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CONTENTS
Prologue.......................................................................................11
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit................................................15
Father Tychon..............................................................................27
Elder Evlogios.............................................................................63
Elder Pachomios.........................................................................66
Father Seraphim (the Anchorite of Athos)...............................69
The Unknown Anchorite...........................................................71
Hieromonk Anthimos, the Fool for Christ.............................73
The Wondrous Father Daniel.....................................................84
Elder Cosmas of the Monastery of Pantokrator......................89
Father Philaretos, the Abbot......................................................93
Elder Peter (Petrakis)..................................................................97
Elder Avgoustinos......................................................................110
Father Georgios the Anchorite.................................................120
Elder Philaretos.........................................................................125
Elder Ephraim the “Wretch”...................................................129
Elder Constantine, the Fool for Christ...................................132
Father Savvas of the Monastery of Esphigmenou................138
Elder Tryphon.............................................................................140
Father Cyril................................................................................147
The Hieromonk who was tormented by the evil one because of a prideful thought................................152
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The unprepared clergy who were prevented by God and did not celebrate the Divine Liturgy..............154
Elder Habakkuk.......................................................................156
The two bumptious monks.......................................................159
The wilful disciple....................................................................160
The devout and obedient disciple............................................162
The wilful and negligent novice monk....................................163
The negligent young monk.......................................................164
The negligent elderly monk......................................................165
An Angel castigates the idiorrhythmic Monastery of Xeropotamou....................................166
The Brother who was saved without effort because he did not judge.........................................167
Father Methodios’s and Father Joacheim’s foreknowledge of death............................................168
The disciple who was not obedient to his Elder and was saved, because he hoped in God.............170
The chanter who attended a feast with a Brother who had been dead for six months..................................173
Panaghia anoints a devout young man...................................174
A very faithful and p/n/ofzwo-filled novice is cured by Christ......................................................175
Illnesses are beneficial and rewarded in Heaven, when we patiently endure them........176
The ministering monk who complained.................................177
The careless talk of the naive monk who received corrective punishment from God...........178
Panaghia protects and watches over the monks in Her Garden like a good Mother........180
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The Righteous Martyr Damianos cures a young monk.......180
The value of a monk..................................................................182
The power of the monk’s prayer..............................................183
The power of the komboschoini, of the Jesus Prayer..........184
The power of the Jesus Prayer................................................185
The Jesus Prayer with exertion................................................185
The monk’s spiritual misery comes from worldly convenience...............................................186
Worldly logic brings spiritual ruin...........................................187
Quietude and carefreeness are the most important prerequisites for the spiritual life..........................187
Monks must be a good example for the laity.........................188
Saint George caters for his feast..............................................189
Saint Spyridon caters for his feast...........................................190
God’s blessing comes when we give a blessing...................192
The providence of the “Sweetly-Kissing” Panaghia towards the Holy Monastery of Philotheou.........194
The merciless monk who became deluded............................197
The monk who was saved from dreadful delusion..............200
Pleasant events...........................................................................205
Angel of the Eighth Age...........................................................210
The Return to God, from Earth to Heaven............................212
Maps.............................................................................................240
Sketes and Kellia on Mount Athos.........................................244
Geographical places on Mount Athos....................................246
Geographical places and cities in Greece..............................247