"There is nothing here, at the Cell – no golden domes, no beautiful lakes, no trees to shelter and soothe. Bare earth, bare sea, bare sky – the skeleton of God’s creation, the naked bones against which all else seem un-necesary details..." When I stumbled onto this blog post by Fr Seraphim Aldea it reminded …
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St. Herman Press publishes new installment for ‘The Northern Thebaid, Vol. II’
The detailed Life of St. Cornelius of Komel presented in the newly published The Orthodox Word #311 provides fresh inspiration for Orthodox monastics and seekers, as well as for a certain pilgrim with a camera... From the announcement on the St. Herman Press website (emphasis added): Vol. 52, No. 6 (311) November-December, 2016 The Life …
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Repose of the Venerable Nilus, Abbot of Sora
Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! I hope and trust we have all had a soul-profiting Lent and Holy Week, and a radiant Pascha and Easter... What better way to return to blogging on the North American Thebaid than to share the life of St Nilus of Sora, whom we just commemorated on May …
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What is a ‘Thebaid’?
What is a “thebaid”? Per the Catholic Encyclopaedia, The valley of the Nile, under Roman domination, was divided into four provinces: Lower and Upper Egypt, Lower and Upper Thebaid. The last two comprised the upper part of the valley. During the fourth to fifth centuries it was the chosen land of the monks, who by their sanctity and by the form they impressed on the monastic system greatly influenced …
The North American Thebaid 