Monastic Devotion
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos.
With the assistance of God, we have proceeded with the publication of the first volume of a new four-volume series entitled: Saint Paisios the Athonite: Counsels on Monastic Life. The previous six-volume series, which was published during the years 1998 to 2012, under the title: Saint Paisios the Athonite: Spiritual Counsels, contains topics which relate to both lay people and monastics. The four volumes of the new series refer, par excellence, to the monastic life and particularly to "the coenobitic life, a life of patient endurance." (See Saint John Climacus, Scala Paradisi, Gradus 1, PG 88, 641D.)1 In general terms, the subjects are as follows: setting out for the monastic life; the struggle of the novice; monastic tonsure and monastic virtues; the programme and the operation of the coenobium; the spiritual family of the coenobium and the place of the Geronda or the Gerondissa in it; prayer, study, ascetic discipline, such as fasting, prostrations, vigils, and so forth, and the diakonia (tasks and duties) of the monastics.(From the Prologue of the book).
Pages: 308
Size: 15 x 21 cm.
