From: The Feasts of the Lord: An Introduction to the Twelve Feasts and Orthodox Christology

Chapter 11: The Divine Ascension

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

Translated into English: Esther Williams

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End Times Publishing 2024

For many years, the Venerable Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni in Cyprus, a Spiritual Lighthouse and stronghold of Orthodoxy, has been publishing the theological and patristic worthy periodical entitled THE LIFE-GIVING CROSS.

With the permission and blessing of the Holy Monastery, we [Orthodox Kypseli] have deemed it particularly appropriate to republish a serious study in a special issue on the destructive rise of carnal sins and unnatural deviations.

It is now published to protect all who want to be saved from the fiery blaze of carnal perdition.

After God, we express our warm gratitude to the toilsome, venerable Fathers of the Monastery for their practical love for the people of God. Their contribution is significant for the correct information, spiritual armor, and achievement of evangelical and patristic spirituality in the times of the great general apostasy, insensitivity, and unrepentance that we have become, not excluding most so-called Orthodox Christians. (From the Introduction)

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Part 2 - Chapters 16: Eldress Anna - Chapter 45: A young boy with a gift of clairvoyance

Dedicated: “To the known and unknown martyrs of Christ”

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Published by: St Nikodemos the Hagiorite Publication Society and The Sacred Hermitage of St. John the Forerunner, Metamorphosis, Chalcidice Greece

The Holy Mountain 2008

Translated in English by: Fr. Nicholas Palis

Edited by: Rev. Theodore Petrides

Published by: St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite Publication Society & The Sacred Hermitage of St. John the Forerunner (Metamorphosis, Chalcidice Greece)

Translated in English by: Fr. Nicholas Palis

Edited by: Rev. Theodore Petrides

In the noetic firmament of our Church, many brilliant starts (in other words, familiar saints), belong to the ranks of the laity. Aside from the martyrs and the neomartyrs, the majority of whom were lay people, there are also many lay saints.
Hence, sanctity is not the exclusive privilege of monks and priests but it is, rather, possible for every Christian who has correct Faith, repentance and a mindset to struggle.
In this collection, we present biographies of people who lived in various parts of Greece and other countries, and from various times, the Turkish occupation down to today. They were of different ages, races and states (clergymen or laypeople, family men or pay monastics). They each had their character and their personal struggle, but they also had some common characteristics between them: strong faith and great love for Christ.
Today, especially we have need of such bright examples. Now that another type of person is being formulated, a selfish and egocentric one, the showcasing and imitation of these graceful souls will help strengthen out lay ascetic tradition. By living it we may return to our original beauty, as we were first created, and re-depict the true image of man, which unfortunately, is buried in the passions and justifications of our contemporary fleshly people. So be it. – Prologue

Part 2: Letters 60 - 148 & Poems 1 - 10

Addendum & Chronology of Significant Events

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Published by: Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi 2023 - Holy Mountain Series - 1

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Part 1: Introduction - Letter 59

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Published by: Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi 2023 - Holy Mountain Series - 1

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The letters of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, already well known to the world since their publication in the book Monastic Wisdom, are for the first time now available exactly as they were written by the Saint himself from his small hesychastic cave on Mount Athos.  The book contains a lengthy introduction on the life of Saint Joseph, poems published for the first time in English, as well as many new unpublished letters available to us through the publishing efforts of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi.

Holy Bishopric of Morphou

Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou

Editions Theomorphou - Nicosia 2024 https://www.immorfou.org.cy

“Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.”  — Psalm 19:4

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"The time has come when everything will be humbled... they will be humbled so they can be crucified, to be resurrected and glorified again in Orthodox manner in all the earth. Since we don't have an "ethnic or national" God, but the Trinitarian God, the God of the entire world, Who wants the apostolic faith of the Orthodox to try the faith or lack thereof of all of us -leaders and populace- in our days. Because Christ needs His own people now, to create "the new crew of His ship", as St Porphyrios the Kafsokalyvia used to say. What is the ship of Christ? It's the Orthodox Church. That is the ship of Christ. And Christ has decided to clear the crew of His ship, which is not only you simple Christians, but the priests, the bishops, the patriarchs, and the civil authorities. Now we will all take exams. Let us, with the Holy Spirit -the Spirit of Truth- struggle to cleanse ourselves through repentance, to pass from the unnatural to the natural, and to reach the supernatural, which our Orthodox Church wants to give us -and not only to us but to every well-intentioned person, European or not. Because the one and only truth of the Orthodox faith is that which frees man from sin, from deception, from death, and from the devil... And because we love the man but not the sin, we love Europe more than people realize! Freedom from sin and the atheism of Europe will help the whole world; and this will come through the brightness of Orthodoxy which will come after the events -the painful and pedagogical events- that we're living through and will live through."

+Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou

Published by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA

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Saint John Climacus, sixth century abbot of Sinai, compared the spiritual life to a ladder of thirty steps, and explained in detail the challenges presented by each of those steps. This spiritual classic has brought inspiration and edification to every generation since that time. Read every year during Great Lent in monastic refectories, this book has been treasured by both monastics and laymen.

Volume 2

Written by: His Grace Bishop Emilianos of Meloa

Published by: Fountain of Light

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Table of Contents:

Foreward

Nepsis: A Rule of Prayer

Nepsis: Experiencing God

Nepsis: Humbling Ourselves Willingly

Nepsis: Self-knowledge

Nepsis: Knowing our Limits

Written by: His Grace Bishop Emilianos of Meloa

Published by: Fountain of Light

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Table of Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

An Interview on Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra and Neptic Vigilence: Everything I am will be is because of Him

Talk One - Nepsis: A Spiritual Method

Talk Two - Nepsis: Closing the Door

Talk Three - Nepsis: Our Intellect in Charge

Talk Four - Nepsis: Rejecting All Thoughts

About the Author - Other Work by His Grace Bishop Emilianos