Taken from "The Church at Prayer" by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra.
"Monasticism is a true society, a true communion of persons, a liturgical gathering (synaxis)... What one finds in the organization of monastic life is an example of life in heaven. And the Church takes that example and offers it to the faithful, in the same way that the Fathers did..."
Orthodox Ethos
Monastic Life as a Model for Society (excerpt)
Taken from "The Church at Prayer" by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra.
"Monasticism is a true society, a true communion of persons, a liturgical gathering (synaxis)... What one finds in the organization of monastic life is an example of life in heaven. And the Church takes that example and offers it to the faithful, in the same way that the Fathers did..."
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