Ефрем Филофейский. Моя жизнь со старцем Иосифом

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Elder Ephraim of Philotheia. My life with Elder Joseph. M. Akhtyrsky Holy Trinity Monastery 2012 496 pp. hardcover, enlarged format.

The personality and teaching of the greatest Elder of the 20th century, Joseph the Hesychast, is vividly captured in the memoirs of his student and successor Archimandrite Ephraim, pro-abbot of the Philotheus monastery on Mount Athos, creator and confessor of Orthodox Greek monasteries in America, the most revered Elder of our time. For the first time, the image of the Venerable Elder Joseph and his science about the monastic way of life and salvation are revealed to the reader in such completeness. The book provides answers to the main questions of spiritual life for Christians. In 2008, a book of memoirs by Elder Ephraim of Philotheus, “My Elder Joseph, Hesychast and Cave-Maker,” was published in Greece. It became an event in the spiritual life of Orthodox Greeks. Everyone bought it, everyone talked about it, in all monasteries the book was read during meals. There is nothing surprising. Elder Joseph the Hesychast, as is becoming increasingly clear, is the most outstanding personality in the spiritual history of the 20th century. The word of the Elder, which has come down to us in his letters to his spiritual children, is in no way inferior to the word of the great holy fathers. And this is possible only when the life of the ascetic is not inferior to the life of the great saints. In the published memoirs, his personality, life and teaching were revealed with such completeness, depth and height that they left no doubt among those who gave Elder Joseph the palm of primacy among spiritual teachers of recent times.