Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this audio recording, St. Sophrony the Athonite (+July 11, 1993) addresses his monastic brotherhood, reflecting on how the Absolute Being—God Himself—took on a relative form of existence, and how we, in our earthly bodies, can bear divine power.

Essex Monastery, September 30th, 1991
English translation adapted after the Romanian version of Fr. Rafail Noica, Cuvantari Duhovnicesti I (17).

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