Monastery News
By God’s grace, the construction of our new monastery church has continued to go extremely well. Since our last newsletter, we have finished installing the beautiful Douglas fir timber ceilings (on both the main church as well as the porch), plastered and painted the exterior walls of the church, installed the windows as well as a number of bells in the bell-tower, and lastly, built and erected both of the domes.
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Last month, we shared the story of the cornerstone blessing for our new church that took place in May.
Now we have turned the story into a beautiful short film. It's the first in a new series of videos promoting our church construction effort. We hope you find it edifying and inspiring. If you do, please share it widely!
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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