Monastery News
On the weekend of September 4, a portion of the hand of the Holy Righteous Anna from Mount Athos visited Holy Cross Monastery. With the blessing of Elder Cherouvim Apostolou of the Theophileon Kellion, Skete of St. Anna on Mount...
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On Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of August, Abbot Gabriel and the brotherhood of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV celebrated the feast day of their beloved patron saint, the Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. The festivities...
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Although the brotherhood has already been using the new church for half a year, work continues to bring it fully to completion. Since our last newsletter, the cupolas and crosses have been successfully placed atop the domes of the church as well as the belltower, finally bringing the exterior of the church to completion.
Many of the laity may wonder how to make the principles of monastic life their own. The Christian life and struggle of laymen and monastics are lived out differently, but their essence is the same: the Person and work of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. His incarnation, passion, and resurrection were for every single person.
On Friday, March 14/27, the feast-day of St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of western monasticism, Riassaphore-monks David and Aaron made their life vows and were tonsured into the Small Schema by Abbot Gabriel. The tonsure of a new monk...
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