EDUCATIONAL LANDMARKS IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS FROM THE PHILOKALIA: SAINTS NEIL THE ASCETIC AND MARK THE ASCETIC
EDUCATIONAL LANDMARKS IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS FROM THE PHILOKALIA: SAINTS NEIL THE ASCETIC AND MARK THE ASCETIC

Summary/Abstract: The young have always needed guidance, someone who knows life and has a profound view on life issuesand on how a young person should be. These urgings are all the more so valuable as they come fromimmaculate people who look at the world from a pastoral perspective. We can say that the advice comingfrom such people is in fact the advice meant for the young. Surely, wise words come too many timesagainst the indifference and the feeling of the youngsters who think that they know better what theyshould do and how they should behave. Passions put veils on the eyes and obstruct the ears and thesepieces of advice may not find their way inside the unripe. However, words have a special power and, ifspoken in the right way and at the right time, they may break open all barriers which we mentioned andmay unfreeze hearts. These urgings may be divided into several categories, because man needs to beprepared for life from several points of view and this preparation is made in the name of and with the helpof One only: Christ. By the Divine Pronoia, education becomes a general basic rule to man; it starts beingnurtured in early childhood and raises awareness in parents.

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