Konstantinos Souleotis

“A Repentant Pilgrim” — Dino is the devoted son of Vasileios and Stella (of parents from Megigalla and Kavala, Greece) and brother to Paul (Apostolos) and Virginia (Evgenia). Born and raised in the heart of New York City (where their mother would take them [BY BUS!] to church every Sunday even through harsh and cold winters—Dino learned asceticism early on), then living in Nebraska & Colorado.

Beginning in 2000 he assisted in the early years of the founding of our little monastery; the Brotherhood of Saint George (Denver, CO). He endured his own various trials and temptations (re: “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” - 1 Cor 10:13).

Then we sent him to Patmos and the Grand Stavropeigic Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (place of the ascetic struggles of the New Saint Amphilochios) and to Tharri (on Rhodes, the monastery of our repentance) of Archangel Michael (founded in 1989 by Metropolitan Amphilochios, currently of Gano&Chora [Eastern Thrace - {Turkey}]). Returning to Denver, Dino then suffered valiantly through more temptations and various bodily illnesses—never losing his faith. Finally succumbing on the FeastDay of Saints Efstathios and family [google it] September 20th 2021.

“Remember me O Lord, when you come in to your kingdom.”

Based on the good upbringing from his parents, Dino was a man of faith, perseverance and endurance. Like all of us, he was aware of his spiritual and physical imperfections (I know because he looked to me as a spiritual father for many years). He strove with every ounce of his soul to live in repentance (see St Dorotheos of Gaza, “The ship upon which we should traverse the sea of life is called, ‘Repentance’“). Isn’t this really what God wants and hopes for us? That we live in repentance? Why else would He show forth the thief on the cross, in and through the Church (see Luke 23: 39-43), as the first one to enter paradise? Unlike the irreverent a disrespectful thief (who blasphemed God), the “good thief” repentantly, humbly and respectfully asked, “Remember me O Lord, when you come in to your kingdom.”

+Dino too, with all his heart, hoped to enter God‘s kingdom. We humbly ask, Remember him O Lord, in your kingdom. Amen