I’m delighted to share on this first blog post, a poem inspired by my pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Athos over twenty years ago. My spiritual father, the late Metropolitan Nicholas of Amissou, encouraged me to go and helped make it possible. May his blessed memory be eternal. The poem depicts the first moments of my arrival at the Holy Monastery of Saint Paul, two days after my ascent of Mount Athos. There was a bit of a mishap on the descent. While I was sliding down th