Links to Sites on
Monasticism
and Eastern Christianity
Inner
Light Productions is pleased to offer you some links to other web sites you
may find of interest. These sites deal with Coptic and Eastern Orthodox issues and
monasticism, as well as some sites related to photography and art. If you would like to
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For information on Egyptian Christianity, go to "A History of Christianity in
Egypt." It has useful historical information and context on the development of
Christianity in Egypt. It also has good information on the lives of saints in Egypt and
the development of the Coptic Church. A related link you will also probably find
interesting is the home page of the Coptic
Museum in Cairo. Learn more about the Coptic Orthodox Church today!
The "St. Ephraim of
Syria Library" contains the texts of writings by and about this Desert
Father and links to other useful sites.
The "Cyber Desert" is loaded with
information and teachings about the Desert Fathers and Desert Spirituality. Marina Robb
publishes the "Philokalia Webzine" and there is a lot of good stuff there.
Be sure to check this one out!
The "Orthodox Page" contains lots of sources on
Eastern Orthodoxy and links to many other pages.
"The
Christian Activist" newspaper published a
long article on our monastery documentation project. Their site hosts an archive of articles from past issues as well as other
interesting information.
Fr. Sava, better known as the "Cyber
Monk" maintains this web site for the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren.
This is the Serbian diocese which includes Kosovo so there is much information here about
churches and monasteries that have been damaged or destroyed. It also contains a
list of Serbian Orthodox monasteries with information and photos.
For general information on the Church of Greece, this site has plenty of current information in both English and Greek. It is updated daily and has links to other good sources of Orthodox spirituality.
The "Mount Athos Home Page" contains information on each of Mount Athos’s
twenty monasteries. This page is quite well done and is loaded with useful information on
Orthodox monasticism including directions for "trekking" to the monasteries.
St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox
Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is my home parish. Our web site also
contains many other useful links to Orthodox sources.
For Orthodox monasteries in the U.S.
and Canada, this site lists locations, contacts, visitation policies, overnight
facilities, and other general information. There are also links to additional information
about Orthodox Monasticism and to monasteries that have their own web pages.
For tons of information on the Coptic
Church, this site is fantastic! It has music and loads of information on
the Coptic Church, including a number of articles written by H.H. Pope Shenouda III. This
is an excellent source for general information on this most ancient of the Christian
Churches!
For general information about Egypt and tourism/travelling throughout the
country, "Tour Egypt" is a useful
site to check out.
The "Orthodox World Links" page is
maintained as a public service by TheoLogic Systems. It provides links to Orthodox
Christian Internet sites and other key sites of interest to the Orthodox Christian
community worldwide. Many of these sites contain information about and writings of the
Desert Fathers.
The "St.
Pachomius Library of Greek Sources" also contains links to the
"Electronic Bible Society" of Wheaton College in Illinois which is putting the
entire well-known thirty-eight volume Victorian patristics collection The Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers on-line. If you want to engage in serious study of the Church Fathers, you
will find enough reading material here to keep you busy for years to come!
The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Diocese of Western America has made available
on-line the wonderful collection of the Lives of Saints called “The Prologue From Ochrid.”
Thanks to our Serbian Orthodox brothers and sisters, this is now available in its
entirety on-line! Just click on the readings for any day of the year! Speaking from
personal experience, this is a great thing to read just before going to sleep each night.
Enjoy!
THE HOLY BIBLE -- Many of the Desert Fathers had only the Scriptures to read – if
even that. Today, we have a wealth of reading material available to us, yet we are
spiritually so far below them in our prayer and spiritual life. All too often, it seems,
we end up reading everything BUT the Bible in our spiritual search! However, we should
never neglect our reading of the Holy Bible and today’s computer software makes it
easier than ever to read and study the Bible. Here are two sources for FREE downloads of
the Bible and some useful study materials (dictionaries, lexicons, etc.):
a) This King James Bible Program, written
for either Win95, Win98, or 2000, has over 12,000 topics to select from both the Old and
New Testaments. Also included are The Parables of Jesus, Matthew Henry Commentary, Nave's
Topics, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Torry's Topics, Hitchcock's Bible Names, book mark
feature, scripture search, maps, and build your own word dictionary. It has a very
attractive and user-friendly interface, too. I use this one myself and just love it!
b) There are also non-English
language versions of the Bible, as well as many other versions (besides our favorite,
the King James Version!). These folks have the Bible available in many different versions
and languages (19 in all!), as well as several good study aids. This one is also highly
recommended.
Paul Azkoul is an iconographer writing in
the Byzantine style of Photius Kontaglou. His work is quite exceptional and he
offers original works for sale on-line.
Art and
Design Links
FineArtGuide is a WWW Art
Guide and Art Resource Directory. Lots of links to other artists working in many media.
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