

Athonite Audio
Athonite Audio
Athonite Audio is an amateur, volunteer based ongoing narration project dedicated to the broadcast and free distribution of spoken word from literature translated into English from the Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos, Russia, Serbia, and beyond.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Feb 2, 2024 • 45min
THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR IN THE TEMPLE (The Feasts of the Lord: An Introduction to the Twelve Feasts and Orthodox Christology) - Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos
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

Jan 31, 2024 • 2h 5min
RECOLLECTIONS OF MOUNT ATHOS - Written by: Archimandrite Cherubim Karambelas
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

Jan 27, 2024 • 37min
(Excerpt) ST SILOUAN THE ATHONITE - Chapter 10: Spiritual Trials - Written by: St. Sophrony of Essex
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)

Jan 27, 2024 • 4h 42min
WISDOM FROM MOUNT ATHOS: The Writings of Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866 - 1938) - Written by: St. Sophrony of Essex
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

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 45min
ELDER HADJI-GEORGIS the ATHONITE (1809-1886) - Written by: Saint Paisios the Athonite
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

Jan 22, 2024 • 6h 41min
THE DEPARTURE OF THE SOUL - According to the Teaching of the Orthodox Church (Readers' Edition)
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.

Jan 12, 2024 • 8h 5min
ASCETICAL HOMILIES OF SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN (Homilies 41 - 77)
HOMILIES 41 - 77 (Part 3 of 3)
Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline,
Massachusetts

Jan 11, 2024 • 5h 25min
ASCETICAL HOMILIES OF SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN (Homilies 11 - 40)
HOMILIES 1 1 - 40
Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline,
Massachusetts
https://www.bostonmonks.com/product_info.php/cPath/75_105/products_id/635

Jan 11, 2024 • 3h 28min
ASCETICAL HOMILIES OF SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN (Homilies 1 - 10)
HOMILIES 1 - 10
Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline,
Massachusetts
https://www.bostonmonks.com/product_info.php/cPath/75_105/products_id/635

Jan 9, 2024 • 8h 31min
PATRISTIC THEOLOGY: The University Lectures of Fr. John Romanides
Book Available for Purchase:
https://uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/patristic-theology/
Published by Uncut Mountain Press


