Spiritual Fatherhood

Relationship of obedience and counsel offered by experienced pastors and elders (startsi).

About this path

Practices that purify the heart and guard the mind in Christ.

More from the Ascetic and Spiritual Life track.

Voluntary abstinence from foods, passions, and self-will to cultivate watchfulness, repentance, and charity.

Daily pattern of psalms, the Jesus Prayer, and intercessions developed with guidance from a spiritual father or mother.

Monastic practice of disclosing logismoi to a spiritual guide for healing and humility.