Archimandrite Vasileios, former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos Selected Writings, Vol. 3 - Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology (Alexander Press 2022) Book available for purchase in the U.S. from publisher Sebastian Press: https://sebastianpress.org/archimandrite-vasileios-selected-writings/ Listener Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio Telegram:...
Feb 12, 2025•37 min
Archimandrite Vasileios, former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos Selected Writings, Vol. 3 - Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology (Alexander Press 2022) Book available for purchase in the U.S. from publisher Sebastian Press - https://sebastianpress.org/archimandrite-vasileios-selected-writings/ Listener Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio https://t.me/athoniteaudio/7303...
Feb 10, 2025•16 min
Archimandrite Vasileios, Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos Selected Writings Volume 2: The Light of Christ Shines Upon All Chapter 5: Abba Isaac the Syrian: An Approach to His World Pages 153-191 Alexander Press/Sebastian Press 2022
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Archimandrite Vasileios - Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos Selected Writings Volume 2: The Light of Christ Shines Upon All “St John Chrysostom and Monasticism” Chapter 4 / Pages 137-152 Alexander Press/Sebastian Press 2022
Feb 07, 2025•25 min
(Excerpt) “The Ease of Violence and the Violence of Ease” Archimandrite Aimilianos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras Spiritual Instruction and Discourses - Vol. I The Authentic Seal Ormylia Publishing 1999 Holy Cenobium of the Annunciation of the Mother of God Book available for purchase: Listener Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio...
Jan 26, 2025•14 min
(Excerpt) “Beauty Will Save the World: An Athonite View” Archimandrite Vasileios, Former Abbot of Iveron Monastery, Mount Athos Selected Writings Vol. III: Monastic Life Today and Liturgical Theology Book available for purchase: https://ap.odoo.symbolitech.com/shop/selected-writings-box-set-212
Jan 25, 2025•37 min
Book available for purchase: https://www.ctosonline.org/patristic/EvCT.html Listener Support: buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio Current Projects: https://t.me/athoniteaudio Episode Contents: HYPOTHESIS 41: That for those who are not prepared, it is perilous to live alone. HYPOTHESIS 42: That we should not gainsay anyone in a contentious manner even regarding those things that are considered good, but should be subject to our neighbor in everything. HYPOTHESIS 43: That whatever happens, happens by t...
Jan 17, 2025•2 hr 32 min
Book available for purchase: https://www.ctosonline.org/patristic/EvCT.html Episode contents: HYPOTHESIS 31: One who has come to the ascetic life should only be closed in monastic garb after he has been sufficiently trained in the virtues; the monastic schema is honorable, soul-profiting, and salvific. HYPOTHESIS 32: The faithful monk should display a manner of life that is appropriate to his schema; for he does not live in conformity with his schema is not faithful; likewise, a Godly old age is...
Jan 16, 2025•3 hr 58 min
Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008. Original narrations: https://t.me/athoniteaudio Listener Support : buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio Episode contents: HYPOTHESIS 21: That we must confess our thoughts to those among the fathers who are discerning and not trust them to just anyone; how we are to confess and what we should ask our confessors; what faith we should place in the answers of the fathers; and how, through this faith, we should work together with ou...
Jan 15, 2025•3 hr 56 min
Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008 Original Narrations : https://t.me/athoniteaudio buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio HYPOTHESIS 11: How, after death, souls are assigned to the same place as those souls which lived in a similar way on earth. HYPOTHESIS 12: God-loving parents should rejoice and be thankful for the trials and temptations that their children endure for the sake of the Lord. As well, parents who love God should exhort their children to struggle...
Jan 14, 2025•3 hr 1 min
THE EVERGETINOS: A Complete Text - Book 1 Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008 https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6830 buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio Episode contents: HYPOTHESIS 1: No one should despair ever, even if he has committed many sins, but should have hope that, through repentance, he shall be saved. HYPOTHESIS 2: As long as we are in the present life, we must do good here and not delay until the future. For after death we cannot set things aright. HY...
Jan 14, 2025•3 hr 46 min
THE EVERGETINOS: A Complete Text - Book 1 Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008 https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6830 buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio
Jan 13, 2025•17 hr 4 min
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/athoniteaudio Saint Porphyrios the Prophet - Witnesses - Volume 2 Many of the miraculous events with regard to Saint Porphyrios remain, to this day -possibly forever- unknown, the same as his great struggles, which he diligently kept secret. This book is just one more piece added to a mystical mosaic that will be revealed to us long after. Saint Porphyrios is a unique presence in the history of our Church, not only due to his exceptional charismata -gifts of grace- h...
Dec 05, 2024•8 hr 30 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6643 The world we live has been called a 'vale of tears', a 'place of weeping' - perhaps with good reason. Wherever you turn you see pain, sorrow, undeserved suffering, death, and sin. The 'ruler of this world' (Jn 12:31), the 'world ruler' (Eph. 6:12) is the devil. He is constantly to be seen. God, who is named 'He who is', meaning the One from whom everything comes into being, is nowhere to be seen. 'No one has seen God at any time' (John 1:18). That is why his very ...
Nov 15, 2024•5 hr 12 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6593 Against his will and at a very young age, young George finds himself in Tibet, "dedicated" to a Buddhist monastery by his grandfather. After fourteen years of devotion to the black arts and worshipping Satan, he finds himself on Mount Athos at age 16, where with the help of Saint Paisius, George learns to confront the forces of darkness with the power of Christ the Light.
