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Zaharia Zaharou la Timisoara 2016

Archimandrite Zacharias: “My Acquintance with Elder Sophrony”

Archimandrite Zacharias, from Holy Monastery of Honourable Forerunner, Essex, England, speaks about his s...

The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart

Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)

The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured.

We’re made whole and we can turn to God with our whole being, fulfilling His commandments in a manner well-pleasing to Him.

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“Descent” as a Way of Meeting God

Archimandrite Zacharias from Forerunner's Holy Monastery, Essex, England, explains how "Descent" is a perfect way to meet God's Person

Video

Bearing the Shame of Confession..

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 

Question: In taking the steps which you have presented to us, the most difficult thing, I think, is to overcome the fear of shame. This is what I try to do in my parish. People will not come to confession although their souls are burdened and things are driving them crazy, because they cannot overcome the shame to admit their sins. How do you lead people in this direction? 

KEEP THY MIND IN HELL AND DESPAIR NOT: A Word of God for Our Generation

Archimandrite Zacharias Zakharou

This lecture, which was delivered by Hieromonk Zacharias at the Annual Lecture Series at St. Tikhon 's Seminary, September 16, 1997, has been edited by Christopher Veniamin.

Christ is the sign of God to men of every age, and his way is the only true one which leads to the eternal Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Fr Zacharias Homily Monastery Church

 

2.8.14. + St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary

Fr Zacharias Seminary Lecture

2.9.14 St. +  Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary

Fr Zacharias Evening Lecture

2.7.14  +  St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary

The Enlargement of the Heart

"Be ye also enlarged in the Theology of Saint Silouan the Athonite and Elder Sophrony of Essex

A disciple of Elder Sophrony (of blessed memory), who was a disciple of St. Silouan the Athonite. Presently, Fr. Zacharias is a monk in the Monastery founded by Elder Sophrony: The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights by Maldon, Essex, England."

A talk given on February 15th 2014 at the St. John the Compassionate Orthodox Mission in Toronto

The spiritual heart

VIDEO: Archimandrite Zacharias 

The heart’s the inner person, it’s the centre of our personality. Where we can encounter God, where we can make our free choice concerning Him, that’s the centre of our personality. And we can’t find our heart by our own efforts. We find our heart, because we have to say that the aim of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart. Because then we’re healed, we’re whole and we can turn to God with our whole being, fulfilling in a Godly manner the commandment where He asks us to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our being.

Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou), of the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, Essex, in an interview with Pemptousia, speaks of finding the heart, and its importance in Orthodox spiritual life.

Article published by www.pemptousia.com

Buddhism and Eastern Asceticism Compared to Orthodox Christian Asceticism

(Archimandrite Zacharias of Essex)

It is unfortunate that there is widespread confusion, not to mention delusion, in the inexperienced, whereby the Jesus Prayer is thought to be equivalent to yoga in Buddhism, or 'transcendental meditation', and other such Eastern exotica. Any similarity, however, is mostly external, and any inner convergence does not rise beyond the natural 'anatomy' of the human soul. The fundamental difference between Christianity and other beliefs and practices lies in the fact that the Jesus Prayer is based on the revelation of the One true living and personal God as Holy Trinity No other path admits any possibility of a living relationship between God and the person who prays. 

The mystery of man’s heart

Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)

http://pemptousia.com/video/the-spiritual-heart/

All the ordinances of the undefiled Church are offered to the world for the sole purpose of dis­covering the ‘deep heart’,[1] the centre of man’s hypo­s­tasis. According to the Holy Scriptures, God has fashioned every heart in a special way, and each heart is His goal, a place wherein He desires to abide that He may mani­fest Himself.

Since the kingdom of God is within us,[2] the heart is the battlefield of our salvation, and all ascetic effort is aimed at cleansing it of all filthiness, and preserving it pure before the Lord. ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life’, exhorts Solomon, the wise king of Israel.[3] These paths of life pass through man’s heart, and therefore the unquenchable desire of all who ceaselessly seek the Face of the living God is that their heart, once deadened by sin, may be rekindled by His grace.

The heart is the true ‘temple’ of man’s meeting with the Lord. Man’s heart ‘seeketh knowledge’[4] both intellectual and divine, and knows no rest until the Lord of glory comes and abides therein. On His part God, Who is ‘a jealous God’,[5] will not settle for a mere portion of the heart. In the Old Testament we hear His voice crying out, ‘My son, give Me thy heart’;[6] and in the New Testament He commands: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.’[7] He is the one Who has fashioned the heart of every man in a unique and unrepeatable way, though no heart can contain Him fully because ‘God is greater than our heart’.[8] Nevertheless, when man succeeds in turning his whole heart to God, then God Himself begets it by the incorruptible seed of His word, seals it with His wondrous Name and makes it shine with His perpetual and charis­matic presence. He makes it a temple of His Divinity, a temple not made by hands, able to reflect His ‘shape’ and to hearken unto His ‘voice’ and ‘bear’ His Name.[9] In a word, man then fulfils the purpose of his life, the reason for his coming into the transient existence of this world.