The blight of “Bavarocracy”* in the Church of Greece

Anastasios

  Excerpt taken from the book: “I want to drink all of the Bosporus” by Archmandrite Dositheos. (Comments by T.F.D.)   Upon the founding of the neo-Hellenic State, Adamantios Korais’ Protestantizing “Enlighteners”, who had taken over the leadership of the land, had hastened to LOOT AND CLOSE DOWN monasteries, which were the “heart” of Orthodoxy…

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BAVAROCRACY, CHURCH OF HELLAS, IN ENGLISH, MONASTICISM, MONKS, ORTHODOXIE, PAPISM, ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ

Monasticism,Georgios I. Mantzarides Professor of the Theological School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Anastasios

The innermost spiritual sense of Orthodox Monasticism is revealed in joyful mourning. This paradoxical phrase denotes a spiritual state in which a monk in his prayer grieves for the sins of the world and at the same time experiences the regenerating spiritual joy of Christ’s forgiveness and resurrection. A monk dies in order to live,…

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IN ENGLISH, MONASTICISM, MONKS, ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