Understanding Athos

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An entrance into the meaning of the Holy Mountain: the monastic calling, prayer and silence, communal and solitary life, and the experience of Athos. Read the essays and accounts below in their authors’ own voices.

Begin here

• FAQ- Frequently asked questions about Mount Athos
• Mount Athos (Agion Oros) Guide
• January 14 is new-year's day on Mt Athos
• The Sign of Mt Athos Avaton at the Border

Monastic calling, silence, and spiritual experience

• Orthodoxy-in prison in the mountains
• Orthodoxy-in prison on the mountains
• Spiritual experience at Konstamonitou Monastery
• The Passion in Monasticism: The Ineffable
• Ορθοδοξία-Ἤ στά βουνά ἤ στίς φυλακές
• Το Πάθος στο Μοναχισμό-το Αρρητο
• Неизреченное, Мужчина До Слова и Первое Слово

Monks, teachers, and personal accounts

• Abbot Aimilianos of Simonos Petra
• Abbot Alexios of Xenophontos Monastery
• Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery
• Abbot Gabriel of Pantokratoros Monastery
• Correspondence Kondoglou-Isidoros 30 Jan1926
• Fotis Kontoglou on Mt Athos
• Fotis Kontoglou – Summer on Mt Athos
• Isidoros Kafsokalyvitis
• Memories from Athos in 1983
• The caique from Lavra
• The caique from Lavra
• The caique from Lavra - a review
• The caique from Lavra shipwrecked
• ΤΟ ΚΑΙΚΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΛΑΥΡΑ
• Το καικι απο τη Λαυρα - το ναυαγιο

Essays and interpretations

• Athanasios the Athonite-creator and destroyer of monasticism
• Ephraim of Fillotheou savior and destroyer of Athonite monasticism
• Thousand-year-old Athonite monastic tradition debatable
• Random Orthodox obsessive-compulsive thoughts
• The peculiar relation of Greeks to Christian Divinity
• ΛΟΓΟΙ ΤΟΥΤΩΝΙ ΤΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ

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