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Purchase a copy directly from publisher and/or Amazon Books: https://www.stnilus.org/book.htm About This Book Introduction Preface Chapter One: Becoming a Monk 1. What is a Monk? 2. The Novitiate i) Whom to Accept ii) Age Limits iii) How to Evaluate a Novice iv) When to Tonsure a Novice v) The Departure of Novices 3. Renunciation of the World 4. Stability 5. The Monastic Struggle ---end of Chapter One--- Listener Support: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U5LVZ28LK275C Telegram episode with downloadable mp3: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/9676

"Orthodox Kypseli" Publications - Thessalonkia, Greece Listener support for ongoing narration projects: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U5LVZ28LK275C Telegram host episode with free downloadable mp3 files: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/9659 Become familiar with "Orthodox Kypseli" Publications: 1. The Church Fathers on Love in Truth 2. Counsels for Life: The Life and Teachings of of Father Epiphanios Theodoropoulous https://t.me/athoniteaudio/5463 3. Papa-Dimitri Gagastathis, The Man of God 4. Paternal Counsels, Volumes 1 & 2 - Father Philotheos Zervakos https://t.me/athoniteaudio/3061 5. Elder Gervasios (Paraskevopoulos of Patra 6. Practical Guide of Orthodoxy & Orthopraxia https://t.me/athoniteaudio/5672 7. The Blessed Elder George Karslides (1901-1959) 8. Miracles, Which My Eyes Have Seen 9. In General about the close of the age, the antichrist and the 2nd Coming of Christ 10. Saint Parthenios of Crete 11. Talks with Father Paisios

"Adam, father of all mankind, in paradise knew the sweetness of the love of God; and so when for his sin he was driven forth from the garden of Eden, and was widowed of the love of God, he suffered grievously and lamented with a mighty moan. And the whole desert rang with his lamentations. His soul was racked as he thought: 'I have grieved my beloved Lord.' He sorrowed less after paradise and the beauty thereof - he sorrowed that he was bereft of the love of God, which insatiably, at every instant, draws the soul to Him. In the same way the soul which has known God through the Holy Spirit but has afterwards lost grace experiences the torment that Adam suffered. There is an aching and a deep regret in the soul that has grieved the beloved Lord. Adam pined on earth, and wept bitterly, and the earth was not pleasing to him. He was heartsick for God, and this was his cry: 'My soul wearies for the Lord, and I seek Him in tears.' Thus did Adam lament, and the tears steamed down his face on to his beard, on to the ground beneath his feet, and the whole desert heard the sound of his moaning." - page 448 from The Writings of St. Silouan the Athonite as complied and edited by St. Sophrony of Essex

JOURNEY INTO THE STILLNESS OF THE DESERT Chapter 1: The Life of St. Mary of Egypt Chapter 2: The Life of St. Eugenia Chapter 3: The Life of St. Evpraxia Chapter 4: The Life of St. Euphrosyne Chapter 5: The Life of St. Thais the Harlot Chapter 6: The Life of St. Mary the Harlot Chapter 7: The Life of St. Pelagia the Harlot Chapter 8: The Life of St. Maria (Marinus) The lives of eight women saints who battled against the passions and overcame the devil, emerging from the contest as triumphant victors.The great holy women of the Orthodox Church lived ascetically in silence, fasting, and prayer and found hesychia—the deep inner stillness that leads the soul to spiritual peace and perfect union with God. Concentrating their entire being within, they made their heart heaven and lived paradise on earth, the Lord dwelling with them. They left us their lives as guides so that we could follow their footprints to the priceless peace found only in God. Published by: Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery Press - Arizona

Listener Support 2026 for ongoing narration projects: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U5LVZ28LK275C "See that ye walk circumspect, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." -Ephesians 5:15-16"Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." -St. Silouan the Athonite Chapter 17: Concerning Intrusive Thoughts and Delusions Chapter 18: Adam's Lament Chapter 19: Reminiscensces and Conversations Chapter 20 of 20: Thoughts, Advice and Observations on Asceticism Telegram host episode with free downloadable mp3 files: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/9646

