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I’m writing to you this week about Holy Mt. Athos, featured in a segment of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” recently and also in my new book and feature film, “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer.” Mt. Athos has only male monks, no women allowed, although it’s been said a few have been there dressed as men. …

You may have seen the recent “60 Minutes” piece on the Greek peninsula, Mt. Athos, since the last 1,200 years a holy refuge for monks and prayer, where there are only twenty monasteries.  It’s almost impossible to visit there, as the monks are in total seclusion, having left their families and the world behind, only…

Can you imagine any greater thing than to have communion with God himself, and to be wholly absorbed by him ? — Evagrios of Pontus. Chapters on Prayer. 34b. Philokalia. 1. p. 179. from my Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer colleague, V.Rev. Dr. john McGuckin’s book, The Book of Mystical Chapters, click here.   With…

For this Holy Time of Easter (Pasca) and Passover, I’ve been offering ancient prayers and writings.  Today, from St. John Chrysostom, the saint and ealry Christian father of what came to be the Holy Liturgy. “But why did He appear not to all, but to the Apostles only? Because to the many it would have…
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