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Saint Porphyrios the Prophet - Witnesses - Volume 2

   Many of the miraculous events with regard to Saint Porphyrios remain, to this day -possibly forever- unknown, the same as his great struggles, which he diligently kept secret. This book is just one more piece added to a mystical mosaic that will be revealed to us long after.
    Saint Porphyrios is a unique presence in the history of our Church, not only due to his exceptional charismata -gifts of grace- his hidden ascesis and his vast agape but also due to the orifinality of his teachings. He demonstrated that Christ is our friend, our brother, dispersing the fear of punishment ad hell, He advises us to eschew passions, to pay no attention to our bad side and, instead, give ourselves with wholehearted zeal to the love of Christ. In this manner, he guides us towards unbloody sanctification, by demonstrating a way of ascesis born out of love and gratitude to God.
    We tend to enjoy the fruits and forget about the care and the effort that goes into growing the tree. We enjoy the Saint's grace, with no appreciation for the labor and the sacrifices necessary to reach such heights, and most of all, to remain for seventy years a steadfast, luminous, warm sun. A sun that shone down from Athos and illumined the horizon. It is truly impossible to shed light on the entirety of the Saint's spiritual toil; the task feels as if you lit a candle and hoped to illuminate a planet. This book is such a candle... (From the prologue of the book)

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The world we live has been called a 'vale of tears', a 'place of weeping' - perhaps with good reason. Wherever you turn you see pain, sorrow, undeserved suffering, death, and sin. The 'ruler of this world' (Jn 12:31), the 'world ruler' (Eph. 6:12) is the devil. He is constantly to be seen. God, who is named 'He who is', meaning the One from whom everything comes into being, is nowhere to be seen. 'No one has seen God at any time' (John 1:18). That is why his very existence is a matter of dispute. He has, however, 'revealed himself' (John 21:1), and he promises to manifest himself to whomsoever keeps his commandmentsand loves him: 'I will manifest myself to him' (John 14:21). This book records simple events and conversations, all the while grappling with difficult questions. We see the human struggle to discover the person of God when he is veiled by the logic of this world, our limited understanding, and the arrogant pretentions of human littleness. The book engages intensely with complex and difficult issues...but which leave us confused and at times scandalised. What it does not do is give any direct answers, or try to persuade the reader through logic or impressive arguments. Its aim is to convey the sense of the discreet yet persuasive presence of the true God precisely in situations where He is not visible: in pain, in disability, in the tragedies of life, in inexorable death, as this comes across in true events and is reflected in the lives of real people.

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Against his will and at a very young age, young George finds himself in Tibet, "dedicated" to a Buddhist monastery by his grandfather. After fourteen years of devotion to the black arts and worshipping Satan, he finds himself on Mount Athos at age 16, where with the help of Saint Paisius, George learns to confront the forces of darkness with the power of Christ the Light.

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PART ONE: THE WAR OF THOUGHTS

Chapter One: Good and Evil Thoughts

Chapter Two: Blasphemous Thoughts

Chapter Three: On Trusting Our Thoughts

Chapter Four: The Struggle Against Thoughts

PART TWO: RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INJUSTICE

Chapter One: Acceptance of injustice

Chapter Two: Excuses Turn Away God's Grace

Chapter Three: Divine Righteousness and Human Righteousness

PART THREE: SIN AND REPENTANCE

Chapter One: Sin Tortures Man

Chapter Two: Nurturing the Conscience

Chapter Three: Observing and Knowing Our Self

Chapter Four: Awareness of Our Sinfulness Moves God

Chapter Five: The Immense Power of Repentance

PART FOUR: THE EVIL FORCES OF DARKNESS

Chapter One: Witchcraft and Sorcery

Chapter Two: On the Possessed

Chapter Three: The Terrible Deception

Chapter Four: "The Deceivers and the Deceived"

PART FIVE: THE POWER OF CONFESSION

Chapter One: The Need for a Spiritual Guide

Chapter Two: For an Effective Confession

Chapter Three: The Spiritual Physician of the Soul

Chapter Four: The Work of the Spiritual Father Upon Souls

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From: "Hesychia and Theology: The Context for Man's Healing in the Orthodox Church" - Chapter 9: From the Morning Watch until the Night (pages 231-256) - Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece. www.pelagia.org

Theology as Charisma and Experience, continued

a) St John the Theologian and Evangelist

b) St Gregory the Theologian

c) St Symeon the New Theologian

d) St Gregory Palamas

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 Progress in Prayer

Q2 The Worldwide Influence of Russian Theologians

Q3 Curing Human Beings

Q4 Noetic Prayer and Evagrius of Pontus

Q5 The Method of Hypnotism and Orthodox

Psychotherapy

Q6 Obedience to the Spiritual Father

Q7 Monasticism and Marriage in Relation to Deification

Q8 Holy Communion and Confession

Q9 Holy Communion and Holy Relics

Q10 The Possibility of Baptism in the Mother’s Womb

Q11 Birth Control

Q12 The Relationship between the Divine Liturgy and the

Jesus Prayer

Q13 Theology and Philosophy

Q14 Discerning between Thoughts

Q15 Sorrow and Depression

Part 3 - Romania

1. The Hesychastic Life according to St Basil the Great

1. Correspondence with St Gregory the Theologian

2. Sacred Hesychia and God’s Temple

a) Wandering

b) Leaving the World

c) Life in the Wilderness

d) Prayer and Reading

e) Hesychia

f ) Nous and Theoria

g) Temple of the All-Holy Spirit

h) Transformation of the Whole of Life

3. Hesychast and Celebrant

Epilogue

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Link between Hesychastic Experience and the

