Comments on: Eugene Ionesco and the Elder On Mount Athos

By: Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:17:01 +0000

Amazing, and very heartening, how the Holy Spirit can use a simple hieromonk living in the desert to impact the world. I believe our monastics help keep things from falling apart.

By: Fr. Johannes Jacobse

Fr. Johannes Jacobse — Tue, 31 May 2011 22:58:03 +0000

I was in a play of his in high school but I don’t remember the name. I was the guy in the background doing jumping jacks not saying anything. Never really understood it but what did a kid know about the theater of the absurd? Liked theater though. I was on a panel called the Guthrie Teen Board at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. We ushered and got to see the plays for free, went backstage, and met some actors that made it big later on like Jessica Tandy and others. Very interesting. I was a big fan of Tennessee Williams in those days.

By: Michael Bauman

Michael Bauman — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:06:58 +0000

As a young man I was in theater school and acted in a couple of Ionesco plays. One play in particular had a significant impact on me in the direction of understanding the Orthodox approach to God (later): Exit the King. It presents the need for humans to be put off lusts and desires in order to be free, a bit of the Ladder of Divine Ascent in it. Never new he was seriously Orthodox, but not surprising either.