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  1. The gift of tears
  2. Demons of revolt: the spirit of change in monastic traditions
  3. Want to become a monk...
  4. Desert spirituality
  5. Death to the world
  6. The ascetic podvig
  7. Call to celibacy
  8. A hard habit to break
  9. Practical questions on deciding to become a monk
  10. Decision made: now action
  11. Monastic wonderings
  12. What should I do to prepare?
  13. Obedience
  14. The ministries of monastics
  15. Finding an appropriate monastery
  16. Guidance for discernment
  17. Age limitations for monasticism?
  18. Thinking of becoming a nun
  19. True face of monasticism
  20. Self distrust
  21. Hesychasm
  22. Monk laicisation
  23. Finding a suitable monastery
  24. Illness and monasticism
  25. 'Incubation'
  26. Married saints that were once monastic?
  27. Is it the 'leaders' that people end up following?
  28. Age at entry into monastic life
  29. Monasticism and spiritual fatherhood
  30. TLC Programme about life in a monastery
  31. Men in monastery receiving antidoron before women?
  32. Having an illness and becoming a monk
  33. Greeting a monk
  34. Crossing oneself
  35. Monasticism interiorized
  36. An American monasticism?
  37. Monastic vocation
  38. How to discern a calling when you're not spiritually centered
  39. Monasticism vs. graduation
  40. How do we greet a monk?
  41. How does one define 'the monastic life'?
  42. Renewal of monasticism
  43. Proper way to greet abbess
  44. Evlogeite? Please help!
  45. Enquiries about monasticism from a person with medical issues
  46. 'Shopping the monastic market'
  47. Crossing the jurisdictional line
  48. Official title - 'abbot' or 'hegumen'?
  49. Why don't monastics eat meat?
  50. Finding a spiritual father
  51. What is the function of the cell attendant?
  52. One versus a million
  53. Father Schmemann on monasticism
  54. 'Only' seven elders in Russia
  55. Longer and shorter rules of St Basil
  56. Foreign languages in American monasteries
  57. Nun's under-cassock
  58. Monasticism at a young age
  59. The monastic significance of Luke 18.29-30: leaving things for God's sake
  60. The enemy within
  61. Monastic diet (meat-eating) query
  62. Monastic life as 'angelic image' (Ангелский образ)
  63. Why are Orthodox monks not allowed to cut their hair?
  64. Addressing a nun or abbess in a letter
  65. How much sleep, on average, does an Orthodox monk get?
  66. Monastic clothing
  67. Do monastics write letters?
  68. Charnel houses / monastic practices of burying the dead
  69. Observing the Sabbath day in monasticism
  70. Koukoulion
  71. Receiving holy communion in monasteries
  72. Remembrance of death
  73. Is homosexuality an obstacle to monastic life?
  74. Monasticism, financial instability, and family
  75. Is an education at an Orthodox seminary necessary for a monastery's (see more..)?
  76. Monastery's acceptance of people from different nationalities?
  77. Rite of monastic profession
  78. Are there modern stylites?
  79. Paramo question
  80. Monastery etiquette
  81. Making a decision
  82. Monastic diet
  83. Roman Catholic hermit priest and patristic scholar embraces Orthodoxy
  84. Geronta Pavlos of St Catherine's Monastery on Mt Sinai visits
  85. Widow(er) monastics
  86. Deciding on a monastery
  87. Monasticism and modern technology
  88. Esphigmenou monastery on Mt. Athos website.
  89. Moving monasteries
  90. Vow of silence
  91. Writings on a monk leaving their family
  92. Kissing a monk's hand
  93. Aphrahat
  94. Question about Eastern Orthodox monastacism
  95. What is 'white monasticism'?
  96. Renaming monks
  97. Monks and Facebook
  98. St. John Kronstadt's desire for celibacy