Monastery News
Abbot Seraphim recently sat down with the designer of our new church, Andrew Gould, for a conversation about the spiritual significance of the church's architecture-- especially for us modern Americans living in a world increasingly characterized by superficiality.
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Something is stirring in these hills. Every weekday morning, right around 7 o’clock, the workmen come up our dusty gravel road. They rise up before dawn and drive, sometimes over an hour, just to make it out to our little hollow.
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Glory be to God, since our last update we have made significant progress on the new church. Most of the masonry work is complete, including both the exterior shell of the building as well as the seventeen interior arches and the multitude of columns which richly adorn the inner space of the church.
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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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