"Blessed Are You O Lord, Teach Me Your Commandments"

"There is nothing automatic or magical about the Jesus Prayer. If we do not strive to obey God's commandments, calling upon God's name will be in vain." -St. Sophrony (On Prayer, 137) pic.twitter.com/XjWn6ppOzL

— Perry Hamalis (@pthamalis) July 23, 2021

St. Sophrony

When God speaks to man, He addresses Himself to his hypostasis, to his heart, that is, to the place where his whole being is concentrated. This dialogue is personal, and it imparts a new knowledge from on high about man’s spiritual regeneration.https://t.co/MiSlq8BtHK

— OCN (@MyOCN) July 2, 2021

The Crypt of Holy Sophrony the Athonite

The crypt of St. Sophrony the Athonite in Essex, England

Icons of St. Sophrony and St. Silouan praying at the feet of Christ pic.twitter.com/aBSx6hA2GT

— Timothy Honeycutt (@AudioScribeOW) June 10, 2021

Christ Is the Measure

When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 8:12#WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/79XCX6neFL

— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) January 27, 2021

A New Edition of His Life is Mine

A close up of the cover for the new edition of Saint Sophrony's "His Life is Mine." Available here: https://t.co/KTMonBVOxk pic.twitter.com/lOchpu3B0d

— SVS Press (@SVSPress) October 20, 2020

I Love, Therefore I Am

This critical exposition of the theology of Saint Sophrony conveys the message that Christianity is not just an academic discipline but very reality, life itself. Available in print and eBook: https://t.co/Pvmmxnkqzg pic.twitter.com/oZM14HCEWK

— SVS Press (@SVSPress) October 16, 2020

Equivocation on "Nationalism"

And why cherry-picking things from Elders when what they were saying wasn't intended to be moral theology is a mistake. An effect of gerondism?

Thoughts from Saint Sophrony on nationalism.https://t.co/0kRBbaA2VG pic.twitter.com/c8YDQ3WxPl

— IOCS - Cambridge (@IOCS_Cambridge) September 30, 2020

My desire was to establish a monastery in the spirit of Saint Silouan [the Athonite]. But to this day, I hear that my attempt is purely utopian. People tell me: "It is impossible to overcome nationalism in oneself." But then, I think, salvation is impossible. If I am a nationalist and Christian by faith, then I narrow Christ down to this concept - "nationality." You see why it is impossible for me to accept this narrowing down and why it is a great consolation for me that, although we are a small group, we are eleven nationalities! In the prayer of Silouan, who always calls us to pray for all mankind, from beginning to end, there is, of course, no nationalism. All these national divisions were the result of the Fall into sin. Nowhere do we see a Christian preaching of hatred. This means that the Christian faith doesn’t talk about the rejection of other nationalities, but about overcoming this limitation by ascending to the prayer of Gethsemane.

If ethnonationalism meant loving only those of one's ethnos the exclusion of all others then it would be a sin. But that is not how it is used by those who use it in an identitarian context.

Elder Sophrony on the Three Stages of the Spiritual Life

An Icon of St. Sophrony the Athonite by Sister Gabriela

Orthodox Arts Journal

Elder Sophrony and Elder Ieronymos of Simenopetra Canonized

OrthoChristian: Elder Sophrony officially canonized together with Elder Ieronymos of Simenopetra

Plus: The Theology and Memory of Elder Sophrony (Sakharov)

Elder Sophrony on the Jesus Prayer

original source: Eclectic Orthodoxy

I Didn't Know About This Aspect of Elder Sophrony's Life

Forgiveness (Sunday)

Elder Sophrony

Two Talks by Dr. Veniamin

The Artistic Path of Elder Sophrony

“To paint an icon is like writing a poem; one cannot add or take away a single word. In the same way the icon should only contain the necessary, not too little, not too much.” - Father Sophrony

Posted by St. Tikhon's Monastery Bookstore and Press on Saturday, March 26, 2016

Lectures by Archimandrite Zacharias

Fr Zacharias Retreat: The Enlargement of the Heart

Archimandrite Zacharias on Elder Sophrony

"Archimandrite Zacharias, from Holy Monastery of Honourable Forerunner, Essex, England, speaks about his spiritual father Elder Sophrony"

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, January 14, 2016

The Church and Scripture

"Writing about the Biblical texts, Elder Sophrony Sakharov, one of our leading modern theologians, says that even if...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, December 11, 2015