1st e-Meeting from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi, Students and Alumni of St Tikhon’s Seminary – Oct 30, 2020 07:00 PM Athens

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Saint Païsios the Athonite writes:

Monasteries and kellia had asked to be allowed to look after Elder Filaret [a Romanian Athonite monk (1892-1975)] and his almost paralyzed disciple, Father Bartolomeu, in their old age, but they wouldn’t go.

It s...

We should feel that Christ’s our friend, because He is. He says so Himself when He says: ‘You are my friends…’. We should look upon Him and approach Him as a friend. Do we fall? Do we sin? With familiarity, love and trust we should run to Him. Not...

Saint John Chrysostom shows us five practical ways to repent. He says:

The first way is to condemn yourself for your sins. The Lord esteems this action greatly. If, of your own volition, you condemn your sins, you’re less likely to repeat them. No...

The door to repentance is open to everybody and we don’t know who’ll go through it first, you who are judging another person, or the person that you’re judging.

Like many, if not all, Elders on the Mountain, Elder Aimilianos was very loving towards those in his spiritual charge- in his case the monks at Simonos Petras and the nuns at Ormylia. But, to use a colloquial expression, ‘he took no prisoners’. A ...

In a lyrical psalm [132], the great poet of our Church, the Prophet David, gives the name ‘myrrh’ to the spirit of unity among those dwelling together under the sanctified protection of the Church. They have common desires, longings, the same figh...

The characteristic feature of true repentance is profound emotion, devastation and sorrow of the heart, which is sad not because it’s going to be punished, but because, with its sin, it saddened and angered God Who is such a loving and tender Fath...

Saint Demetrius, byzantine mosaic from his church in Thessaloniki, 8th Century

Another point of interest is that the church of Saint Dimitrios, for 60 years (1430-1490) remained as part of the local Church, when almost all the other churches in Th...

The Lord left Galilee to go to the eastern shore of the lake, on the border of Israel. The local inhabitants were Jews, but had been influenced greatly by the pagan way of life and so the demons had greater authority, because of the apostasy of th...