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Travel poster for Mount Athos, featuring the Monastery of Simonos Petra (1949).
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"But there is One Who created everything out of love and wisdom and bypasses our weaknesses
and leads everything to a good end."
~From a Statement from Mount Athos, February 9, 2024
(Image via Pinterest)
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Night on Mount Athos - Nocturnal ascent on Mount Athos
by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi
Monks walk to the Mountain Monastery of Athos
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location of the Monastic community of Mount Athos, the only autonomous region of Greece
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The cliffs of Mount Athos have been home to a community of monks for over 12 centuries. Their way of life has barely changed, living lives of worship and self-sufficiency.
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"In the summer of 2023, thirteen men from Lancaster's Annunciation Orthodox Church spent thirteen days in Greece as pilgrims on the Holy Mountain. This documentary covers their journey, individual perspectives and some of the exciting encounters that they witnessed over the duration of their pilgrimage."
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“There is no better way to teach a child Christianity than to actually live it – truly and from the heart. You cannot teach what you do not live.”
- St. Silouan of Mt. Athos -
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The righteous have no sorrows that are not turned into joy, as sinners have no joy that is not turned into sorrow.
+ St. Dmitri of Rostov
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In this age of gender fluidity, the 1,000-year-old ban on women, and let’s not forget female animals, in Mount Athos in Greece seems more than obsolete. Especially when you find out why.
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