Source: Pemptousia
February 3, 2016
Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos speaks about how a study of St. Gregory Palamas lead him to wondrous experiences on the Holy Mountain, the saints he met there, and the continuing living Tradition that they hand on in each generation, encapsulatd in the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
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On Elder Kallinikos the Vigilant
Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates
On Elder Kallinikos the Vigilant
The blessed monk lived for some 55 years in the desert dwelling of Saint Yerasimos the Younger and entered upon the sleep of the just there at the age of 77, in the year of our Lord 1930.
The Greek Economic Crisis: An Interview With Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
The Greek Economic Crisis: An Interview With Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
But there is a basic principle: Christianity does all its social work mainly within the church area. Those who perceive the Church as an ideology, as a social and religious system, become frustrated. Those living outside the Church and are involved a few times a year in church life, do not know what is in it.
The Holy Mountain: A Place with Ecumenical Coordinates and a Heavenly Orientation
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
The Holy Mountain: A Place with Ecumenical Coordinates and a Heavenly Orientation
The higher one climbs, the more—we are told by scientists—gravity weakens; the less one can feel earth’s pull, the more one’s ties to earth are loosened; it becomes so much easier for one to depart from earth’s demanding and contending presence. One becomes so much lighter.