Fr. Nikon of New Skete [Mount Athos] – A journey from Western Christianity by way of Hinduism to Orthodoxy
October 17, 2016, Katerini, Greece
Knowledge from Mount Athos (WMA) Collection – S01E07
Accessible subtitles:
English – tailored after the Romanian model supplied by Elena Dinu
Fr. Nikon remembers an Englishman who was troubled by his Church and went to India, Calcutta, in the hunt for a real religious expertise. He studied on the Hindu School for 4 years, however nonetheless he didn’t discover what he was searching for…
“And the principal of the School of Theology, of that overseas faith in Calcutta, tells him: ‘If you would like one thing deeper, then go to the Orthodox’. And this was informed to him by one in all one other faith.”
After which he discovered that the Monastery throughout the road from his home is definitely the Essex Monastery…
“He was excited, he was a catechumen on the time when he informed us this, and now he’s ready to be baptized.”
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