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“Beauty Will Save the World”: an Athonite Perspective

When we speak of beauty that is not merely an external and fleeting spectacle or…
Fr. Vasileios Gondikakis

Parallels Between Marriage and Monasticism

I cannot say that I had to pass through the experience of “renunciation” when I…
Fr. Sophrony Sakharov

Upon the Setting of the Sun

Yannis tsarouchis I met Tsarouchis as an old man on Mount Athos, where he would…
Fr. Vasileios Gondikakis

Uniatism as a Method of Papal-Centric Ecumenism

“The Vatican promotes the Theological Dialogue as a means of misleading the Orthodox faithful and…
Fr. Georgios Kapsanis

“Man is not nourished by bread alone” (part B)

Others come to the Mount of Saints to find prophets, soothsayers and run around looking…
Archim.Makarios

“Man is not nourished by bread alone” (part A)

photo by Katrantzis Dimitrios We are admittedly in a difficult time. A time when economic…
Archim.Makarios

ON CHRIST – LIKE LOVE (part 3)

Another said: ‘Our love should be brotherly both towards relatives and strangers. **********  On the…
By Archim. IOANNIKIOS KOTSONIS

ON CHRIST – LIKE LOVE (part 2)

An elder said: "Sometimes we say that we have love. What kind is it though?…
By Archim. IOANNIKIOS KOTSONIS

ON CHRIST – LIKE LOVE

Teachings of holy fathers Saint Gerontios, the first inhabitant of St. Anne's Skete, was taught…
By Archim. IOANNIKIOS KOTSONIS

Another look from Marouda’s cell

We strictly adhere to the law of morality but without heart    Once we were…
Archim.Makarios