a photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries across the continent
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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Insightful and practical guidance from Archbishop Mark (Arndt) of Berlin, Germany (ROCOR). Advice to Potential Monastics, an interview with Archbishop Mark of Berlin; Pravoslavie, August 5, 2013: Why do people now go to monasteries not from an impoverished life but from a life of comfort, how can one find the right monastery, which of the holy fathers should …
My first two monastery visits went very well, with moments of quiet and wonder, and some good photographs to begin the North American Thebaid collection. Apologies for the lapse in postings, but my internet access has been greatly limited while traveling, and I am only now set up wth my new home-base wifi solution in …
The North American Thebaid is truly unique in the Orthodox Christian world. Market research reveals very few projects similar to this in scope or purpose, and nothing like it in North America. Most photo books on Orthodox monasticism center on exotic and legendary locales such as Mount Athos in Greece, or St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot …
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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 …
The North American Thebaid 