God, many people would come to find peace with you. Saint Seraphim was speaking from ...
We Will Not Make the World a Better Place Fr. Stephen Freeman 1 August 2014 I have written previously about various aspects of the “Modern Project.” It is the world we live in. Its ideas and assumptions enter our thoughts with no critical inspection or hesitancy. We are moder...
Saint Symeon the Fool for Christ and Saint John Saint Leontios of Neapolis 21 July 2014 Saint Symeon So when they left the monastery, they said: “God of Your great servant, lead us who are strangers and without help, because we know neither the place nor the area, but since we’re comin...
The Faith that knows no Bounds: The Centurion Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis 16 July 2014 Healing the servant of the Centurion, fresco, Dionysiou Monastery, Holy Mountain, 1547 What do we mean when we say someone’s a believer? What precisely does ‘I believe in God’ mean? Simply that we a...
It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy – Part 2 David Steindl-Rast 15 July 2014 The Lord in His mercy has taught me a hard lesson. You see, I’m the type of person who complains—a lot! My entire life I have tried to find that mystical and mythical pot at the end of the rainbow—I h...
Alexander Schmorell, the New Martyr Yannis Zervos 13 July 2014 Alexander, the New Martyr from Munich: his memory is celebrated on 13 July, the anniversary of his death by beheading. At the age of 25 he was condemned to death by the Nazi regime, for “ultimate bet...
Monk Païsios the Athonite (1924-1994) – 12 July 12 July 2014 Much has been written about the Elder. Those who knew him best and were closest to him have mostly chosen to remain silent. I have imitated them. Not because I was one of them. I’ve simply respected h...
Saint Nicodemus of Vatopedi, elder and teacher of Saint Gregory Palamas Georgios Martzelos 11 July 2014 There is no doubt that, in the 14th century, the Vatopaidi Monastery attracted major figures to settle there from the larger cities of the Byzantine Empire. This seems to have been due not only to the...
Blessed Kyrillos the New (†1833) – 11 July Elder Moisis the Athonite † 11 July 2014 Blessed Kyrillos was born in Marpissa, on the island of Paros in 1748 and his family name was Papadopoulos. As a young man, he went to the Holy Mountain and enrolled as a student in the Vatopaidan Ath...
It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy – Part 1 David Steindl-Rast 9 July 2014 I am slowly learning to be happy, to stop grumbling, to accept the Cross of the everyday struggle.  I came home exhausted, suffering from cramps, sleep deprived, running from Parkway to expressway fro...
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