#Saint Joseph the Hesychast

The Greek television series Saint Paisios – From Farasa to Heaven, broadcast in February 2022 on Mega TV and Alpha TV Cyprus, is analysed as a pan-Orthodox social and cultural phenomenon, within the context of Balkan and international hagiographic cinema. The study examines the literary and documentary popularisation of the life of the Venerable Paisios of Mount Athos, the challenges of adapting a hagiographic biography for the general public, and the artistic limitations of the series in relation to both the religious and the wider audience.

The first edition of the Quo Vadis International Film Festival, held in Iași from 7 to 10 November 2024 under the auspices of the Doxologia Missionary Cultural Centre, brought recent Christian Orthodox films from Serbia, Greece, the USA and Romania, bringing together directors, actors and film enthusiasts on a platform for cultural and spiritual dialogue centred on the theme of freedom.

In a theological interview, an Orthodox abbot explores the fundamental role of prayer in the life of a Christian, beginning with the creation of man in the image of God and the Fall of Adam. Prayer is defined as the voluntary relinquishment of one’s own freedom to allow for divine intervention, whilst fasting, and the examples of Saint Gregory Palamas and Saint Joseph the Hesychast, illustrate the path to deification and salvation.