Monastery News – Page 29 – Holy Cross Monastery

Jan 04, 2019

Metropolitan Hilarion's Nativity Epistle (2019)

I offer my words of greeting, which are inspired by Christian love, on this great feast of the Nativity of Christ! With a warm heart I wish you all that profound and inalienable peace, which was heralded by the angels above the town of Bethlehem on the holy night when "the Word was made flesh" (John 1:14).

Dec 31, 2018

2019 Annual Catalog

Our latest Annual Catalog, for 2019, has been printed and is in the mail now.
View it below, or download it here:

2 comments ·Nov 14, 2018

American Chestnut Trees Planted at Holy Cross Monastery

This Friday, November 16^th, at 1:30 pm, Robert Sypolt of the West Virginia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation will plant two American Chestnut trees at our monastery.

4 comments ·Nov 09, 2018

Burial of Nadya Sill at the Monastery

On Friday, November 2nd, the funeral was served for Nadezhda Sill at Christ the Savior Orthodox Church in Wayne, WV, following which she was buried in the lay cemetery of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross.

Oct 01, 2018

Pilgrimage Weekend 2018

On Thursday, September 27^th, the brotherhood of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV celebrated their patronal feast, the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.