GREETING OF THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM |
9 |
PREFACE |
11 |
INTRODUCTION |
25 |
PART ONE HIS LIFE-STORY |
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CHAPTER A YOUTHFUL YEARS - DIVINE CALL |
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Haralambos' ancestry
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31 |
The uprooting of Pontos |
32 |
Leonidas' wedding
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33 |
Leonidas' rescue from a frightening shipwreck |
34 |
An example of great soberness |
35 |
About charity and faith |
36 |
"Around your table" |
37 |
Migration again to native land |
37 |
Haralambos at the front of the stage |
38 |
Proof also of the soberness of young Haralambos |
39 |
Recreational pass-times |
40 |
With the old calendar - Most pious and simple Elias, his first teacher |
41 |
Haralambos' new spiritual problem |
42 |
Adventures with rebels, captive in Bulgaria (1941) |
43 |
Amazing rescue by Holy Great Martyr George |
45 |
Return - Leonidas kneeling before the icon stand
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47 |
The promises |
48 |
After the capture |
49 |
Leonidas' death is a holy one - Haralambos, the protector of the family |
49 |
Imitator of St Dionysios of Aegina |
50 |
In Drama - The new obstacles |
52 |
CHAPTER B FIRST STRUGGLES - GREAT SCHEMA MONK - HIEROMONK |
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Holy Mountain - Caves of Little St Anne, 7-7-1950 |
57 |
Father Thanasi - The first disheartening impression |
58 |
The next impressions |
59 |
Novice Haralambos - First trials |
60 |
The first drills |
61 |
Novice Haralambos' first experiences |
64 |
Desire for God wiped out the desire for parents |
65 |
The hell of the dark cave is transformed into paradise |
66 |
Elevation to monastic tonsure and the priesthood |
68 |
The daily program |
68 |
The daily struggle of Father Haralambos |
72 |
Return to the first struggles - Alternative solution |
76 |
The barrel that could not be lifted; miracle of obedience |
78 |
Fruit of obedience - Entry to the impenetrability of noetic prayer |
84 |
An example from another athlete of obedience |
85 |
Faith in the anadoho Elder is a holy mystery |
88 |
The tone of the Elder |
90 |
Last experiences at the huts of Little St Anne |
92 |
CHAPTER C NEW SKETE - BLESSED REPOSE OF ELDER JOSEPH |
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To Holy New Skete, 1953-59/1959-67 |
95 |
The fisherman Barba Johnny and the boat |
96 |
The blessed end of Elder Joseph (1959) |
100 |
Father Haralambos, cut off the cares |
101 |
The relative independence of the members of the brotherhood but how they helped each other |
102 |
The Elder as a spiritual father |
105 |
The Elder as a teacher |
109 |
The Elder's counsels about noetic and unceasing prayer |
113 |
"Cut off the cares" - The splendid fruit |
117 |
Clear examples of self-denial |
121 |
I am the demon of slothfulness |
122 |
Father Haralambos sees his previously departed Elder in a vision |
123 |
My first contact - The first members of the brotherhood |
127 |
Peter, the simple and guileless |
127 |
The Elder's choices |
131 |
Awareness of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist - Experiences with Elders of New Skete |
134 |
The vision of the nourishment of the living - departed |
136 |
The Elder as a spiritual father of clergy and monks |
138 |
The mishap of a monk who was not in obedience |
141 |
CHAPTER D BOURAZERI - HEADING TOWARDS THE HOLY MONASTERIES |
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To more spacious places |
145 |
Father Theoklitos - About the book "Conversations on Athos" |
147 |
With the political administrator of the Holy Mountain |
148 |
At the Athonite Ecclesiastical Academy |
153 |
Another wondrous incident
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155 |
With the fiery flame |
157 |
The palpable presence of in-dwelling grace reflected in the Elder's spiritual children |
159 |
The deluded ascetic |
161 |
A lecture about the Holy Mountain - The increase in the number of monks of the Holy Monasteries |
165 |
Heading from the Chelandarian Bourazeri to the Holy Monasteries |
167 |
Move to the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos (1975)
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168 |
CHAPTER E ABBOT OF THE HOLY MONASTERY OF DIONYSIOU -BLESSED END |
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Move to the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou |
169 |
Program |
170 |
The daily Divine Liturgies |
171 |
The Elder's work at the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou |
172 |
Last exams |
176 |
At the dependency of Monoxilitis |
178 |
The blessed end |
178 |
The corpse transferred to the holy church of St Nektarios |
182 |
Final abode |
182 |
PART TWO TEACHING |
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CHAPTER A ABOUT NOETIC PRAYER |
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Conversations about noetic prayer |
187 |
First dialogue |
188 |
Second dialogue |
195 |
Generally about prayer - Confessions from his children |
200 |
A brief treatise about noetic prayer |
205 |
A letter from the Elder to a relative |
227 |
Victorious against negligence |
229 |
CHAPTER B ABOUT THE HOLY EUCHARIST |
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About the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist |
239 |
The Elder's criteria |
243 |
And a small conversation about frequent Holy Communion |
250 |
CHAPTER C ABOUT CHARITY |
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Charity |
225 |
PART THREE EXPERIENCES AND TESTIMONIES OF HIS SPIRITUAL CHILDREN |
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Introduction |
263 |
Thoughts of His Grace Bishop Christoforos of Andidon |
265 |
Praise to a righteous man - Consolation for our souls |
267 |
Who was Father Haralambos for us - The experience of one of his many children |
273 |
EPILOGUE |
283 |
PRAYER |
285 |
GLOSSARY |
287 |