I feel deeply honored to have several of my images from my two-year pilgrimage to over thirty Orthodox monasteries across North America included in this important calendar, which is an annual "must have" resource for Orthodox Christians in the USA and Canada. Previous years have featured photos of Orthodox parishes, rare festal icons and frescoes, …
Category: Monasteries
Three New Galleries from California
Editing my photos has been in itself a great experience for me, to revisit my monastery pilgrimages from this summer, and rekindle the flame from these soul-stirring visits with monks and nuns who have left everything to follow Christ in the monastic life. I just finished posting three new galleries, each of which includes …
ANOTHER NEW GALLERY: St Silouan Monastery in Sonora CA
This was a very special visit for me, as Monk Ignatius and I have been corresponding off and on for nearly a decade, and I have dear friends in Cincinnati who also have strong ties to the monastery. Even on this brief visit, I was able to get a real sense of the Brotherhood's vision …
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NEW GALLERY: St Barbara Monastery, Santa Paula CA
The pace of my travels the past few weeks has been so steady as to leave no time for photo editing, but during this, my last week of travel on my western pilgrimage, I wanted to begin catching up on the many photos from California, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and now Texas! First up in this …
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A Quick Update before Alaska
I'm very thankful for all my travel plans coming together, and for my pilgrimage to Alaska (which begins later this morning!), but this has had the effect of delaying again the posting of new photo galleries for another couple of weeks. I did want to give you at least a few images before going 'off …
The North American Thebaid 