Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Elder Joseph the Hesychast PDF Author: Iōsēph (ho Hēsychastēs.)
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Category : Hesychasm
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Elder Joseph the Hesychast PDF Author: Iōsēph (ho Hēsychastēs.)
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Category : Hesychasm
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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My Elder, Joseph the Hesychast

My Elder, Joseph the Hesychast PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780966700084
Category : Monks
Languages : en
Pages : 705

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Monastic Wisdom

Monastic Wisdom PDF Author: Elder Joseph
Publisher: Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery
ISBN: 9780966700015
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Presented here for the first time in English as "Monastic Wisdom," this collection of Elder Joseph's letters makes the wealth of his wisdom and experience available to readers from all walks of life. As his struggles and lifestyle of stillness unfold, readers witness his difficult trials and battles with the demons, his profound visions and spiritual guidance, his martyric endurance in illnesses and finally his holy repose.

Counsels from the Holy Mountain

Counsels from the Holy Mountain PDF Author: Elder Ephraim
Publisher: St Anthonys Greek Orth Monastery
ISBN: 9780966700039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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This treasury of personal counsels and homilies given by Elder Ephraim clearly delineates the Patristic path to sanctification. In "Counsels from the Holy Mountain" he gives advise on every aspect of the spiritual struggle with insight acquired from his experience as a monk for more than fifty years and as the spiritual father of thousands of clergy, monastics, and laymen.

Elder Arsenios the Cave - Dweller (1886 - 1983)

Elder Arsenios the Cave - Dweller (1886 - 1983) PDF Author: Monk Joseph Dionysiatis
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ISBN: 9781716935367
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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I must confess that for Elder Arsenios, the Gospel words, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no guile!"are relevant. He was naturally straight-forward, simple, offenceless, meek, obedient; a rare struggler, who possessed nothing. For Elder Arsenios, his yes was always yes, and his no, no. He never harboured resentment, no matter how he was wronged. He never got angry; he never hurt anyone. He lived obedience with precision. That is why, through obedience and his unwavering faith in his Elder, he lived in a way that surpassed the laws of nature. During vigils, he began the night labouring excessively by kneeling thousands of times and then remained standing until morning. (Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi)

A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain

A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain PDF Author: Hierotheos Vlachos
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Category : Athos (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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From the Holy Mountain

From the Holy Mountain PDF Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307948927
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

The Grace of Incorruption

The Grace of Incorruption PDF Author: Donald Sheehan
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1612617018
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Professor and scholar, teacher of poets and poetry and convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Donald Sheehan wrote these wide-ranging essays with a common commitment to understanding the ways in which the ruining oppositions of our experience can be held within the disciplines of lyric art—held “until God Himself can be seen in the ruins . . . and overwhelmingly and gratefully loved.” That is what Sheehan means by “the grace of incorruption.” Part One weaves together themes from Sheehan’s life and pilgrimages; the spiritual art of Orthodox Saints Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac and Ephraim of Syria, and others; the literary art of Dostoevsky, Frost, Salinger, and contemporary poets including Jane Kenyon; and the philosophy of René Girard—examining the nature of penitence, prayer, personhood, freedom, depression, and the right relationship to the earth. Part Two delves into the poetics of The Psalms, especially LXX 118: a “poetics of resurrection.” “I am dead certain that my response to this volume will chime with those of others whose work is held up to the light in The Grace of Incorruption. In one beautiful sentence after another, we must share the uncanny sense of never having understood our own hearts—not until we saw them reflected in the great heart (and mind) of this nonpareil commentator. Don Sheehan did not merely understand poetry; it was part and parcel of his own great soul." —Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate “This was a very difficult book for me to read, as—now and again—my own tears blinded me to the page, and my own sobbing shook the papers in my hands. That is to say that Donald Sheehan’s journey—through both brokenness and beauty—to a deep and healing calm is at once personal and universal. With a poet’s visionary prose, a scholar’s acuity, and a pilgrim’s devotion, Donald Sheehan offers his reader access to the profound, compelling stillness at the heart of all things. He proves an exceedingly good guide along the way.”—Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: Collected Poems “In this beautiful book, Dostoyevsky, Orthodox liturgy, and Holy Fathers ancient and modern converse with Shakespeare, Frost, Salinger, Jane Kenyon and René Girard, sharing insight into such realities as memory, violence, depression, stillness, self-emptying love, personhood, and ‘the anthropology of the Cross.’ This conversation, a ‘spiritual ecumenism’ effected in art, gathers finally round the heart and source of all tradition of poetry and prayer in Christian East and West alike: the Psalms of David. Orthodox Christian contributions to Anglophone poetry and poetics are few. Don Sheehan was not only a fine interpreter of poetry, but a poet himself, working in the medium of prose. The philosopher Malebranche famously wrote that ‘attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul,’ and the Orthodox liturgy bids us continually to ‘be attentive.’ The essays in this volume capture that spirit of loving attentiveness -- never lacking in form -- for which Don ardently strove, and which characterized his approach to art, to other people, and to God.”—Fr. Matthew Baker, Fordham University

Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall

Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall PDF Author: Alan Keightley
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (MA)
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Anchored in God

Anchored in God PDF Author: Constantine Cavarnos
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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