At 9 St. Mary Rd. (this is the name of the blog) there is a narration, full of photos (you will need some time to load the page, if you are not on a fast connection), of a trip in Greece and Cyprus, including some details about Athos Holy Mountain and monastic life.<\/p>\n
The narrator was thinking about becoming a monk, but he wouldn\u2019t abandon the idea of having a family and children. Thus he returns to US. \u201cMy plan was to start a computer company. I would have done this a couple years ago, had I not had plans to attend seminary. … I hadn\u2019t lived near my family for ten years\u2014since I left for college. I wanted them nearby. I thought it would be healthier than living alone, and if I could stay with my parents, I could save more to buy a house. I also knew there was an excellent church in the area, in Riverside. In fact, one of the fathers at \u039c\u03b1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u1f71\u03c2 [monastery in Cyprus] spent some time at that church. I consulted some of the monks, including the abbot, and they all agreed (to my surprise) that my plan sounded good. My parents thought so, too. When I came home, I talked with a few others and decided that indeed I would leave seminary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dI had a wonderful time in Greece and Cyprus this summer\u201d: read complete<\/a>\u00a0– Cf. The Roots of Asceticism<\/a>, Pictures of Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 9 St. Mary Rd. (this is the name of the blog) there is a narration, full of photos (you will need some time to load the page, if you are not on a fast connection), of a trip in Greece and Cyprus, including some details about Athos Holy Mountain and monastic life. The narrator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[731,157,1138,353,352,172,1140,737,1141,170,1139],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-picks","tag-asceticism","tag-athos","tag-becoming-a-monk","tag-cyprus","tag-holy-mountain","tag-modern-greece","tag-monastery","tag-monastic-life","tag-monks","tag-orthodox-monasticism","tag-seminary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}