Monastery Musings

Our Collection of Reflections and Thoughts on Life Today.

Mother Tamara, hard at work in our Sewing Room

Antidoron Bags

A variety of Pascha Basket Cover and Tea Towel designs are available. They can be customized to make a unique,
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Sewing Room Update

The Queen of All Skete will keep alive this ancient monastic tradition crafting fine textile arts and toward this end,
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Mother Tamara, hard at work in our Sewing Room

Pascha Basket Covers and Tea Towels

A variety of Pascha Basket Cover and Tea Towel designs are available. They can be customized to make a unique,
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St. Spyridon’s Fish Meal

An account of this miracle of our beloved Saint Spyridon. This story is recorded in the works of Saint Maximus
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Service of the Synaxis of All the Holy Doctors

The saints care for both our spiritual and physical well-being. Read Gerontissa Theonymphe’s new account of her island’s most-beloved protector,
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The Harmony of Monarchy and Russian Orthodox Christianity

A little more than 100 years ago, just three days before the start of the Great Fast, Tsar-martyr Nicholas II
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The Grand Duke Wladimir Kyrillovich of Russia Book

A Knight of unblemished Russian dignity and honor … the Grand Duke completely accepted the sacrificial task of carrying out
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Saint Spyridon Notes

The saints care for both our spiritual and physical well-being. Read Gerontissa Theonymphe’s new account of her island’s most-beloved protector,
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The Borders of Ukraine

Enter in and view some of the exquisitely painted church borders of Ukraine!
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Saint Spyridon is quick to hear

An interesting excerpt from the story "It would be good to pray to Saint Spyridon Tremithus". Translated into English for
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Father John’s Holy Thursday Message

From the memoires of Schema-Archimandrite John: Reflections on Holy and Great Thursday, 2001
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COVID19 Prayer

“Metropolitan Hilarion has blessed all the laity to read this prayer while we are in the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19.
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The Queen of All Skete offers item replacements or refunds on returned merchandise. Every item we sell is carefully inspected before it is shipped. If you are not satisfied with the goods and inform us within seven days of receiving your order, we will arrange to give you a refund. Credits are issued on all returns that comply with the terms listed below:

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We are unable to give refunds for stretched prayer ropes.

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Queen of All Skete Gift Shop

445 Longshot Ln.

Rochelle, VA 22738

Pantanassa Pendant

Crafted in Greece of 925° sterling silver with 24k gold highlights. Reverse side reads in Slavonic lettering: “Rejoice Queen of All, Who Heals our Illnesses by thy Grace”
Stamped on reverse side at lower left corner, for authenticity. 

1 3/8″H (including bail) x ½”W #QOA303
$96

High-Quality Seriograph Icon (Medium)

These magnificent icons are crafted in Greece by Master Hagiographers in their Monastiraki studio. They are made using canvas on wood with a 925° sterling silver riza and 22k gold highlights. Each icon comes with a stand or may be hung using with the keyhole on the back. A certificate of authenticity is on the reverse side.

MEDIUM

7.4″X5.9″

#QOA216

$260

High-Quality Seriograph Icon (Small)

These magnificent icons are crafted in Greece by Master Hagiographers in their Monastiraki studio. They are made using canvas on wood with a 925° sterling silver riza and 22k gold highlights. Each icon comes with a stand or may be hung using with the keyhole on the back. A certificate of authenticity is on the reverse side.

SMALL

4.3″X3.5″

#QOA215

$140

Icon of the Mother of God "Pantanassa", the Healer of Cancer

The original Pantanassa (Queen of All) Icon of the 17th century is located in the Temple of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The Icon revealed itself as a healer of cancer and other infirmities, including sicknesses of the soul. A reproduction of the icon hangs in many hospital cancer wards throughout Russia.

SMALL HANGING ICON

With Plexiglas cover, frankincense, faux gems,

and a cord for hanging

3 ¼” High

$9

#QOA304

Icon of the Mother of God "Pantanassa", the Healer of Cancer

The original Pantanassa (Queen of All) Icon of the 17th century is located in the Temple of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The Icon revealed itself as a healer of cancer and other infirmities, including sicknesses of the soul. A reproduction of the icon hangs in many hospital cancer wards throughout Russia.

EXTRA-SMALL, 3” High

$7

#QOA302

Akathist to the Mother of God "Pantanassa", the Healer of Cancer

Supplicatory service prayed before the miracle-working icon Queen of All, or Pantanassa, known for the healings of cancer and other infirmities worked through it. Both the Athonite and the Russian Holy Icon are known to work miracles, and many hospital cancer wards in Russia display this Icon. Includes Icon’s History and a Homily on Healing by the late Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh.

Pocket-sized, glossy paper, full color, 32 pgs.

