a photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries across the continent
OCA, Holy Myrrhbearers, May 13, 2016: His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, will preside at the celebration of the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy marking the opening of the 40th anniversary year of Holy Myrrhbearers’ Monastery here on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women, May 15, 2016. The Divine Liturgy, to which the faithful are warmly invited, will …
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For some time I have been collecting videos on Orthodox Christian monasticism in North America and from around the world. I've created a couple of special YouTube playlists to share these glimpses into the monastic way, and have set them up on a special Video page. Also included is the promo video for the North …
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WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE of living in an age in which stone piled upon stone no longer remains. The last consequence of the values and and ideals exalted by Western society has been the disintegration of society. I consider it a quite positive and challenging fact to live in a culture in ruins. Those values …
Listen to the archived program at Ancient Faith Radio... +++ This looks most interesting, and will be a perfect follow-up to Alexei Krindatch’s fine new book, Atlas of American Orthodox Christian Monasteries. Mother Christophora is, for those who don’t know, the abbess of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City PA (coming up on …
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"Holiness is not something that is just about the saints, whose icons we venerate and whose lives we read about. Holiness is better understood as wholeness, made whole, or healed..." by Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering, February 12, 2016, All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, Washington: The monastic vocation is a special calling from God that …
The North American Thebaid 