Monasticism and Marriage
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomewfrom his book, Encountering the Mystery In comparing monasticism to a vocation of freedom and love, the Orthodo...
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The Life of the True Monk
The Life of the True Monk Some weeks ago I change the image at the top of my Facebook page to the image that is at the top of this post. It is the Icon known as...
A Monk is to be Dead to the World
A monk is to be dead to the world, for by his very vocation he is called to be set apart, living a life in imitation of the angels. Whether he be praised or off...
Liturgy Schedule for Lent
St. Michael Orthodox Church and St. Columba of Iona Orthodox Monastery publishes the list of Divine Services during Great Lent. The schedule is printed be...
Russian monasteries taking a pioneering role in bringing organic food to consumers
By Anneli Ahonen in Sosnovyi Bor/Halila On the former sanatorium estate of Halila, cheese is made using methods dating back to the Middle Ages. Orthodox Monk Ga...
Engaged Monasticism
I have been writing about monastic topics for the last few years. I have been trying to develop a sense of what I have called the “new monasticism” although it ...
Petition for the Release of Archimandrite Ephraim
A petition has been started for the release of the Archimandrite Ephraim from prison in Greece. For background on this case click this link. I have p...
Hard Work
The monastic life is separated if you will into three parts; Prayer, Divine Reading, and Manual Labor. When I was a member of the Benedictine Community we...
The Gospel: Nourishment in the Wilderness
The Gospel was the daily bread of the desert solitaries. At the beginning of their monastic journey, as we see in the case of St. Antony the Great, the wo...
Snowtober
The Monastery Chicken Coop I have been offline since Saturday due to the very large snowstorm that hit New England over the weekend. We are used to snow here in...