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 …
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Market Study confirms: The Thebaid Project is Unique (Updated)
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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Doubt and the Monastic Journey
"To the reader, it will hardly sound surprising that the evil one is far from thrilled to hear that a man or woman wishes to profess monastic vows. If we imagine the whole body of the Church as an army of the faithful here on earth regarding the spiritual life, monks and nuns are like …
Inspirations
The inspiration for the North American Thebaid Photographic Pilgrimage Project springs primarily from the example of seminarian Gleb Podmoshensky, whose 1961 pilgrimage to monastic sketes and settlements across the United States, Canada and Alaska, and his photographic slide show from these visits, had an inspiring and pivotal impact on a certain young man: Eugene Rose. Gleb …
A Call for ‘Radical Monastic Renewal’ within the Orthodox Church
Nothing less "than a radical renewal and growth of monasticism within Orthodoxy will meet the crisis of the coming deluge." From 'A Festival of Celtic Orthodoxy', by Fr. Stephen Freeman, Glory to God for All Things Blog, May 12, 2016: Perhaps the most striking aspect of Celtic Christianity was the role of monasticism. The missions to …
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