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Showing posts with label Hesychasm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hesychasm. Show all posts
October 8, 2021

The Hand That Held The Prayer Rope Was Undamaged

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  Recently Fr. Eusebius, who lived in a cell by himself at New Skete of Mount Athos, reposed in the Lord. He had not been seen for 3 or 4 ...
April 17, 2021

Saint Makarios of Corinth as a Model for our Lives

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St. Makarios of Corinth (Feast Day - April 17)  By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas Saint Makarios lived in the 18th and beginning of ...
April 16, 2021

On Noetic Prayer (St. Amphilochios Makris)

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St. Amphilochios Makris taught the following about noetic prayer: When you cultivate the prayer, you are not disturbed by the winds of tempt...
March 21, 2021

First Sunday of Great Lent - The Secret Life of Orthodoxy (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

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  By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou "...hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending an...
December 3, 2020

Saint John the Hesychast as a Model for our Lives

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  By Protopresbyter George Papavarnavas Venerable John the Hesychast was from Nicopolis in Armenia and lived in the fifth century, during th...
June 26, 2018

Saint Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia (+ 1322)

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St. Theoleptos of Philadelphia (Feast Day - June 25) Saint Nikodemos, in his Introduction to the writings of Saint Theoleptos in the Phi...
June 14, 2018

Saint Nephon the Athonite (+ 1411)

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St. Nephon of Kavsokalyva (Feast Day - June 14) Verses Nephon was indeed Sober, Passing his life watchful over the nous. Our Venerabl...
June 20, 2017

Saint Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 1363)

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St. Kallistos I of Constantinople (Feast Day - June 20) Verses Kallistos passed through perishable beauty with a right mind, Now he is...
April 25, 2017

Saint Basil the Hesychast, Abbot of Poiana Marului Skete (+ 1767)

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St. Basil the Hesychast (Feast Day - April 25) In his autobiography, Saint Paisius Velichkovsky calls his spiritual father Saint Basil t...
April 6, 2017

Saint Gregory of Sinai Resource Page

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St. Gregory the Sinaite (Feast Days - November 27, February 11, April 6) Verses Perceived O Gregory as the consummate standard, You en...

Saint Gregory of Sinai (+ 1346)

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St. Gregory of Sinai (Feast Days - November 27, February 11, April 6) Verses Perceived O Gregory as the consummate standard, You encou...
December 9, 2016

The Prophetess Hannah and Noetic Prayer of the Heart

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By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos In the First Book of Kingdoms (First Book of Samuel) we read that God closed Hannah's womb. Th...
November 28, 2016

Who is the Author of "The Way of a Pilgrim"?

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Every devout Orthodox Christian has either read or heard about the book The Way of a Pilgrim . The book describes the journeys of a Russian...
November 22, 2016

Saint Kallistos II Xanthopoulos, Patriarch of Constantinople

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St. Kallistos II Xanthopoulos (Feast Day - November 22) Verses Kallistos supplanted the wicked enemy, Declared a friend he approached G...
November 14, 2016

St. Gregory Palamas and the Essence of Hesychasm

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Icon of St. Gregory Palamas painted by Fr Stamidis Skliris The following is translated from a talk given by His Grace, Atanasije (Jevti...
August 17, 2016

The Experience of the Transfiguration in the Life of the Athonite Monk (5 of 5)

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...continued from part four. "IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR FACE" The whole ascetic life of the monk has as its goal soberness, that is,...
August 13, 2016

The Experience of the Transfiguration in the Life of the Athonite Monk (4 of 5)

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...continued from part three. THE BRIGHT CLOUD At sunset, after having finished his diakonia , accomplished his daily tasks, and retired ...
March 29, 2016

Life and Works of Saint Diadochos of Photiki

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Brief Life and Teachings Saint Diadochos was born around 400, and served as the Bishop of Photiki in Epirus of Northern Greece. In 451, he...
March 25, 2016

The Term "Romiosini" According to Fr. John Romanides

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By Protopresbyter Fr. John S. Romanides First we must have in mind that historically there was never a distinction between the so-called B...
January 13, 2016

St. Maximos of Kapsokalyvia and Fourteenth-Century Athonite Hesychasm

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By Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia "Here every stone breathes prayers", Fr. Nikon of Karoulia (1875-1963) used to say when walking ...