Spiritual Instruction and Discourses, Vol. 1: The Authentic Seal

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Spiritual Instruction and Discourses, Vol. 1: The Authentic Seal

​By Archimandrite Aemilianos of Simonopetra


From the inside cover:

The Jesus Prayer is not simply a prayer. It is food from Christ, the Lamb of God, present in the remembrance and invocation of His divine, terrible and most sweet Name. It is also a draught of the heady new vintage of Grace, which is so uplifting. The whole of Christ is assimilated and then we reflect the properties of God, gods from God made Godly, radiant and mystically active.


​From the Introduction:

​This collection covers a long period of time, from 1968, from the first version of the Internal Rule of thee Holy Cenobium of the Annunciation, until 1994. The homilies were addressed to a variety of audiences and were delivered at different times in the Church year, while the written texts were composed for specific occasions. In both cases, however, the governing concept is the same: the beauty of the monastic state, its discovery and the experience of it. Through this way of life, personal communion with God is achieved by the souls of all the faithful who court and seek Him, and not only those of monks. This experience is manifested, described and reconstructed in a way which is direct and comprehensible, through mystical symbols and Gospel parables, historical narratives and tales of saints, interpretive references and theological formulations, all of which stimulate the souls of [Elder Aemilianos'] audience and disciples to strive in search of the Divine Face.


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Contents:

Prologue

Introduction

Abbreviations


Part I

  1. Means of Effecting the Renewal and Renaissance of the Monastic Ideal
  2. Study of the Way of Restoring the Old Canonical Administration of the Holy Mysteries and Especially the Principle of the Cenobium
  3. Paper: On the Preparation of an Internal Regulation for the Holy Monasteries of the Church of Greece
  4. On the Installation of the Monastic Sisterhood of the Holy Cenobium in the Monastery of the Saints Theodore in Meteora
  5. Addresses Delivered During the Ethronement Ceremony at the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras​
  6. Monastic Life: The House of God and the Gate of Heaven
  7. A Choir Equal to the Angels
  8. Regulations of the Holy Cenobium of the Annunciation Ormylia, Halkidiki


Part II

  1. Catechism on Prayer
  2. Papa-Dimitris Gangastathis
  3. Martyrdom: A Fundamental Element of Orthodox Monasticism
  4. Athonite Life and Human Society
  5. The Prayer of the Holy Mountain: Yesterday and Today
  6. Saint Nicholas: Our Herald to God
  7. The Ease of Violence and the Violence of Ease
  8. Orthodox Spirituality and the Technological Revolution
  9. The Benediction of the Saints of Athos on the Land of Macedonia
  10. Walk in Newness
  11. Elder Sophrony of Essex


Tables of Biblical Passages

Table of Names and Concepts


Hardcover, 400 pp.