Monastery News

I extend my cordial greetings to all of you, God-loving archpastors and pastors, devout monks and nuns, dear brothers and sisters, on the great Feast of the Nativity according to the flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Today, as the Heavenly and earthly Church in conciliar unity glorifies God Incarnate, I extend my heartfelt greetings to all of you on the great and radiant feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Christ is Born!
After the Great Vigil on the Eve of Nativity, Br. Martin was clothed as our newest novice. Please pray for him, that God will grant him the strength to endure until the end.
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The people of Appalachia, with whom we at the monastery share a home in West Virginia, are a people who have been Protestant for many generations past. Though they aren’t Orthodox, and though many of their ancestors in America may never have been exposed to the Orthodox Church, they are people who, in their own way, hold a deep faith in God and have preserved many traditions that hearken back to ages past.