Monastery News
This past May, Hieromonk Basil and Riassophore-monk Ephraim traveled to St. Tikhon’s Monastery for the annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage. Our monks arrived several days early to participate in the festival choir conducted by Benedict Sheehan. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou), prolific author and disciple of St. Sophrony of Essex, was also present for the weekend, as was the “Hawaiian” Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.
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This past Great Lent, during the week of the Veneration of the Cross, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) visited the monastery to tonsure Monk Ignaty to the Great Schema.
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Glory be to God, we are happy to announce that the monastery’s $200,000 matching funds campaign goal was significantly exceeded! Generous patrons, friends, and benefactors contributed a total of $224,073 during the fifty days between Pascha and Pentecost. Along with previously donated funds, these new gifts and the matching dollars from anonymous benefactors permit us to continue construction on the new church for several more months. While we have a long way to go to finish and furnish this beautiful new church here on the Little Mountain, we have firm faith that the Lord and his Mother "Quick to Hear" will continue to bless the labors and offerings which have already brought us this far.
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On Wednesday, May 24 – the Apodosis of Pascha – the grace of God was poured out with overwhelming abundance on the brotherhood of Holy Cross Monastery. Our beloved First Hierarch Metropolitan Nicholas presided at a Hierarchal Divine Liturgy, which was...
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Abbot Seraphim and the Holy Cross brotherhood wish to extend congratulations to His Eminence, Metropolitan Saba, on his enthronement as primate of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America.
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