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The experience of honor – Photo Journal from the Litany at Hilandar Monastery

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  • Mount Athos
  • Prayer
  • Tradition, learning and education
Apr 30 2019
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In the following photos you will see candid shots from the litany at the Hilandar monastery, where Abbot Ephraim was given the first place of honour at the litany in the Monastery of Hilandar. This happens because of the great love between the two brotherhoods, love which is traced back to the founding of Hilandar, because the founders were saints from Vatopaidi – Saint Savvas and Symeon. Ever since then, the two monasteries are regarded as sister monasteries.

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Orthodoxy is the true path – Photo Journal (the footpath to the Pantokrator Monastery) (Audio)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Mount Athos
Dec 28 2016
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Orthodoxy as the true path to the heavenly Jerusalem does not guarantee that the path will be “ok”. It guarantees that,

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The Holy Monastery of Pantokrator, Mount Athos

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Jun 07 2015
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The Holy Monastery of Pantocrator stands on the north-eastern side of the Athos peninsula, by the sea. Nearby is the site of the ancient city of Thyssus. Although age-long oral tradition maintains that…

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Skete of Saint Demetrios: a view of a typical monastic settlement on Mount Athos

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Mount Athos
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Slander
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Mar 08 2015
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View of a typical monastic settlement on Mount Athos. It is hidden away in a dense forest, in a peaceful area conducive to prayer and spiritual development. A person must live like an exile from this world in order to…

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The Holy Monastery of Hilandar, Mount Athos

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Mar 01 2015
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Hilandar Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. It was founded in 1198 by the first…

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The Holy Monastery of Grigoriou, Mount Athos

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Feb 22 2015
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The monastery was founded by St. Gregory of Mount Athos (Younger) in the fourteenth century when he came to Mount Athos to pursue asceticism. By the end of the 15h century,…

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The Skete of Saint Andrew (Sarai)

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 15 2015
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The Skete of Saint Andrew, also the Skete of Apostle Andrew and Great Anthony in Karyes is a monastic institution on Mount Athos. It is a…

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The Holy Monastery of Agios Pavlos (St Paul), Mount Athos

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 08 2015
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The monastery was founded shortly before 980 and was called St Paul’s or Xeropotamou. The founder seems to have been the prominent monk Paul, who also founded the Monastery of…

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The Holy Monastery of Dionysiou

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  • Mount Athos
Feb 01 2015
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The Holy Monastery of Dionysiou, or ‘Nea Petra,’ stands on a narrow and precipitous rock at a height of…

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The Holy Monastery of Kostamonitou (or Kastamonitou)

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  • Mount Athos
Dec 26 2014
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The monastery was founded in the first half of the 11th century by a man from Kastamoni in Anatolia, from whom it takes its name. A more recent benefactor was the Christian wife of Ali Pasha,…

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