Source: Pemptousia
October 28, 2015
Elder Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras on Mt. Athos, spoke on the topic of the 1050th anniversary of the blessed Mt Athos. The talk was given at an adult school in the city of Katerini, Macedonia, Greece.
30 октября 2015 г.
Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos
Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos
On 17 June 2015, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of the Russian monasticism on the Holy Mountain of Athos.
On St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and the Kollyvades Fathers
Archimandrite Nikodemos Skrettas
On St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and the Kollyvades Fathers
Against the supposedly very knowledgeable western man who lives intensely in his “enlightenment,” his vast storage of knowledge, the Kollyvades came and placed the struggling ascetic man seeking for holiness, and the new martyrs. In this context of sanctification and holiness the Kollyvades Fathers of the Philokalia stood and lived.
The Skete of St. Anna on Mt. Athos
The Skete of St. Anna on Mt. Athos
Today the Church celebrates the Dormition of Holy Righteous Anna, the Mother of Mary the Birth-giver of God. This is the day that St. Anna departed this world. The monks of Mt. Athos, the reigning Abbess of which is the Most Holy Theotokos, have always had a special veneration of St. Anna.
