Sin never appears as it really is, naked, abstract, because if it did, it wouldn’t deceive people’s minds so easily...
Nobody’s infallible, especially when they’re still imperfect and full of badness. There are lots of things they don’t know, and...
By Archimandrite Touma (Bitar) Abbot of the Monastery of St. Silouan the Athonite– Douma A few years ago, before the...
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh There is anguish when a woman is in labour, but all this is forgotten when the...
by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson «Could I rent that little house in the back for my family?» Joseph inquired at...
Source: Romfea Byzantium may have perished and did not survive as a state. Nevertheless, it survives spiritually as a genuine...
Scenes from the 1st year memorial service on the resting place of Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi. Click here for the...
Hermitage where famous Mount Athos monk Josif Isihasta spiritually struggled. Our Merciful Lord Christ, everlasting thanks to You for making...
Continued from (20) 5. The Differences between the Trials Trials (peirasmoi) are so called because they engender experience (peira), since...
Continued from (19) 4. On Trials and the Spiritual Law The Fathers’ saying ‘spill your blood and receive the spirit’...
My child wake up and don’t waste your time on nonsense! Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
Continued from (18) 3. On Regime and Disorder Among the duties which the ever-memorable Elder taught us during the first...
Continued from (17) 2. On Discovering the Will of God Our life with the Elder had the character of childhood...
Continued from (16) Part Two: Teaching 1. On Sanctification and Dispassion We have already said how difficult it is to...
Continued from (15) It would be an omission not to speak of the other basic characteristic of our ever-memorable Elder,...
Continued from (14) 11. The move to New Skete ‘Arsenios,’ said the Elder one day in June 1951, ‘it looks...
Continued from (13) The Elder very often stressed the importance of vigil as the most practical method in the spiritual...
Continued from (12) Perhaps I am now making myself incomprehensible or exaggerating, in the view of those who do not...
Continued from (11) 10. From St Basil to Little St Anna ‘The solitaries lead a blessed life, for divine love...
Continued from (10) Although they stayed in their hut more than before, they did go out from time to...
