Athos offering to a modern person. Hieromonk Kranchuk Gabriel

In the monastic communities of the Holy Mount Athos, in a dominant place is the virtue of obedience, that is, spiritual obedience to his confessor, old man. Under such a spiritual leadership, the formation of a young monk and his increase in Christian virtues are formed. The Athos monk accepts the seniority of the old man as a manifestation of the will of Christ himself. Their theme is very diverse. The reader will find in them the word about Christ, the Blessed Virgin, priesthood, mysticism, Jesus prayer, the ailments of modern youth, euthanasia, about relations between Orthodoxy and other religions. Most of these articles were published in church periodicals. The need for the publication of these articles in the form of a separate book was dictated by a sense of Christian love for Orthodox brothers and a wish to achieve perfection on the path of salvation to all Orthodox Christians.