September 25, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 20 Part 19 A Night at the Holy Monastery The stone slabs underneath our feet and the high walls surrounding us made our shelter look…
September 22, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 19 Part 18 The Path of Self-will The sun was cauterizing us, and there was no place to hide. My heart was beating in long…
September 19, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 18 Part 17 Pantocrator Monastery So we set off for Pantocrator Monastery. The walk was neither difficult nor tiring. The narrow rocky trail meandered in…
September 17, 2021 Fragments of Orthodoxy in English Popular Tradition “They were old men with no scholarship. They told me of their thoughts: the things they said within themselves as they sailed with the…
September 16, 2021 Trampling Over Death: Views of the Monks of the Holy Mount on Death and Resurrection On Mount Athos, reminders of death are ubiquitous, yet their perception is unusual. There have been no births here for over a millennium, yet…
September 15, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 17 Part 16 The meetings that facilitated our visit We called in at the icon shop. Behind its counter was a friendly Greek monk with…
September 10, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 16 Part 15 Skete of Prophet Elijah Tapping away with our walking sticks on the rocky path we, a band of pilgrims on Mount Athos,…
September 9, 2021 Oldest Christian Сhurch and Controversial Fresco We imagine the church as a free-standing building with domes, a forechurch, an altar and multiple icons. But have the Christian churches always looked…
September 7, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 15 Part 14 Blessing for the Journey We got off the minibus and met Father Simon, abbot of Xilurgu Skete. We exchanged greetings and asked…
September 6, 2021 Here There Be Giants In recent times, the rediscovery of the original ancient context of Genesis 6:1-4 has led to a fascination with the subject of the ‘Nephilim’,…
September 3, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 14 Part 13 “You’re Going to Xilurgu” Unloading our backpacks off the coach, I saw a driver in a minibus who was about to leave…
August 31, 2021 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and New Jerusalem – Pieces of the Holy Land in Russia In the 17th century, Patriarch Nikon (+1681) resolved to build outside Moscow the New Jerusalem Monastery of the Resurrection resembling the places of Christian…
