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Saint Paisios the Athonite

By the Holy Hesychasterion "Evangelist John the Theologian"

Size: 6" x 9" (15.2 x 23 cm) 

Pages: 574

Binding: Softcover 

From the Prologue: 

"With the help of God, and after the work of a great many years, our Sisterhood, propelled by our sacred obligation toward the Saint, who for twenty-eight years had guided and benefited us in so many ways, presents the publication of the Biography of Saint Paisios the Athonite. 

We also had the great blessing of gaining some insight into the immeasurable love the Saint had for God, his monastic exactitude, his absolute self-denial and the power of his fervent prayer. Having lived in such close proximity to him, we personally experienced his holy simplicity and his profound humility, his God-illuminated discernment, his noble love for each person, but also his deliberate efforts to conceal his virtues. 

We therefore deemed it our obligation to utilize all the materials - both information and knowledge bequeathed to us in order to compose, to the best of our ability, the biography of the saintly Elder. The contents of this Synaxarion stem primarily from our communication with the Saint - from the notes we had kept during the gatherings of the Sisterhood and the private conversations we had had with him; from his letters not only to the entire Sisterhood but also to each Sister; from the numerous verbal and written testimonies which had been entrusted to us by clergy, monks and lay-people who had met the Elder' as well as from information that had been gathered from the on-site research we had conducted in some of the areas where the elder had lived and struggled. Understandably, it was impossible to include the enusuing material in its entirety, as it amounted to thousands of pages, and we wanted to avoid an overly extensive volume of biography. As a result, it became necessary to carefully..." 

From the Contents:

- Prologue-

- Chapter One: From Pharasa to Homeland of Greece

- Chapter Two: The Years of his Childhood and Youth

- Chapter Three: Military Service

- Chapter Four: Preparations and Temptations

- Chapter Five: At the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou

- Chapter Six: At the Holy Monastery of Philotheou 

- Chapter Seven: At the Holy Monastery of Stomion

- Chapter Eight: At God-trodden Mount Sinai

- Chapter Nine: At the Skete of Iveron of Saint John the Forerunner

- Chapter Ten: At Desolate Katounakia

- Chapter Eleven: At the Kelli of the Precious Cross

- Chapter Twelve: At the Kelli of Panagouda

- Chapter Thirteen: From Earth to Heaven

- Maps 

Athonite Fathers and Athonite Matters

By Saint Paisios the Athonite

Size: 5.6" x 8" (14.4 x 20.5 cm) 

Pages: 254

Binding: Softcover 

From the Prologue: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

I am much troubled by my conscience for not having kept detailed notes about the virtuous Fathers who had lived in those latter years, about whom I had learned from other, devout Elders when I was a novice monk, just as I am also troubled by my great negligence for not having retained, at least in my memory, all the divine events which those holy Elders had experienced, and which they recounted to me, with great simplicity in order to help me spiritually. 

The Fathers of those days had great faith and simplicity. Although most of them were basically illiterate, they nevertheless received constant divine enlightenment because of their humility and fighting spirit. While in our own days, knowledge has increased, unfortunately, logic has shaken people's faith from its foundations and filled their souls with questions and misgivings. For this reason, it follows that we should be deprived of miracles, because miracles are experienced and cannot be explained by logic. 

The terribly worldly spirit which prevails in modern man, who has directed his every effort towards how to live better, with greater ease and less exertion, has also, unfortunately, affected most spiritual people ....

Spiritual Counsels, Volume IV: Family Life

By Saint Paisios the Athonite

Size: 6" x 9" (15.3 x 23 cm) 

Pages: 307

Binding: Softcover 

From The Young Facing the Two Roads of Life:

"Married life and Monastic life are both blessed

- Geronda, what should one say to young people who ask if monastic life is superior to married life? 

- To begin with, one must help them understand what the destiny of man is and what the meaning of life is. Then one can explain to them that both roads indicated by our Church are blessed, because each can lead them to Paradise if they abide by the will of God. Let's say that two people start out on a pilgrimage. One takes the bus using the public road and the other goes on foot along some trail. Both have the same goal. God rejoices in the one and marvels at the other just the same. It would be bad if he who goes on foot criticizes the other who takes the bus, or vice versa. 

