Monastery News

One of the defining features of Lent is the penitent prayer of St. Ephraim. It is said at every weekday service, even at the smaller office of the hours. Of the three petitions that comprise this short prayer, this final one is the most important. As the parable of the Publican and Pharisee teaches us, we can have all the virtues, but if we do not see ourselves as sinners, we are spiritually dead. By stretching us to our limits, the season of Lent trains us to see ourselves as we really are—sinners.

During the days of the Nativity Fast, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) visited the monastery to tonsure Nun Theodora to the Great Schema. On the afternoon of the feast day of St. Herman of Alaska, Vladyka Jonah and the Holy Cross brotherhood...

We invite all of our readers to watch this beautiful update from His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas on the renovation of the ROCOR Synod building in Manhattan.