Divine Eucharist

Q2 Theoria of the Divine Light

Statement on the Television Station of the Patriarchate of

Romania

The International Conference on St Basil the Great

2. Bringing Up Children Today

1. Children are God’s Gift

2. Bringing up Children in the Church

3. Children as Equal Members of the Church

4. Difficulties connected with the Development and

Upbringing of Children Today

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Hour of Death

Q2 Sickness of the Nous

Q3 Noetic Prayer

Q4 Holy Communion and Confession

Q5 Homeopathy

Q6 Children in the Church

Q7 Choosing Someone to Care for Children

Q8 Dialogues between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox

Q9 Children Facing Death

Q10 Children and Church Attendance

Q11 Religious Education in School

Q12 Demonic Attacks on Children

Q13 Psychological Disturbance

Q14 Unloved Children

3. Interview - The Theology of St Gregory Palamas and the

Scholasticism of Barlaam

Q1 The Historical Context of the Life of St Gregory

Palamas

Q2 Influence of the Holy Mountain on his Life

Q3 Effect of his Conflict with Barlaam

Q4 Popular Interest in Theological Issues

Q5 Summary of St Gregory Palamas’s Teaching

Q6 Knowledge of God

Q7 Patristic Teaching as the Basis of St Gregory Palamas’s

Teaching

Q8 Consequences of the Church’s Victory through St

Gregory Palamas

Q9 The Message of St Gregory Palamas for our Era

4. Interview - Therapy and Truth

Part 4 - Georgia

1. About Orthodox Psychotherapy

1. Why the Book was written

2. The Book’s Title and Subtitle

3. Discussions about the Subject Matter of the Book

4. Orthodox Psychotherapy from the Psychological Point of View

5. Basic Elements of Orthodox Therapeutic Treatment

Discussion after the Talk

Part 5 - St Paissy Velichkovsky

St Paissy Velichkovsky – A Great Hesychast Father

1. His Path to Monasticism

2. Searching for and Translating the Writings of Hesychast

Fathers

3. Spiritual Guide to Hundreds and Thousands of Monks

4. Experiencing Hesychastic Monasticism

5. His Saintly Decease

6. The ‘Philokalic’ Movement in the Orthodox World

Conclusion

The book The Orthodox Church in the World contains theological talks given by the author in Cyprus, Russia, Romania and Georgia at a variety of conferences.

The Orthodox Church in the World includes subjects as: Personalism and Person, Theology as Science and as Charisma, The Hesychastic Life according to St Basil the Great, Bringing Up Children Today, Dogma and Ethics and Orthodox Psychotherapy. There are interviews on Therapy and Truth and The Theology of St Gregory Palamas and the Scholasticism of Barlaam, and the final chapter is devoted to St Paissy Velichkovsky – A Great Hesychast Father who “unites the Holy Mountain with the Balkans and Russia.”

An unusual feature of The Orthodox Church in the World is the record of the wide-ranging discussions that took place between the author the audience after each talk. Answers are given on issues of the spiritual life, which will help the clergy, monks and laypeople, parents and young people. True theology can transform society. The author points out to his audience the great importance and value of the Church’s hesychastic tradition, which gives meaning to life.

His Eminence the Metropolitan Hierotheos stresses that Orthodoxy possesses a spiritual therapeutic method for curing human beings so that, once cured, they can meet God as light and Paradise, and not as fire. Curing the human soul is not an individual act, but a method followed within the Church through the Sacraments and asceticism, by which man acquires unity with God. Discerning the depths of his listeners’ hearts and their concerns, the author answers them from his heart, revealing aspects of his own personal life.

At the end of book, prompted by the publication of the book St Paissy Velichkovsky, by Professor Antonios-Emilios Tachiaos of the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki, the author identifies basic points from this impressive and surprising biography of St Paissy, who loved hesychia and the neptic tradition of the Church from his youth.

St Paissy Velichkovsky - A Great Hesychast Father

1. His Path to Monasticism

2. Searching for and Translating the Writings of Hesychast Fathers

3. Spiritual Guide to Hundreds and Thousands of Monks

4. Experiencing Hesychastic Monasticism

5. His Saintly Decease

6. The 'Philokalic' Movement in the Orthodox World

Conclusion

(Pages 405 - 435 of "The Orthodox Church in the World: Talks and Discussions in Cyprus, Russia, Romania and Georgia")

Published by: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery - Levadia, Greece

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THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST - (Excerpt from Feasts of the Lord by Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)