Athonite Fathers and Athonite Matters

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English translation of the Greek original, Agioreitai Pateres kai Agioreitika, 1st edition, 1993 First English translation edition published in 1999 CONTENTS Prologue.......................................................................................11 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit................................................15 Father Tychon..............................................................................27 Elder Evlogios.............................................................................63 Elder Pachomios.........................................................................66 Father Seraphim (the Anchorite of Athos)...............................69 The Unknown Anchorite...........................................................71 Hieromonk Anthimos, the Fool for Christ.............................73 The Wondrous Father Daniel.....................................................84 Elder Cosmas of the Monastery of Pantokrator......................89 Father Philaretos, the Abbot......................................................93 Elder Peter (Petrakis)..................................................................97 Elder Avgoustinos......................................................................110 Father Georgios the Anchorite.................................................120 Elder Philaretos.........................................................................125 Elder Ephraim the “Wretch”...................................................129 Elder Constantine, the Fool for Christ...................................132 Father Savvas of the Monastery of Esphigmenou................138 Elder Tryphon.............................................................................140 Father Cyril................................................................................147 The Hieromonk who was tormented by the evil one because of a prideful thought................................152 8 The unprepared clergy who were prevented by God and did not celebrate the Divine Liturgy..............154 Elder Habakkuk.......................................................................156 The two bumptious monks.......................................................159 The wilful disciple....................................................................160 The devout and obedient disciple............................................162 The wilful and negligent novice monk....................................163 The negligent young monk.......................................................164 The negligent elderly monk......................................................165 An Angel castigates the idiorrhythmic Monastery of Xeropotamou....................................166 The Brother who was saved without effort because he did not judge.........................................167 Father Methodios’s and Father Joacheim’s foreknowledge of death............................................168 The disciple who was not obedient to his Elder and was saved, because he hoped in God.............170 The chanter who attended a feast with a Brother who had been dead for six months..................................173 Panaghia anoints a devout young man...................................174 A very faithful and p/n/ofzwo-filled novice is cured by Christ......................................................175 Illnesses are beneficial and rewarded in Heaven, when we patiently endure them........176 The ministering monk who complained.................................177 The careless talk of the naive monk who received corrective punishment from God...........178 Panaghia protects and watches over the monks in Her Garden like a good Mother........180 9 The Righteous Martyr Damianos cures a young monk.......180 The value of a monk..................................................................182 The power of the monk’s prayer..............................................183 The power of the komboschoini, of the Jesus Prayer..........184 The power of the Jesus Prayer................................................185 The Jesus Prayer with exertion................................................185 The monk’s spiritual misery comes from worldly convenience...............................................186 Worldly logic brings spiritual ruin...........................................187 Quietude and carefreeness are the most important prerequisites for the spiritual life..........................187 Monks must be a good example for the laity.........................188 Saint George caters for his feast..............................................189 Saint Spyridon caters for his feast...........................................190 God’s blessing comes when we give a blessing...................192 The providence of the “Sweetly-Kissing” Panaghia towards the Holy Monastery of Philotheou.........194 The merciless monk who became deluded............................197 The monk who was saved from dreadful delusion..............200 Pleasant events...........................................................................205 Angel of the Eighth Age...........................................................210 The Return to God, from Earth to Heaven............................212 Maps.............................................................................................240 Sketes and Kellia on Mount Athos.........................................244 Geographical places on Mount Athos....................................246 Geographical places and cities in Greece..............................247