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(Excerpt) Chapter 9: On the Fallen World

(Excerpt) Chapter 1: On Thoughts

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

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

Published by Holy Cross Press, 1987 ISBN 10: 0917651448  ISBN 13: 9780917651441 Table of Contents: Chapter 1: First Impressions / Chapter 2: A Short Trip / Chapter 3: At the Monastery of Dionysiou / Chapter 4: I Become a Monk in Saint Anne / Chapter 5: My First Confession on the Holy Mountain / Chapter 6: Our Group As a Spiritual Nursery / Chapter 7: Scenes From the Life of our Kalyva

Book available: https://svspress.com/saint-silouan-the-athonite-new-edition/ Telegram episode: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/1665 Excerpt: Chapter 10: Spiritual Trials (pages 193-207) SVS Press, paperback, 1st Edition 1991. Written by: Saint Sophrony of Essex, England Translated from the Russian by: Rosemary Edmonds Originally published in 1991 by the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights by Maldon, Essex "Man does not always find it easy with God. In the generally much prolonged periods when grace abandons the soul, God may appear a merciless tyrant. When all his efforts - often pushed to extreme limits - fail to obtain Divine mercy, man suffers acutely that were it possible, he would renounce existence in any form. What, then is the nature of suffering? Not an easy question to answer." (p. 193) "The soul from love of the Lord has lost her wits. She sits it silence, with no wish to speak, and looks upon the world with mazed eyes, having no desire for it and seeing it not. And people do not know that she is contemplating her beloved Lord, that the world has been left behind and is forgotton, for there is no sweetness therein." (p. 207)

Book available from publisher: https://svspress.com/wisdom-from-mount-athos/ Telegram episode: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/1666 Saint Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education consisted of two winters at the village school. But on Mt Athos, rooted in a tradition reaching back to the very beginnings of Christian monasticism, he was taught of God and attained wisdom and spiritual maturity akin to that of the Desert Fathers. CONTENTS: 1. Of the Knowledge of God2. On Love3. The Soul’s Yearning for God4. Adam’s Lament5. On the Mother of God and the Saints6. We are God’s children—we are in the likeness of the Lord7. On the Will of God and on Freedom8. On Prayer9. On Humility10. Concerning Peace and Grace11. Spiritual Warfare12. Thoughts on departing from this life

Published by: Holy Monastery of the Evangelist John the Theologian - Souroti, Thessaloniki, Greece. Book available for purchase: https://www.athoniteusa.com/products/elder-hadji-georgis-the-athonite Contents include: Prefatory note, Preface, Introduction, The Life of our Blessed Father George (Hadji-Georgis), Letter of Hadji-Georgis to Metropolitan of Chios, The Spiritual Forefathers of Hadji-Georgis, Spiritual Laws, Epilogue

Published by: Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery - Florence, Arizona. Book available to purchase at: https://stanthonysmonastery.org/products/the-departure-of-the-soul-readers-edition And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) DEATH MUST FIND US READY. THE SAINTS WILL HELP US TO BE PREPARED. What happens to our soul at the hour of its departure from this world? What is waiting for us in the next life? Are we ready for the final journey to the meeting with God? The most certain thing in life is death. And yet so few have sure knowledge of what happens at that hour, the most critical hour of our existence. The reader's edition of The Departure of the Soul includes the most vivid and gripping accounts from the comprehensive 1,112-page master reference edition—accounts of the departure of the soul as revealed by God to His saints. They experienced the mystery, they saw the departure, and they returned from that awesome spectacle to teach us how to be prepared.

HOMILIES 41 - 77 (Part 3 of 3) Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, Massachusetts