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The Martyr Saint Cosmas the Protos Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Cosmas was a brother of the Monastery and lived at the ‘Kareon’ Skete. He was Protos of the Holy Synaxis at the time when the supporters of the union with the Roman Catholics, following the ecclesi...
Saint Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery, and the twelve martyr monks with him Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Euthymius was Abbot of the Monastery in the second half of the 13th century - at a critical period for Orthodoxy and the Holy Mountain. This was the time when the Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus a...
Monasticism: The imitation of Christ 4 November 2011 Imprisoned within man’s limited vessel of clay is a wonderful mystery which we are only with difficulty able to approach. This mystery is the spirit of man, through which he perceives, to the best of ...
The Typikon of the monastery 4 November 2011 The spiritual labour of the day in its attempt to acquire the divine virtues prepares for the nocturnal revelation in the known yet most unknown world of divine worship. A knowledge of and contact wi...
Traditions concerning the Monastery 4 November 2011 We have the first evidence of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi in a document of 985 which bears the signature of its first Abbot, Nicholas. In the case of the First Typikon* of Tsimiskes (972), we are ...
The building complex of the Monastic Precinct Ploutarchos L. Theocharidis 4 November 2011 The building complex of the Monastery of Vatopaidi has changed its form many times in its thousand-year history. However, unlike the majority of Athonite monasteries, whose precincts assumed their fin...
Buildings of the Byzantine Period Ploutarchos L. Theocharidis 4 November 2011 Apart from the walls and the towers which we have described above - and, of course, the katholikon - there are two other surviving buildings of the Monastery which date from the Byzantine era: the Cha...
Letters of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, No 9 3 November 2011 “I am not being humble, I am horrified!” To my dearly beloved A and to the church of God which meets at his place, I send my fatherly prayers. I have received your letters, abundant with the affecti...
Letters of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, No 6 3 November 2011 “Confession: a practical obligation of obedience” Nea Skete 8/3/84 To my beloved son and to my darling daughter, I am always sending my fatherly prayers. I have received your letter and I am please...
Letters of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, No 5 3 November 2011 “The divine Grace and human effort” Nea Skete 4/1/1984 My dearest son, I give you a wholehearted and fatherly embrace and kiss. I have felt your real unhappiness about the insignificant little me, ...
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