Monastery News
The world can only see death as the ultimate calamity. When the prospect of eternal life is shielded from our view, when our gaze is directed only towards this fleeting life, then the fear of death is inescapable.
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St. Paul assured his flock that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God (Acts 14:22). And like so many others in these trying times, we have had our share of tribulations in the preceding months.
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Shortly after our newsletter went out last summer, we encountered several major temptations in the construction of our new monastery church. We were alerted by one of the primary suppliers (with whom we have had a long relationship ourselves) that our general contractor had repeatedly failed to pay for materials delivered to our jobsite.
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Glory be to God, Fr. Seraphim was released from the hospital this afternoon and returned home to the monastery tonight after Vespers! We thank God for bringing our beloved abbot back to us, and we thank all the countless people who have joined together with us in prayer for his health and recovery. Please continue to keep these prayers up, as he regathers his strength and continues to undergo several related medical procedures in the coming days and weeks.
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UPDATE 1-31-22 Fr. Seraphim remains in the ICU. Thank God, his bloodwork shows that the infection has largely been fought off. He has not had any fever in the last two days, and his blood pressure is good. The pleural...
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