Temptations
This type of temptation was experienced by the young monk while living in the city and eventually made him leave
What is sexual temptation?
Who is St. Paisos?
One of the most compassionate characters in the text
Who is Father Maximos
The only Monastic Republic in the world (and only men are allowed)
What is Mount Athos?
What is the spiritual community occupied by monks
What is monastery?
Saint Silouan teaches us to do this when someone curses us. This is also one of the 5 stages of grief.
What is acceptance? "bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you”
The author of the text
Who is Kryiacos C Markides?
The 66 year old clairvoyant and teacher that Kyriacos studied
Who is Daskalos
The person who prepared the way for Christ.
Who is John the Baptist?
What is considered the equivalent of a doctor/healer in the Orthodox Church?
Who is a monk/priest.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Exposure to traditions and writings of the East, ranging from the works of Carlos Castenada and Alan Wattts to the transcendental mediation of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
What tempted Markides' to come back to his faith after being agnostic?
The name of the religions/belief systems of Marikdes in order
What is Christianity, Agnosticism, Orthodoxy
The man who felt it was his duty to teach the hermits to pray in Tolstoy's story of "The Three Hermits"
Who is the Bishop?
The religions Markides transitioned through
What is Christianity, Agnostic, and Orthodox?
Who is the origin of the spiritual methodology and it's continuation and cloud of witnesses?
Who are the Saints.
Temptation is ever present in modern life. Father Maximos says the perfect individual can keep temptation at bay through their own perseverance and will. But no one is perfect, so we need incense, chanting and these items in our aid of the spiritual life
What are icons?
Who is the man at the beginning of the text that challenges Fr. Maximos about coercing woman to become nuns.
Who is Thomas?
What are consider two of God's positive attributes that can be talked about?
What is compassion and mercy?
The people who arrived in droves for spiritual guidance
Who are Pilgrims?
What rule is followed by all monastics?
What is a prayer rule?
These demons manifest themselves as these kinds of thoughts, able to be combatted and exorcised through ceaseless prayer and spiritual devotion.
What are intrusive thoughts? Logosmi
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! In the Christian mystical tradition, called the ultimate state of ____.
What is Theosis?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! The Greek Orthodox word that refers to the heart/mind
What is Nous
The name of the spiritual journey to a holy site
What is a Pilgrimage?
The first stage of a monk or nun (before they are tonsured)
What is novice.