a photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries across the continent
Announcing a special opportunity for those living in Northeastern Ohio (Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown): Through a very gracious invitation by Fr. Basil Rusen, I will be giving a presentation on Orthodox Christian Monasticism and the North American Thebaid this coming Sunday, March 12, at St Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church, in Hudson, Ohio. Join us for the …
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Featuring a gallery of new photographs from Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville NY, made in November 2016, plus three galleries "from the archives", dating from 2005 to 2015. The end of 2016 and the first weeks of the new year have been busy with the Great Feasts of the Nativity of Christ and His Glorious Theophany at …
A new gallery of over forty photographs taken at Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery is up and available for viewing and sharing. Proceed to the Holy Myrrhbearers Gallery... I am very pleased with the overall selection of images, and several in particular are early contenders for the North American Thebaid book, scheduled for publication in late 2018. Please consider supporting the …
Continue reading New Gallery: Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, in the Catskills, New York State
After several weeks of travel, and Thanksgiving week, I am getting caught up on editing and posting more images from recent monastery visits. First up, several photographs from Hermitage of the Holy Cross (ROCOR). My thanks to Fr. Abbott Seraphim and guest master Fr. Hilarion, and the several monks I was able to speak with during …
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I was deeply honored to be invited to speak about the North American Thebaid Project at the OCA's recent Monastic Synaxis. The superiors, led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, and Archbishop Nathaniel, had numerous excellent questions and insights, all of which further improve the Thebaid Project, and help it support monastic life even more than …
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The North American Thebaid 