If There is Life I Want to Live. E-book. Formato EPUB Metropolitan Of Mesogaia And Lavreotiki Nikolaos   -  Michael The Choniatis, 2018  - 

I began to write it all down when I was on Mount Athos, during a period of complete solitude, while staying at the kathisma or monastic dwelling of St John the Theologian, near the small harbour of Simonopetra Monastery. I completed it later when I was staying on the island of the same St John, on Patmos, in Kouvari. Both, places of quietude and spiritual seclusion. Places of prayer. In all I only needed a few days. My sole companion was the noble disciple of love, St John. The one who truly loved and was indeed loved by Christ. The text would only be the fruit of love and quietude; it is a fruit of the desert. I would say the fruit of prayer, but I fear that this might be considered an exaggeration. The questions – I chose one hundred to make a round number – and the dialogues are all authentic. The people are also real, although of course the names have been changed. On the other hand I have not recorded the whole discussion, but I have selected certain questions. All this is not so important. What really matters is for human nature and the person of the true God to be revealed clearly and truly through the whole discussion. Nothing else in this life matters more.

Investing in the Kingdom of God. E-book. Formato EPUB Metropolitan Of Mesogaia And Lavreotiki Nikolaos   -  Michael The Choniatis, 2018  - 

If only we could invest a moment in the Kingdom of God and realise that the returns are extremely high. So high that in the Kingdom there is no time, no fear, no inhibition, inferiority, insec urity, guilt – none of those things which trouble us in this life. This is the blessing of God’s freedom. It is this which we must bring to life within us here on earth, until each one of us will be able to change from being temporal to being eternal, from being only human to being spiritual.

When God Is Not There. E-book. Formato EPUB Nikolaos   -  Michael The Choniatis, 2018  - 

This book records simple events and conversations, all the while grappling with difficult questions. In all this, we see the human struggle to discover the person of God when that is veiled by the logic of this world, our limited understanding, and the arrogant pretensions of human littleness. The book engages intensely with complex and difficult issues, which understandably concern us all, but which leave us confused and at times scandalised. What it does not do is give any direct answers, or try to persuade the reader through logic or impressive arguments. Its aim is to convey the sense of the discreet yet persuasive presence of the true God precisely in situations where He is not visible: in pain, in disability, in the tragedies of life, in inexorable death, as this comes across in true events and is reflected in the lives of real people.