Holy Monastery of
Faneromeni in Naxos
From the highest peaks to remote ‘non-profit line’ islands, Greece is dotted with monasteries; and nature has offered her best to those who dedicated themselves to the Creator, with a heart wounded by His love…
The purpose of monastic life is the therapy of the heart, so that divine love may be established in it…
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TREMBLING AND ECSTASY
TREMBLING AND ECSTASYReflections of the Night of the Resurrection On the night of the Resurrection, before the ‘Christ is Risen’, we recite outside the churches the most succinct, almost incomplete, account of the evangelist Mark, who wrote the first of the Gospels...
THE ROAD AND THE HOMELAND
You may describe the narrative of the birth and early years of Jesus as an adventure rather than a colourful story. The presence of God on earth is followed by an enormous turmoil, where the line between the human and the demonic is blurred. The mystery—folly and...
TEMPTATION FROM THE RIGHT
‘Right’ and ‘Left’ don’t only have to do with political alignments. The terms were also used to define two categories of temptation in the spiritual life. Indeed, because it’s less perceptible, the temptation ‘from the right’ was considered the more dangerous. When...