Monastery News
By the grace of God, in the past year we have gotten significantly closer to completing the new church. In particular, the new trapeza (monastic dining hall) and kitchen on the lower level are nearly finished, with the plumbers and electricians installing the commercial kitchen equipment at the time of this writing.
The Lenten Spring is once again upon us, and with it the promise of renewal. In the dead of winter, the vibrance and vitality of spring seem impossibly far off. And yet underneath its frozen surface, the earth stirs and strives irresistibly toward its yearly resurrection.
You may now submit the names of departed Orthodox Christian whom you wish the monks to commemorate daily during Great Lent at the many pannykhidas, litias, and Divine Liturgies.
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On the week of the patronal feast of Holy Cross Monastery, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Archimandrite Seraphim and brotherhood were honored to receive an archpastoral visit by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen). On Thursday September 26th, His...
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dFriends of the monastery Fr. Alexander Koranda and Fr. Nikolai Lochmatow accompanied the Chicago Tikhvin Icon on an aerial blessing of Chicago and the surrounding region. From the OCA Diocese of the Midwest: CHICAGO, IL [DOM] – In commemoration of...
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