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The Jacob's struggle (fresco) - Ocrida
The Jacob's struggle (fresco) - Ocrida
Bose, 9 - 12 September 2009
17th International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality
In collaboration with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow

17th International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality

Bose, 9 - 12 September 2009

SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE
IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITION


Wednesday 9 September

9:00 am

OPENING SESSION

The Spiritual Struggle: Biblical Approaches
ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose

The Theology of Asceticism
? FILARET OF MINSK-SLUCK, Minsk

4:00 pm

Discernment and Struggle against Thoughts
in Russian Ascetic Tradition
? AMVROSIJ OF GAT?INA, Sankt-Peterburg

Sorrow and Tears: Body, Soul, and Spirit
(St John Climacus and the Sinaite Tradition)

IOUSTINOS SINAITIS, Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai

 

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Thursday 10 September
9:00 am

The Struggle for Prayer: St Isaac the Syrian
ANDRÉ LOUF, Mont-des-Cats

The Struggle for Charity: St Maxim the Confessor
ANDREW LOUTH, Durham

4:00 pm

 

Spiritual Struggle and the Dangers of Extreme Asceticism
VASSILIS SAROGLOU, Louvain-la-Neuve

Formation in the Spiritual Struggle Today:
Greece and Bulgaria

- Ig. IAKOVOS, Petraki Monastery (Athens)
- ? GRIGORIJE OF VELIKO TARNOVO, Veliko Tarnovo

 

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Friday 11 September
9:00 am

The Exchange of Spiritual Gifts
- HERVÉ LEGRAND (Paris)
- ANTONIO RIGO (Venice)

Resistance to Evil and Healing:
Luke of Simferopol

VASILIJ MARUŠ?AK, Simferopol

4:00 pm

 

The Body in the Spiritual Struggle: “Gastrimarghia” (Gluttony)
Fr. JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, Bath

 

Formation in the Spiritual Struggle Today:
Serbia and Russia

- ? PORFIRJE OF JEGAR, Monastery of Kovilj (Novi Sad)
- Ig. PETR MEŠ?ERINOV, Danilovskij Monastery (Moscow)

 

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Saturday 12 September

9:30 am

Spiritual Struggle for Church Unity
? GEORGE OF BYBLOS, BOTRYS
AND MOUNT LEBANON, Broummana

The Spiritual Struggle in the Contemporary World
? KALLISTOS OF DIOKLEIA, Oxford

CONCLUSIONS

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"If we are asked to share
the spiritual struggle of the ascetics of every age,
we must be aware that this struggle
is nothing else than the result of another much deeper reality:
Christ's love."

(Mgr Emilianos Timiadis)

 

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