The innermost spiritual sense of Orthodox Monasticism is revealed in joyful mourning. This paradoxical phrase denotes a spiritual state in...
Onto your knees, generations and nations, before the majesty of God! You are quick to fall down on your knees...
Just a little longer and my journey will end. Keep me on the steep path to You just a little...
My elders taught me, when I was a youth, to cling to heaven and earth, lest I stumble. For a...
Are there days gone by, O man, to which you would wish to return? They all attracted you like silk,...
Who put me in this bed of worms? Who buried me in the dust, to become a neighbor of snakes...
Written by Monachos.net Webmaster Vespers on Sunday Evening, with the Rite of ForgivenessThere is no reading from the Psalter. At...
Sergius is a popular and beloved saint of Russia and is considered her patron. He became the patron of the...
You do not ask much of me, my love. Indeed, people ask more.I am wrapped in a thick wrapping of...
Second Kathisma For the End: A Psalm of David Concerning the Hidden Things of the Son, 9. I will...
Written by Father Moïsis, Monk of Mount Athos It is difficult today not to be overwhelmed by the outcry in...
Beloved Brothers in Christ our Lord, Evlogeite! May our Gracious God always bless you! First let me say this you...
by Konstantinos Loulis former Civil Governor of the Holy Mountain Allow me to begin by saying that for two months...
At the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi 1st/14th October 2008-11-03 OPEN LETTER His Excellency Mr. Papoulias, President of the...
A N N O U N C E M E N T By the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopaidi Mount...
