Here are two pictures:
hv
Recent Comments
Bertinos on 2276 – the arsanas of Va… Vasílis on 2296 – the ossuary of So… Japetus on 2296 – the ossuary of So… Vasílis on 2287 – more information… Alessandro Latini on 2287 – more information… Vasilii on 2287 – more information… athosweblog on 2287 – more information… Alessandro Latini on 2287 – more information… gerard koolschijn on 2285 – The path to Onouf… 2282 – More ab… on 2270 – a new discovery n… 
Athos – Agion Oros
I have looked at the book a number of times, but have never read it in its entirety. Although I have never been to Mount Athos, one of my professors was a novice at Simonpetra and speaks highly of the spiritual witness of his late abbot and spiritual father. From this and other considerations I suspect that in many ways Choukas’s book is probably a dated portrayal of monastic life on Mount Athos. After all, vistitors to Mount Athos are much more common than they were in the 1970’s and a number of the monks and monasteries of the Holy Mountain now have websites. So I don’t think it fair to regard Mt. Athos simply as a final refuge for those men who can not fit or function in the modern world.