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How the Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopedi is helping people at Porto Lagos
11 December 2011
St Nicholas Metohi at Porto Lagos
The recipient of human suffering
Human pain and the numbers of people who lack even the most basic goods have increased because of the economic crisis. Many... 
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi (By Elder Moses the Hagiorite)
9 December 2011
Early in the morning of the 1st July 2009 monk Joseph of Vatopaidi reposed to the Lord. This is of course not an important announcement. He was not an actor, a singer or a footballer. (Twelve young pe...
What is divine Providence and how is it “manifested” in our lives?
3 December 2011
Divine super-perfection knows about everything before it even happens, up to its very infinite end. To us everything seems unknown, unpredictable and incomprehensible because of the various changes wh...
Benediction Fiction
2 December 2011
Once I accepted an invitation to give the benediction at the graduation of the Medical University of South Carolina. I was delighted that a school like MUSC was still willing to invoke the Name of God...
Short Biography of Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi Monastery (1/7/1921 – 1/7/2009)
24 November 2011
Elder Joseph, insignificant according to the world, was born in Drousia, a small village in the district of Paphos on the island of Saints , on July 1st 1921. His mother Evgenia gave birth to her litt...
Vatopaidi Monastery and the Athoniada Academy (1st part)
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
24 November 2011
A presentation at the two-day conference held in Athens on 11-12 December 1999 entitled ‘The Athoniada Academy: 250 years since its establishment’.
A monk’s ascetic life is experienced in three diffe...
Waiting for seven hours to worship the Holy Belt in Moscow
22 November 2011
Aimilios Polygenis, Moscow
‘I am waiting here for more than six hours, but it doesn’t bother me since I will receive the blessing by the Holy Belt’ told Romfea.gr a father who was queuing up with a t...
Vatopaidi Monastery supports the Archdiocese soup kitchens
15 November 2011
The Abbot of the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, Archimandrite Ephraim has expressed his readiness to support the charity work of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and especially its soup kitchens. Th...
“60 Minutes” visits Mount Athos
11 November 2011
The CBS program "60 Minutes" has succeeded in presenting a rare entrance into the monasteries of Mount Athos, one of the perhaps holiest places in Christianity. Bob Simon goes back in time as he manages to gain access to the monks as they move about ancient monasteries on a remote Greek peninsula, where they have lived a Spartan life of prayer in accordance with a more than thousand year unchanging tradition....
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi: ‘Elder Joseph the Hesychast’
9 November 2011
Orthodox theology recognizes the use of words as the unique therapeutic tool for the recalling of the human nature ‘to its ancient beauty’, irrespective of whether it is written, oral or silent, as lo...