Those young people who may be thinking about monasticism should know that the mission of the monk or the nun is a very high calling; it is to become an angel. In the next life, in Heaven, we will live like angels, Jesus Christ had tod the Sadducees. This is why some very philotimo-filled young people become monks or nuns and embark on their angelic life from this present life. 

But let no one think that those who go to the monastery will be saved simply because they became monks or nuns. Each person will account to God about whether he sanctified..."

From the Contents:

- Preface 

- The Young Facing the Two Roads of Life 

- Part One: Supporting the Family

- Part Two: Parents and their Obligations

- Part Three: Children and their Obligations

- Part Four: Spiritual Life

- Part Five: The Trials in our Life

- Part Six: The Death and the Future Life 

Spiritual Counsels, Volume III: Spiritual Struggle

By Saint Paisios the Athonite

Size: 6" x 9" (15.3  x 23 cm) 

Pages: 326

Binding: Softcover 

From Part One, The War of Thoughts:

"Good and Evil Thoughts - The Power of Good Thought 

- Geronda, in the Old Testament, in the book Maccabees IV, it is written: For devout thought does not uproot the passions but is their antagonist. What does this mean? 

- The passions are deeply rooted in us, but the good, devout thought helps us to not become enslaved to them. When man brings only good thoughts to mind and establishes a strong and healthy spiritual state, then the passions lie dormant, and it is as if they did not exist. In other words, devout thoughts do not uproot the passions altogether, but combat them and can defeat them. I think the author is describing what the Holy Seven Young Men, their mother Saint Solomone and their teacher Saint Eleazar were able to endure by having good and devout thoughts, and thus is indicating precisely the extent of the power of good thoughts. 

One good thought is equal to a very long vigil! It is very powerful. Similar to how certain new weapons can intercept a missile at its base by using laser beams and prevent it from being fired, so good thoughts can also anticipate and immobilize evil thoughts at the devil's "airport", where they are launched from. This is why you must struggle as much as you can - before the tempter devil has a chance to plant evil thoughts in your mind - to plant good thoughts and transform your heart into a flower garden, so that your prayer will be enriched..."

From the Contents:

- Preface

- Part One: The War of Thoughts 

- Part Two: Righteousness and Injustice 

- Part Three: Sin and Repentance 

- Part Four: The Evil Forces of Darkness

- Part Five: The Power of Confession 

Other books in this series: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man, Spiritual Awakening, Family Life, Passions and Virtues, and On Prayer.

Spiritual Counsels, Volume V: Passions and Virtues

By Saint Paisios the Athonite

Size: 6" x 9" (15.3 x 23 cm) 

Pages: 283

Binding: Softcover 

From Chapter One, Self-Love and Its Consequences:

"All the passions are borne of self-love

- Geronda, what is self-love? 

- Self-love is to do the will of the old man within you, that is, to love that old man within. Gluttony and egoism, obstinacy and envy - all have self-love as their source. And so you see that one person seeks to accommodate only himself out of self-love, without any regard for others. Another person makes meticulous arrangements for his food, his sleep, so that nothing disturbs his well-being. Another desires to be taken into account, to be held in esteem; if he is slighted in the very least, if he doesn't get his way, he reacts badly. He thinks "Why aren't they taking me into consideration? I'll show them!" Indeed, self-love is a terrible thing!

- Geronda, how can anyone say, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long? 

- If he sacrifices his will for the other's sake. The will contains our self within it; it has self-love. Whoever doesn't investigate whether that which comforts him also comforts someone else, but instead, starts by making demands like: " I want this; I want that," or "Why didn't you do this for me? Why didn't you give that to me?" will, in the end, be found to have directed by the devil. 

- There are some people, Geronda, who cannot be at peace unless they get their way. 

- How can they ever find peace since they place their self in what they want? If one places his self in all the things he wants, can he also have room for Christ? When he does not have his own self, and has, instead, the One, the most important that is, Christ, then he has everything. One who doesn't have Christ has nothing. If a person throws away his own self, God will give him everything in.."

