Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, Volume II

Publication Data: Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2000
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 721
Dimensions (l × w × h): 20.9 cm × 13.4 cm × 1.9 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒938635‒56‒5

   
By Archimandrite Cherubim (Karambelas)

Volume II of Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos

“The second half of Archimandrite Cherubim’s book of brief monographs of Athonite personalities comprise only three Lives by his own pen. The other two were added in the same spirit by the original Greek publisher. The St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood has added photographs, appendices, and an index for both volumes, in hopes of making the contemporary phenomenon of ancient ascetic exploit more available for the God-seekers of today. Most of the fathers were adherents of the ‘old’ church calendar, zealots in their spiritual make-up, yet stood above politics while passions raged on Mount Athos, as they still do in the Orthodox world. It would be unfair to the memory of these modern-day heroes to omit this fact, because their defense of traditional values renders moral support to those who still face the same problems.”
—“Introduction to Volume II of Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos”

CONTENTS

   INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II
   1. ELDER SABBAS THE FATHER CONFESSOR
      Author’s Prologue to the Greek Edition
      I. The Children of the Desert
      II. The Ascent
      III. The Renowned Father Confessor
      IV. The Pilgrim
      V. War with the Demons
      VI. “Make Known to Me the Ways of Life”
   2. ELDER IGNATIUS THE FATHER CONFESSOR
      I. His Spiritual Formation
      II. Fathers and Sons
      III. The Harbor of Salvation
      IV. The Light of Grace
   3. ELDER CODRATUS OF KARAKALLOU
      Author’s Prologue to the Greek Edition
      I. At the Place of Sanctification and Asceticism
      II. A Model Abbot
      III. An Exemplary Confessor
      IV. “Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant”
   4. ELDER PHILARET OF CONSTAMONITOU
      Author’s Prologue to the Greek Edition
      I. “O Lord, I Have Loved Thy Tabernacles”
      II. “O How I Have Loved Thy Law, O Lord”
      III. “For I Am Thy Slave”
      IV. “The Exposition of Thy Words Enlightens and Instructs Infants”
      V. “Thy Judgments Have I Not Forgotten”
   5. ELDER GERASIM MENAGIAS
      I. From Birth to Rebirth
      II. “Life is Blessed for Those Who Dwell in the Wilderness, For They Fly Upon the Wings of Divine Love”
      III. “On the Lampstand”
      IV. “The Righteous Live Forever”
APPENDICES
   Appendix 1: An Event That Occurred During the Sebastopol Campaign
   Appendix 2: The Blind Confessor Ignatius: A Clairvoyant Elder
   INDEX