Μοναχική αφιέρωση – Monastic Dedication (Vol 1 on Monastic Life, St. Paisios – Greek)

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Με την βοήθεια του Θεού, προβαίνουμε στην έκδοση του πρώτου τόμου μιας νέας, τετράτομης, σειράς που έχει τον γενικό τίτλο «Αγίου Παϊσίου του Αγιορείτου Λόγοι περί μοναχικής ζωής». Στην προηγούμενη, εξάτομη, σειρά, η οποία εκδόθηκε στην διάρκεια των ετών 1998-2012 υπό τον τίτλο «Γέροντος Παϊσίου Αγιορείτου Λόγοι», περιλαμβάνονται θέματα, τα οποία αφορούν και στους λαϊκούς και στους μοναχούς. Οι τέσσερεις τόμοι της νέας σειράς αναφέρονται κατ’ εξοχήν στην μοναχική ζωή και ιδιαίτερα στην «υπομονητική ζωή του Κοινοβίου» (Αγ. Ιωάννου του Σιναΐτου, Κλίμαξ, Λόγος Α’, παρ. μζ’). Τα θέματά τους σε γενικές γραμμές είναι τα εξής: το ξεκίνημα για την μοναχική ζωή, ο αγώνας των αρχαρίων, η μοναχική κουρά και οι μοναχικές αρετές, το πρόγραμμα και η λειτουργία του Κοινοβίου, η πνευματική οικογένεια του Κοινοβίου και η θέση του Γέροντα ή της Γερόντισσας μέσα σε αυτήν, η προσευχή, η μελέτη, η άσκηση και η διακονία των μοναχών. (Από τον πρόλογο της έκδοσης, Η Καθηγουμένη του Ιερού Ησυχαστηρίου Φιλοθέη Μοναχή)

With the help of God, we are publishing the first volume of a new four-volume series with the general title “Speeches of St Paisios of Mount Athos on monastic life”. In the previous, six-volume series, which was published during the years 1998-2012 under the title “Speeches of Elder Paisios of Mount Athos”, includes issues that concern both the laity and the monks. The four volumes of the new series refer eminently to the monastic life and especially to the “Patient life of the Coenobium” (St. John of Sinai of the Ladder). The themes in general are the following: the beginning of the monastic life, the struggle of the beginners, the monastic tonsure and monastic virtues, the program and function of the Coenobium, the spiritual family of the Coenobium and the position of the Elder or Elderess within it, prayer, study, asceticism and ministry of monastics. (From the preface of the publication, The Abbess of the Holy Monastery – Mother Philothei)

The Blessed Elder Paisios was born on 25th July 1924. From the time that he was a child, Elder Paisios lived an ascetic life, and was nourished by the lives of the Saints, whose feats he sought to imitate with great zeal and admirable precision. He practised unceasing prayer, cultivating all along the virtues of humility and love. He led an ascetic life on Mount Athos, in the Holy Monastery of Stomion in Konitsa, and on Mount Sinai in Egypt. He lived in obscurity, giving himself completely to God, and God in turn revealed him and gave him to the whole world. He guided, consoled, healed and granted peace to multitudes of people who sought him. His sanctified soul overflowed with divine love and his saintly face radiated the divine Grace. All day long, he tirelessly gathered the human pain and imparted divine consolation. He is the founder of the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Souroti of Thessalonica, Greece, which he also guided spiritually for twenty-eight years (1967-1994). After suffering excruciating pains, which, as he used to say, benefited him more than the ascetic struggles of his entire life, he fell asleep in the Lord on 12 July 1994. He was canonised a saint on January 13, 2015.
SOFT COVER 24cm X 16cm, 303 pages.
Language: Greek