Listener Support 2026 for ongoing narration projects: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U5LVZ28LK275C "See that ye walk circumspect, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." -Ephesians 5:15-16 "Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." -St. Silouan The Writings of Saint Silouan the Athonite, continued... Chapter 10: We are Children of God and in the Likeness of the Lord Chapter 11: On the Mother of God Chapter 12: On the Saints Chapter 13: Concerning Shepherds of Souls Chapter 14: Concerning Monks Chapter 15: Concerning Obedience Chapter 16: Concerning Spiritual Warfare Telegram host episodes with free downloadable mp3 files for off-line listening: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/9635

Purchase a copy of The Art of Salvation direct from the publisher and Holy Monastery: https://saintnektariosmonastery.com/The-Art-of-Salvation Homily 12: "Pain, Sorrow, and Love" from The Art of Salvation Athonite Audio is an amateur, volunteer based ongoing narration project dedicated to open source broadcast and free distribution of spoken word from literature translated into English from the Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and beyond.

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Purchase the book direct from publisher: https://saintnektariosmonastery.com/The-Art-of-Salvation "Successor divine of Joseph the great Hesychast, cohabitant of noetic prayer and watchfulness, O ascetic angel-like, Philotheou's abbot and guardian, America's enlightener, Ephraim, we honour thee as our fervent advocate." "Cease not for us beseeching, thou boast of Athonites and divine apostle of all the ends of America, O Spirit-bearing Ephraim, that Christ may send down upon us from the heavens strengthening, might, and encouragment."- Odes from Supplicatory Canon to our Venerable and God-bearning Father Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona Homily 20 from The Art of Salvation

Purchase the book direct from publisher: https://saintnektariosmonastery.com/The-Art-of-Salvation "Successor divine of Joseph the great Hesychast, cohabitant of noetic prayer and watchfulness, O ascetic angel-like, Philotheou's abbot and guardian, America's enlightener, Ephraim, we honour thee as our fervent advocate.""Cease not for us beseeching, thou boast of Athonites and divine apostle of all the ends of America, O Spirit-bearing Ephraim, that Christ may send down upon us from the heavens strengthening, might, and encouragment." -Odes from Supplicatory Canon to our Venerable and God-bearning Father Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona Homily 15 from The Art of Salvation

Book available for purchase from publisher: https://saintnektariosmonastery.com/The-Art-of-Salvation Athonite Audio is committed to redeeming the time and enlightening the darkness. Let him who has ears to hear, hear. Athonite Audio is an amateur, volunteer based ongoing narration project dedicated to the broadcast and free distribution of spoken word from homilies and books translated into English from the Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos, Greece, Russia, Romania, Serbia, and beyond. Telegram episode "Spiritual Zeal" by Elder Ephraim of Philotheou & Arizona with downloadable mp3: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/1153 Homily 28 from The Art of Salvation ICXC NIKA

Successor divine of Joseph the great Hesychast, cohabitant of noetic prayer and watchfulness, O ascetic angel-like, Philotheou's abbot and guardian, America's enlightener, Ephraim, we honour thee as our fervent advocate.""Cease not for us beseeching, thou boast of Athonites and divine apostle of all the ends of America, O Spirit-bearing Ephraim, that Christ may send down upon us from the heavens strengthening, might, and encouragment."-Odes from Supplicatory Canon to our Venerable and God-bearning Father Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona Homily 6 from The Art of Salvation

"Successor divine of Joseph the great Hesychast, cohabitant of noetic prayer and watchfulness, O ascetic angel-like, Philotheou's abbot and guardian, America's enlightener, Ephraim, we honour thee as our fervent advocate." "Cease not for us beseeching, thou boast of Athonites and divine apostle of all the ends of America, O Spirit-bearing Ephraim, that Christ may send down upon us from the heavens strengthening, might, and encouragment." -Odes from Supplicatory Canon to our Venerable and God-bearning Father Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona Homily 18 from The Art of Salvation