Introduction par les Pères spirituels du Monastère de Vatopaidi. – Père Joseph de Vatopaidi (01/07/1921- 01/07/2009) : Il est naturel que...
The feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary is a feast of the Lord and of the Mother of God...
En vivant sans péché, on devient capable d’assimiler les dogmes Est-ce une chose réalisable pour nous de devenir enfants du...
Dans nos rapports avec les autres, il faut surtout manifester de la bienveillance, leur faire sentir que nous leur voulons...
La prière est sobre. Elle est incompatible avec toutes les formes de « pentecôtisme ». Les « pentecôtistes », comme...
Le but de la liberté, explique saint Grégoire de Nazianze, c’est que le bien appartienne en propre à celui qui...
Le monde suit l’homme, puisqu’il est comme sa nature : « l’anthroposphère » pourrait-on dire. Et ce lien anthropocosmique s’accomplit quand s’accomplit celui...
La philosophie antique connaissait la condition centrale de l’homme et l’exprimait par la notion du « microcosme ». Pour les stoïciens en...
St. Paisius Velichkovsky When this happens, occupy the mind with the thought of death. Come mentally to the grave; behold...
Continued from (20) 5. The Differences between the Trials Trials (peirasmoi) are so called because they engender experience (peira), since...
Continued from (19) 4. On Trials and the Spiritual Law The Fathers’ saying ‘spill your blood and receive the spirit’...
Continued from (18) 3. On Regime and Disorder Among the duties which the ever-memorable Elder taught us during the first...
Continued from (17) 2. On Discovering the Will of God Our life with the Elder had the character of childhood...
Continued from (16) Part Two: Teaching 1. On Sanctification and Dispassion We have already said how difficult it is to...
Continued from (15) It would be an omission not to speak of the other basic characteristic of our ever-memorable Elder,...
Continued from (14) 11. The move to New Skete ‘Arsenios,’ said the Elder one day in June 1951, ‘it looks...
Continued from (13) The Elder very often stressed the importance of vigil as the most practical method in the spiritual...
Continued from (12) Perhaps I am now making myself incomprehensible or exaggerating, in the view of those who do not...
Continued from (11) 10. From St Basil to Little St Anna ‘The solitaries lead a blessed life, for divine love...