From the Contents:

 - Preface

- Section One: The Passion

- Part One: Self Love: The Source of Passions

- Part Two: Pride the Root of Evil

- Part Three: Condemnation, the Great Injustice 

- Part Four: The Children of Self-Love and Pride

- Section Two: The Virtues 

- Part One: Humility the Singular Virtue

- Part Two: Spiritual Love 

- Part Three: Nobility and Philotimo

- Part Four: Children of Love and Humility 

- Epilogue: The Good Restlenssness

- Index 

Other books in this series: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Struggle, Family Life, and On Prayer.

Spiritual Counsels, Volume VI: On Prayer

By Saint Paisios the Athonite

Size: 6" x 9" (15.3 x 23 cm) 

Pages: 314

Binding: Softcover 

From Chapter One, Prayer is Conversation with God:

"Blessed are those who have tuned into the Heavenly Station 

- Geronda, what does prayer mean to you? 

- I send a signal; I ask for help. I continuously ask for help from Christ, from Panaghia, from the Saints, for myself and for others. If I do not ask for help, it will not be given to me. 

I remember a time during the Greek Civil War when one thousand, six hundred guerrillas had closely surrounded us. All together, we were but one hundred and eighty soldiers barricaded behind an outcropping of rock. If we were to have been captured, they would have killed us. I kept trying to set up an antenna for the wireless in order to contact Central. I could not; the antenna was repeatedly cut down by the incessant gunfire. The captain shouted at me, " Leave that alone! Come here! Help us heave a crate or tow of grenades!" At the same time, he kept making the rounds of the machine-gun nests to inspect them. As soon as he left, I ran back to the wireless. Until he gave the orders, I kept trying to set up the antenna and also running back to help, so that he would not shout. I finally set up the antenna with a shove and a stick, and managed to make contact. I said but two words. That was it! In the morning, the air force came and saved us. Is it a small matter that one hundred and eighty men surrounded by one thousand, six hundred soldiers were, in the end, saved? 

That incident made me realize that great mission of the monastic: to help through his prayer. Worldly people say, "What do monks do? Why don't they come into the world and help the community?" It is as if they were telling a wireless operator, "What are you doing there with the wireless? Drop the wireless.."

From the Contents:

- Prologue 

- Part One: Communication with God

- Part Two: The Struggle for Prayer

- Part Three: Our Intercessors Before God

- Part Four: "Ask and it Shall be Given You"

- Part Five: The Jesus Prayer and Nepsis

- Part Six: The Life of Worship

- Part Seven: The State of Doxology

- Appendix 

- Index 

Other books in this series: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Struggle, Family Life, and Passions and Virtues.

Spiritual Counsels, Volume II: Spiritual Awakening

By Saint Paisios the Athonite 

Size: 6" x 9" (15.3  x 23 cm) 

Pages: 410

Binding: Softcover 

From the Introduction to the Elder's Counsels:

"- Geronda, how do you see things going?

 - How do you see things going?

- What can we say, Geronda? You tell us.  

- The present calm worries me. Something is up. We haven't quite understood what times we're living in and we don't even consider that we will die someday. I don't know what will happen; the situation is very difficult! The world's fate is in the hands of a few, but God is still holding the brakes. We need to do a lot of praying with pain and love for God to intervene. We need to take matters seriously and live spiritually. These are very difficult times. Much ash and trash has fallen, there is great indifference. A very strong wind is needed to blow them away. The old timers used to say that the time will come when people will start kicking. All barriers are discarded and nothing is respected. It's terrible! Everything has become Babylon. We must pray for people to come out of this Babylonian captivity. Read the Prayer of the Three Young Men, to see how humbly they prayed; read Psalm eighty three: O God, who shall be compared to Thee? Be not silent, neither be still, O God... We have to do this, otherwise we struggle in vain. We need divine intervention. 

Now, certain European sicknesses have come into the mix and they keep getting worse. A Cypriot family man who lived in England once told me "We are in spiritual danger; I must take my family away from England." Over there you can see a father taking is daughter, a mother her son. Everyone is "crowned" in marriage, everyone is "blessed". I am ashamed to even mention some of the things that are going on. But we don't lose any sleep over it. Now, I'm not saying that we ought to take up banners and marching in protest, but we should turn our attention to the great danger ahead of us and raise our hand to God in prayer. We must defend ourselves against evil. We must put on the brakes because..."

