Saint Silouan the Athonite series_Pentecostarion This oil extraction draws out

This oil extraction draws out some of the beneficial properties of the resin that are not present in steam-distilled essential oils

the natures of created things

traditional recipe

and at the same time of the potential for us—unworthy though we be—to enter into intimate communion with Him

Saint Silouan the Athonite series_Pentecostarion This oil extraction draws outIn the autumn of 1892 a young Russian peasant named Simeon from the province of Tambov was drawn to that ancient repository of Orthodox spirituality, Mt Athos. He had done his military service and now came to the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon to embark on long years of spiritual combat lasting until his death in 1938. Although he was unlearned and ignorant in the ordinary sense, tireless inner strivings gave him authentic personal experience of