Daily program
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
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
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
The Struggle for Prayer: St Isaac the Syrian
ANDRÉ LOUF, Mont-des-Cats
The Struggle for Charity: St Maxim the Confessor
ANDREW LOUTH, Durham
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
The Exchange of Spiritual Gifts
- HERVÉ LEGRAND (Paris)
- ANTONIO RIGO (Venice)
Resistance to Evil and Healing:
Luke of Simferopol
VASILIJ MARUŠ?AK, Simferopol
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)
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
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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)