From the Contents:

- Prologue 

- An Introduction to the Elder's Counsels 

- Part One: The Responsibility of Love

- Part Two: Struggle and Devoutness

- Part Three: Spiritual Bravery 

- Part Four: Dependence Upon Heaven

- Part Five: Spiritual Weapons 

Other books in this series: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man, Spiritual Struggle, Family Life, Passions and Virtues, and On Prayer.

Illness and the Believer - Spiritual Life Series, vol. 5 

By Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. 

Size: 4" x 6" (10.2 x 15.2 cm) 

Pages: 56

Binding: Softcover

From the Prologue: Today, despite the remarkable progress of medical science, the number of people who are ill is increasing and new diseases and illnesses continue to make their appearance. Almost every family has previously experienced or is currently going through the pain and ordeal of an illness and therefore it can be helpful to examine the causes of illness and how they may be faced spiritually so that those who so suffer may reap some benefit for their souls. As we shall see, illness, whether it is due to sin or to some other cause, is a means by which the soul can be healed and purified.

This small book examines the role of illness in the life of the believing Orthodox Christian, specifically: 1) the cause of illness, 2) the purpose and benefits of illness, 3) how to confront illness in a spiritual manner, 4) healing and the practice of medicine, 5) divine consolation. As in his other books, Father Gregorios approaches his study of illness through the writings of the Holy Fathers and Elders of the Church.

AVAILABLE IN GREEK:  "Οι Aσθένειες και ο Πιστός" 

The Vice of Envy - Spiritual Life Series, vol. 7

By Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. Translated by Fr. Michael Monos. 

Size: 4" x 6" (10.2 cm x 15.2 cm)

Pages: 68

Binding: Softcover

FROM THE PROLOGUE: All passions devastate the soul, but the most destructive of them is envy. In a sense it is the first passion, because the primary sins such as the fall of Lucifer, the sin of Adam and Eve, and Abel's murder are its offspring. Envy is born in the soul and subsequently devours it. And whereas all the passions produce at any rate some momentary pleasure in the person who experiences them, envy wastes away the soul through continual, sorrow at the happiness of one's fellow-man... This passion is usually well hidden. We must examine our souls closely in order to realize that oftentimes we take no pleasure in another's happiness, and that when things go well for him, or when he receives praise, something inside us becomes irritated.

Published by Newrome Press

AVAILABLE IN GREEK:  "Το Πάθος του Φθόνου"

By Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos.

Size: 6.7" x 9.4" (17 x 24 cm) 

Pages: 320

Binding: Softcover

The Orthodox, Faith, Worship, and Life is an Orthodox catechism, suitable for students and teachers. Structurally it is based on the Creed, and divided into three sections: 1) The Faith of the Church, 2) The Worshipping Church, 3) The Life in Christ. While its contents are extensive, and the references to the writings of the Holy Fathers are copious, it remains easy to read and understand.

This edition has been completely redesigned for its wide-release to the English speaking world. 

FROM THE FOREWORD: "Nowadays, many people in all parts of the world are discovering the Orthodox Church as the only source of life and truth able to satisfy man’s spiritual thirst and hunger. And because they feel that only in the Orthodox Church they can find the truth and the life which are offered as a divine gift by Christ, they wish to acquire a better knowledge of this true faith and to experience and participate in the life in Christ and in the Church’s worship. Christ said I am the way, and the truth, and the life: He is the truth in which Christians believe, the way which leads to life, and the true life itself.

In the pages that follow, you will find a humble attempt to come, with the help of the holy Fathers, to a closer understanding of the faith of the Church and to learn about the worshipping life celebrated in it, so that we can live the life in Christ more deeply. It also endeavors to transmit the Gospel of salvation (Eph. 1: 13) proclaimed by the holy Apostles and our God-bearing Fathers.

AVAILABLE IN GREEK: "Η Ορθόδοξη Πίστη, Λατρεία και Ζωή"