Jul 22, 2024•3 hr 28 min
Published by: Holy Monastery "Evangelist John the Theologian" - Souroti, Thessaloniki, Greece PART ONE: THE WAR OF THOUGHTS Chapter One: Good and Evil Thoughts Chapter Two: Blasphemous Thoughts Chapter Three: On Trusting Our Thoughts Chapter Four: The Struggle Against Thoughts PART TWO: RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INJUSTICE Chapter One: Acceptance of injustice Chapter Two: Excuses Turn Away God's Grace Chapter Three: Divine Righteousness and Human Righteousness PART THREE: SIN AND REPENTANCE Chapter One: ...
Jul 07, 2024•8 hr 54 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6576 From: "Hesychia and Theology: The Context for Man's Healing in the Orthodox Church" - Chapter 9: From the Morning Watch until the Night (pages 231-256) - Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece. www.pelagia.org 1. The Meaning of the Verse from the Psalms 2. Elder Sophrony 3. Elder Sophrony's 'Prayer at Daybreak' a) Personal Relationship with God b) Profound Self-Accusation c) Seeking a Blessing on the Whole Day d) Healing of the Will e) Esc...
Jul 05, 2024•58 min
Theology as Charisma and Experience, continued a) St John the Theologian and Evangelist b) St Gregory the Theologian c) St Symeon the New Theologian d) St Gregory Palamas Discussion after the Talk Q1 Progress in Prayer Q2 The Worldwide Influence of Russian Theologians Q3 Curing Human Beings Q4 Noetic Prayer and Evagrius of Pontus Q5 The Method of Hypnotism and Orthodox Psychotherapy Q6 Obedience to the Spiritual Father Q7 Monasticism and Marriage in Relation to Deification Q8 Holy Communion and ...
Jul 04, 2024•7 hr 30 min
The book The Orthodox Church in the World contains theological talks given by the author in Cyprus, Russia, Romania and Georgia at a variety of conferences. The Orthodox Church in the World includes subjects as: Personalism and Person , Theology as Science and as Charisma , The Hesychastic Life according to St Basil the Great , Bringing Up Children Today, Dogma and Ethics and Orthodox Psychotherapy . There are interviews on Therapy and Truth and The Theology of St Gregory Palamas and the Scholas...
Jul 02, 2024•4 hr 39 min
St Paissy Velichkovsky - A Great Hesychast Father 1. His Path to Monasticism 2. Searching for and Translating the Writings of Hesychast Fathers 3. Spiritual Guide to Hundreds and Thousands of Monks 4. Experiencing Hesychastic Monasticism 5. His Saintly Decease 6. The 'Philokalic' Movement in the Orthodox World Conclusion (Pages 405 - 435 of "The Orthodox Church in the World: Talks and Discussions in Cyprus, Russia, Romania and Georgia") Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery - Levadia, G...
Jun 26, 2024•55 min
https://www.pelagia.org/the-orthodox-church-in-the-world.en.aspx https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6299
Jun 25, 2024•12 hr 28 min
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST - (Excerpt from Feasts of the Lord by Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
May 04, 2024•1 hr 30 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6399 CHRIST'S PASSION & CROSS - (Excerpt from The Feasts of the Lord by Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
May 03, 2024•1 hr 29 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6285 Homily delivered in the Church of St. Nicholas, Trikala, Greece, 17 January, 1971. Excerpt from "The Church at Prayer" Edited and annotated by: The Holy Convent of the Annunciation, Ormylia. https://sebastianpress.org/the-church-at-prayer/
Apr 17, 2024•36 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6270 The Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra is one of the most renowned elders of modern Greece. The works collected in the present volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. The experientally based works "On Prayer" and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain"' which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the addresses "The Divine Liturgy" and "Our Chu...
Apr 13, 2024•5 hr 51 min
https://t.me/athoniteaudio/6188 Compiled by St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood Translated by Ana Smiljanic PART ONE The Life of Elder Thaddeus PART TWO The Teachings of Elder Thaddeus 1. On Thoughts, 2. On Family Life, 3. On Humility, 4. On Serving God and Neighbor, 5. On Monasticism, 6. On Repentance, 7. On Prayer, 8. On Love, 9. On the Fallen World, 10. On Spiritual Struggle, 11. On the Faith, 12. On Inner Peace, 13. On the Spiritual Realm, 14. A Homily on the Dormition of the Mother of God, 15....
Mar 27, 2024•6 hr 46 min
(Excerpt) Chapter 9: On the Fallen World
Mar 20, 2024•22 min
(Excerpt) Chapter 1: On Thoughts
Mar 19, 2024•27 min
Published by: Saint Nilus Skete, Alaska Written by: Hieromonk Ephraim Book available: https://www.stnilus.org/book.htm Excerpt: Part VI - General Monastery Issues 14) Internet: i) Spiritual Harm, ii) Physical Harm, iii) Psychological Harm, iv) Cognitive Harm Pages 337 - 367
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 46 min
Book available from publisher: https://www.pelagia.org/the-feasts-of-the-lord.en.aspx Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery - Levadia, Greece Translated by: Esther Williams Chapter 4: The Meeting of Christ in the Temple
Feb 02, 2024•45 min