Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this recording, Archimandrite Athanasios Mytilinaios (1927–2006) answers the question: why do we sometimes feel empty and deeply lonely? He explains this inner emptiness through an Orthodox Christian perspective, speaking about the absence of the Holy Spirit, vanity, spiritual struggle, purity of heart, and the soul’s search for God.

Romanian translation by Elena Dinu
Audio source: “Answers to questions", no. 20 (in Greek), November 25th, 1985 https://arnion.gr/index.php/diafora-uemata/pantiseis-pori-n-katixitiko

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