a photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries across the continent
Presented at the retreat in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of his repose, 2012 UPDATED: See also this companion article, also from Pravoslavie, featuring recollections of Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim by His Grace, Bishop Daniil, Vicar of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia, and an especially insightful talk by Hieromonk Damascene (now …
Continue reading Vignettes of a Holy Life: Reminiscences of Fr. Seraphim Rose [Updated]
This past year I've begun following photographer David duChemin. He is a wonderful photographer and I love his images, his approach. But I have been stunned at how his words about photography sound at times like Orthodox Christian Monastic and Patristic writings. I find his approach to photography to resonate very strongly with my own. …
First Saint of the North American Thebaid Saint Herman of Alaska, America’s first canonized saint, was an Orthodox Christian monk of holy life who lived in Valaam Monastery in Russia. In 1794, along with nine other monastics he was sent to Alaska to evangelize the natives there. In time St. Herman would become the sole survivor …
"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 …
Here we have a very profound and important message from St John Climacus, conveyed to us by Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg), Abbot of the Monastery of St Silouan in Sonora, California. In it he reminds us that "the Christian calling involves finding a suitable place, and suitable exercises, for living out the transformative life in the …
The North American Thebaid 