Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

Enter all of you, therefore, into the joy of our Lord, and, whether first or last, receive your reward...

Meetings at the Skete

Regularly updated video lectures on spiritual topics. Recent entries include: Filling the Emptiness, Human Behavior, The Passions, Changing Our Ways… All classes held at Saviour’s Desert Skete.

Pascha 2013

This is the day of Resurrection! Let us be illumined, O people. Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord! For, from death to life, and from earth to heaven, has Christ our God led us… —from the Paschal Canon

Bright Week 2013

Thou didst decend into the tomb, O Immortal; Thou didst destroy the power of death! In victory didst Thou arise, O Christ God, proclaiming “Rejoice” to the myrrhbearing women… —Kontakion

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From the Fathers …

The Holy Apostle John
the Theologian says that
the commandments of God
are not difficult, but easy.
But they are only easy
because of love, while they
are all difficult if there is
no love.

St. Silouan the Athonite,
Writings, XVI.10

Pascha, St. Nicholas Cathedral