Monastery News
The 2016 summer newsletter and the Pilgrims' Guide for St. Panteleimon's Day and Pilgrimage Weekend are now being mailed out, and are available immediately for download via the provided links.
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We have added a new bulk order page to our website, which allows customers to quickly enter a large order directly from a single page. It is designed especially for our church and wholesale customers, but it can be used by anyone.
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This summer we are undertaking the construction of a much-needed work building. Most importantly, this building will include a candle workshop to replace the one destroyed in the convent fire of the summer of 2013. Additionally, it will house a commercial bakery, a centralized tool room, and a meeting room for the large monastic brotherhood. We are also bringing natural gas and water utility lines up our main entrance road.
Your Graces, Brother Archpastors, reverend fathers, God-loving monastics, dear in the Lord brothers and sisters, parishioners and worshippers of our churches throughout the world,
CHRIST IS RISEN!
On Monday, March 1, the remains of Fr. Kallistos were disinterred and carefully relocated to the monastery where Fr. Kallistos was greeted by the Hermitage brotherhood amidst ringing bells, icons, and incense, in a procession led by the monastery’s abbot Archimandrite Seraphim.
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