Monastery News
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!
On August 8-9, ROCOR’s First Hierarch Metropolitan Nicholas officiated the feast day celebrations of the monastery’s patron saint, the Holy Great-Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. Clergy from local ROCOR and Antiochian parishes concelebrated, and many local and out-of-state pilgrims made the...
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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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