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,

Sewing Room Update

The Queen of All Skete will keep alive this ancient monastic tradition crafting fine textile arts and toward this end,
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,

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
Service of the Synaxis of all Holy Doctors book cover

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

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

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,

The Borders of Ukraine

Enter in and view some of the exquisitely painted church borders of Ukraine!

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

COVID19 Prayer

“Metropolitan Hilarion has blessed all the laity to read this prayer while we are in the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19.