Prologue to the Complete Works of Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (Elder Theoklitos Dionysiatis)

By Monk Theoklitos Dionysiatis

The decision to publish [in Greek] the extant writings of our Venerable Father Ephraim the Syrian through "Perivoli tis Panagias" is certainly an inspiration from God, because his divinely inspired teaching has until now remained inaccessible to the Orthodox, not only because his works were rare in some monastery libraries, but also because the plain language of the old editions, under today's linguistic conditions, was "an enclosed garden and a sealed fountain" [Song of Songs 4:12].

Already with the "prudent and clothed" translation into the vernacular by the good and modest philologist Mr. Konstantinos Frantzolas, the divinely-illumined radiance of the sanctified heart and the enlightened mind by the Holy Spirit of the great Ephraim, become the inalienable property of the Greek-speaking Orthodox people.

A Stunning Revelation About Saint John the Baptist to Saint Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis

Hut of the Honorable Forerunner at the Skete of Little Saint Anna on Mount Athos

By Elder Theoklitos Dionysiatis (1916–2006)

The late Elder Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis (1905–1991), this divinely inspired Hymnographer of the Great Church of Christ, the modern boast of the Athonite State, at the beginning of his monastic life and journey, had suffered indescribably.

By God's grace, he was prematurely abandoned by his own elder, the hieromonk Meletios, because he wanted to join the Zealot movement in Athens.

He thus remained "by himself and most alone" - as Saint Symeon the New Theologian says - for some years to be an ascetic in the harsh and uninviting wilderness of Little Saint Anna, all alone, "alone with God." With truly divine courage, with an indomitable spirit and with divine help felt within him, he remained resolutely in the impoverished Hut of the Honorable Forerunner....