ELDER JOSEPH THE HESYCHAST: Struggles - Experiences - Teachings

Written by: +Elder Joseph of Vatopeidi

Published by: The Great & Holy Monastery of Vatopeidi - Mount Athos

THE LIFE:

1. Childhood and Youth
2. Initial Difficulties and Aid from Grace
3. Settlement in Katounakia with Elder Ephrem
4. The Move to St Basil and the Death of Elder Ephrem
5. The Time of Bitter Struggles
6. The Nature and Forms of Trials
7. The Discovery of the Hesychast Elder Daniel as Spiritual Father
8. The Trials Grow More Intense
9. Various Trials and Manifest Aid from Our Lady the Mother of God
10. From St Basil to Little St Anna

TEACHING:

1. On Sanctification and Dispassion
2. On Discovering the Will of God
3. On Regime and Disorder
4. On Trials and the Spiritual Law
5. The Differences between the Trials
6. The Law of Changes in Our Practical Life
7. Negligence, the Unsleeping Danger for the Christian
8. On Prayer
9. On Discrimination and Perspicacity
10. On Obedience
11. On Contemplation, and How Those Who Are Worthy Contemplate

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