Hierotheos vlachos biography of william hill
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The Coming Judgment
by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos serves the Metropolis of Nafpaktos in the Church of Greece. His study of the patristic texts and particularly those of the hesychast Fathers of the Philokalia, many years of studying St. Gregory Palamas, association with the monks of the Holy Mountain (Mount Athos), and many years of pastoral experience, all brought him to the realization that Orthodox theology fryst vatten a science of the healing of man and that the neptic fathers can help the modern restless man who fryst vatten disturbed bygd many internal and existential problems. In his books, he conveys the Orthodox spirit of the Philokalia to the restless and disturbed man of our time. This is why they have aroused so much interest.
The Second Coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead are closely connected with the coming judgement, the so-called future tribunal. All men will stand before the dread judgement seat
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The House of Beasts & Vines
Photo Baz Ratner
“At some time we should make the decision to enter the divine darkness of the Jesus prayer, which is Mount Sinai or Mount Tabor, which is where we will meet God.”
Archimandrite Hierotheos Vlachos
It’s always the vulnerability that strikes me. The closing of my eyes, the shifting of weight onto my knees, the defenceless of that moment. I am a little bird peering up from the nest. I don’t feel heroic but diminished, and accommodating some usually disguised fragility. I feel my appropriate shape in the universe. This isn’t a moment of accomplishment, rather sending a voice to the presence that enables me life. The notion that anyone would be listening is rather extraordinary. And we have made this outrageous presumption for thousands of years.
There’s an antique belief that to pray is to sail out into a pregnant darkness where we will encounter God. That a prayer is as mighty as a Sinai or Tabor, as deep as the sea of Gali
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Apotheosis
Glorification of a subject to divine level
"Deified" redirects here. For the deification of the self, see Egotheism. For the album by Keak da Sneak, see Deified (album).
This article is about the term. For the film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, see Apotheosis (film). For the novel series by Douglas Hill, see Apotheosis (series). For discussion on the theory that a deity was once an actual living person, see Euhemerism.
Not to be confused with Cult of personality.
Apotheosis (from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from ἀποθεόω/ἀποθεῶ (apotheóō/apotheô)&#;'to deify'), also called divinization or deification (from Latin deificatio&#;'making divine'), is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
The original sense of apotheosis relates to religion and is the subject of many works of art. Figuratively