Feast Day: August 16th
The Life of Saint Joseph the Hesychast: “At once I was completely changed and forgot myself. I was filled with light in my heart and outside and everywhere, not being aware that I even had a body. The Prayer began to say itself within me.” …
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Prayers
Apolytikion: The offspring of Athos and the great adornment of Monks, defender of Ascesis, haven of silence and Prayer, our Father you were revealed. Through your life you showed us, Grace’s ways of Salvation, saving through your entreaties those who faithfully Pray to you. And therefore intercede with the Lord, O Righteous Father Joseph.
Kontakion: By the streams of thy tears, O Father, thou didst wash clean, and by thy sleepless Prayers thou didst make gleam, the garment of thy Soul, O Joseph; and within the incorrupt Bridechamber thou dost now exult with the Saints whose way of life thou didst follow. With them, do thou Pray that those who honour thee be saved.
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“Active love without submission cannot exist. How can you love and serve if you don’t submit to the other’s will? Every movement of active love is service.”
“Don’t fear sicknesses, even when you suffer up to the edge of death. As God is constantly present, why do you worry? “In Him we live and move.” Our struggle is in His embrace. We breathe God, we are surrounded by God, we touch God, we Mystically eat God. Wherever we turn, wherever we look, God is everywhere: in Heaven on Earth, in the abyss, in wood, in rocks, in your mind, in your heart. So doesn’t He see what you bear? That you suffer? Tell Him your complaints and you will see.. healing both in your Soul and in your body.”