$5

#QOA301

Service of the Synaxis of All the Holy Doctors

by Metropolitan Kyrillos of Rhodes,

translated By Bishop Spyridon of Amastris. 

In 2021, the Greek Orthodox Church established the Sunday following the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 7thEcumenical Synod as the Sunday of the Synaxis of all the Holy Doctors. This date was chosen because it falls close to the Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Unmercenary Physicians (Oct. 17/30) and that of the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist (Oct. 18/31), who was a doctor. 

72 pgs.

$22

#EPB1

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Tikhvinskaya Theotokos

Intricately detailed needlepoint of the Tikhvinskaya Theotokos.

Completely hand-made.

$198

14K Yellow 40x26 mm Orthodox Cross Pendant

Saint Olga Cross

Solid 14k yellow gold, 4.79 grams.  1.57″ H x 1.02″ W (40 x 26 mm), includes bail.

Comes gift boxed.

$1,150

#STG303

Icon of Saint Nicholas

A beautiful gift for your Church, for the Feast of Saint Nicholas! (Dec. 6/19, May 9/22 transfer of relics to Bari) This magnificent icon of Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, is inspired by the 17th-century original located at a Holy Monastery in Kissamos, Crete.

It is hand-painted and hand-crafted by a Greek hagiographer in his Monastiraki, Athens studio, with 925o pure silver, gilding and European crystals, and measures 11.5″ wide x 13.7″ high.

$930

QUALITY Processional Banners

Set of 2

Fabric/embroidered Icons quilted onto banner with silver and gold thread, double-sided, superb-quality gold fringe and tassels.

Prayerfully made in a monastery in Serbia.

Banner 1: Christ / Trinity (3 Angels) with Oak of Mamre

Banner 2: Theotokos / St. Nicholas

Banners measure 52″ High x 27″ Wide

$1,500 Set of Two

SINGLE-SIDED BANNERS OF LESSER QUALITY, WITH PAPER PRINT ICONS INSERTED IN PLASTIC SLEEVE, ARE SELLING FOR THIS MUCH!

St. Panteleimon Icon

Saint Panteleimon (“All-Merciful”) was a young and successful pagan physician in the time of Emperor Maximian, and became the Emperor’s personal physician. 

Panteleimon had a conversion experience at the hands of the priest St. Hermolaus, after which he began freely healing imprisoned Christians. Denounced by envious physicians to the Emperor, the Saint was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan gods, which he refused to do. As a result, he was cruelly tortured and ultimately beheaded beneath an olive tree, which blossomed with fruit at his martyrdom, ca. 305.

Feast day July 27/Aug. 9

High-quality seriograph icon crafted in Greece by a pious Master Hagiographer in his studio in Monastiraki, Athens. Canvas on wood with 925o silver riza and 24k gold highlights. Can be displayed either standing using the stand included, or by hanging on the wall using the keyhole on the back. Certificate of authenticity on reverse side.

4.3″ x 3.5″

$128

#IKC214

Pearl Cross Bracelet

Lovely petite 32-cultured white freshwater pearls and cubic zirconia cross bracelet, for youth. A perfect granddaughter or daddy-daughter gift that will be treasured as a symbol of your love and Christ’s love!

Bracelet size is 5 ½”, includes lobster clasp for secure fastening. Weight is 0.87 grams. Pearl width is 4.0-4.5 mm. Rhodium plated sterling silver.

$108 

Saints Barsanuphius and John Guidance Toward Spiritual Life: Answers to the Questions of Disciples

NEW & UNUSED

Revised 2nd edition 2002, Paperback

Translated from Russian by Father Seraphim Rose

Published by Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood

ISBN: 0-938635-84-0

Desert Fathers from 6th c. Palestine, Sts. Barsanuphius and John faced the same questions that are asked by Christians struggling towards salvation today: false humility, cold-hearted calculation, judgment, idleness, lack on inward vigilance, carnal thoughts, and vainglory. Their answers, filled with divine wisdom and love, counsel on the nature of thoughts and how to overcome vices and acquire virtue.

$250

A Handbook of Pastoral Correspondence

By Cleopas Strongylis and Christopher Tripoulas

A gem of a gift for any pastor or church! A unique resource, it contains templates for hundreds of letters that clergy must write for nearly every situation one can imagine.

What do you write to a judge when petitioning clemency for a prisoner? Or to a disgruntled parent of a Sunday-school student? How about an ecclesiastical divorce request, or a thank you to an accountant for assisting with lowering taxes? Letters to bishops, politicians, prisoners, potential converts, media, donors, youth, foundations, parish councils … the tremendous breadth of activity within the parish is covered in this highly-informative, remarkable resource handbook that should be required reference for every church office!

Published in 2014 by Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 341 pages.

$40.00 + s/h