Poiana Teiului, Neamț Country, Romania, March 27, 2025
Photo: Atitudini
On February 8, the abbot of the Orthodox Church in America’s Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in Cañones New Mexico participated in a conference at Petru Vodă Monastery in Romania.
Abbot Silouan (Lightle) gave a talk entitled, “The Passion of the Romanian Saints in Communist Prisions” as part of the conference, “Fr. Justin Pârvu and 
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In his talk, Fr. Silouan spoke about how the Orthodox Church knows God experientially, while drawing a parallel between the Romanian saints of the prisons and the Athonite hesychast saints.
Watch his talk:
Petru Vodă Monastery was founded by the revered Romanian Archimandrite Justin (Parvu)Justin (Parvu), Archimandrite
“>Elder Justin (Pârvu) in 1991, and it was there that he reposed in 2013.
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