Category archives: Mount Athos
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3 years ago
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In this recent beautiful Russian film you will see some different places of Mount Athos, like the Russian settlement of Thebais, Panteleimonos, Old Athoniada ruins, Vatopedi, Iviron, The top of Holy Mountain, etc, that are filmed by a drone. The film is made by photographer Valery Bliznyuk and pries... [read more]
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3 years ago
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I See Your Bridal Chamber
Elder Ephraim
„I see Your Bridal Chamber adorned, O my Savior, and I have no wedding garment that I may enter therein. O Giver of Light, make radiant the garment of my soul, and save me,”1 chants our Church during Holy Week.
The Christian soul, the repentant soul, the ... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Christ as our Friend ( Elder Porphyrios )
With the love of Christ He becomes our friend. Saint John says, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. The person who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18). So as our love grows it dissol... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Counsels of Elder Porphyrios
He spoke to us about our faith and how Orthodoxy is the only true faith.
It is like a pearl because the Elder knew all other religions. At other times he would say, “when someone does something bad to you or thinks something bad about you, you shou... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Purification of your soul ( Elder Paisios )
- You must look after the purification of your soul on a daily basis. Do your spiritual work and say the Jesus Prayer. Your thoughts, will and desires are where your mind is. The submission of our spirit is the most important thing. I... [read more]
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3 years ago
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His Beatitude, Our FatherJohn X (Yazigi)
and Their Emminences, the Members of the Holy Synod of Antioch
the Patriarchal Center, Balamand
Our Father, Your Beatitude the Patriarch,
After asking for your blessing and prayers, I present you, as a child of the Orthodox Church in the Holy ... [read more]
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3 years ago
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For us, conciliarity and consultation are not closed off and limited to those who meet, decide what they decide and say what they say, and then their decision is almost automatically the Church's decision and their words the Church's words. The principle of representation is worldly and alien to t... [read more]
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3 years ago
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The Fruits of the Jesus Prayer ( Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos Vlachos )
-I will mention to you some of the fruits of the Jesus prayer, since i can see you are very eager to learn. In the beginning the Jesus prayer is the bread which sustains the athlete,the... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Elder Paisios on the Prayer Rope
-Elder, what meaning does the prayer rope (komboschoini) have?
-The prayer rope is an inheritance, a blessing, which was left to us by the Holy Fathers. And for this alone, it has great worth. You see, when someone's grandfather leaves him a meaningless object as... [read more]
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4 years ago
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An "Open Letter" from Athonite Fathers to the Holy Community of the Holy Mountain of Athos is calling for an immediate convocation of the governing body of Mt. Athos in order to condemn the "false council" of Crete and cease the comemoration of the Patriarch of Constantinople on Mt. Athos.
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4 years ago
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4un8kDLECY
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4 years ago
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The Holy Kinot (central administrative body of Mount Athos) held last May 25th an emergency meeting described as “exceptional” (because it was attended by priests and representatives of all 20 monasteries of Mount Athos), and wrote an open letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I on t... [read more]
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