Chapter Six: Holidays, fasting, and individual prayer
(The true goal of prayer is to enter into a dialogue with God. This dialogue is not limited to some hours during which a person prays. […]
1- The silence of the monks, their words and their lives
The Holy Mountain Athos is a secret place that speaks in silence and says a lot. This silence is eternity itself, because it is the language of the age to come. How much?
09:14-31 – This kind does not come out except through prayer and fasting
14 And when he came to the disciples, he saw a large crowd around them, and scribes conversing with them. 15 And immediately the whole crowd, when they saw him, were astonished, and ran and saluted.
06:5-8 - Accepted prayer
Text:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen by men.
The icon as a person. The icon as a child of God
...And the Lord said: “Be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). The call goes back to the day God created man and made him
Orthodox monastic life
1 - Introduction Some say that monks must serve the world so that they do not eat the people’s bread in vain, but we have to understand
Responding to their refusal to pray for the deceased
The Orthodox Church refers in its prayers to death as “sleep,” because it believes in “personal existence after death,” and it hopes for all those who have fallen asleep to rise.
The miraculous Daniel Al-Amoudi
Saint Dania was born in the year 409 AD, after years of impoverishment on his mother’s side. The Lord answered her fervent prayer and tears.
Simon the new miraculous St
This saint is known as Simon the Wonderworker or the Wonderworker, and he is not Simon the Stylite or Simon the New Theologian. Saint Simeon was born
Silouan the Athos
Saint Silouan the Athos was born in Central Russia in 1866, and his family was peasant farmers. He was a simple, strong man, obsessed with the divine