The Lord Is My Shepherd - The Holy Life of John David the Hermit Silouan the Athonite Monastery

Silouan the Athonite Monastery

Penthos & Passion leads the reader on the path of the authors’ prayer journey from the spirit of sorrow for sin to the comfort of joy in the knowledge of the mercy of Jesus Christ

or discovering joy in suffering

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and love are not abstract ideals but the very breath of the Christian life

The Lord Is My Shepherd - The Holy Life of John David the Hermit Silouan the Athonite MonasteryThe hermit John David (19201995) spent many years tending sheep in the mountains of Transylvania before withdrawing to the secluded hermitage of Strungari. There he embraced a life of prayer, fasting, and watchfulness. The Psalter was his constant companion, and he sought to live every moment in the presence of God. Though he lived in obscurity, those who came to know him encountered far more than an ordinary shepherd. Beneath his simple outward