Falling Alseep of Elder Pavlos of Sinai (1939-2020)

Source: Friends of Mount Sinai Monastery

March 1, 2020

    

With deepest sensibility, the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine of the God-trodden Mount Sinai announces that today, Cheesefare Sunday (March 1) of 2020, the venerable, ascetic and esteemed Archimandrite Pavlos Bougiouras, a distinguished member of the ancient Sinai Brotherhood, was translated to the Lord after a long and devastating illness, which he underwent with evangelic endurance, fortitude, silence and meekness.

... Blessed Archimandrite Pavlos (born George Bougiouras) was born on January 17, 1939, in the town of Kranidi of Hermonidos, to a pious and traditional family, where he was brought up in “education and mind of the Lord.”

A person of deep faith and love, prior to his monastic dedication he served Christ in the face of his fellow man by working at the Annunciation Hospital.

In 1972, mature, having completed his studies at the Theological School of the University of Athens, he entered the Holy Monastery of Sinai, where he received both the monastic schema and the Priesthood.

... Read the rest at Friends of Mount Sinai Monastery.

3/3/2020

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The work on the ancient parchments, including the earliest surviving copy of the Gospels, the Codox Sinaiticus, dating to the 4th century, is being undertaken by a team from Greece that takes images in red, green, and blue light and merges them together with computer software to make one high-quality color picture. Dormition at the Burning Bush Dormition at the Burning Bush Dormition at the Burning Bush Dormition at the Burning Bush
Like families anywhere, monastic communities have their public and private challenges, and turn their best face to the world. Unstudied contentment reasserts its hold over the Sinai fortress each year however, as monastics converge on the Monastery from all directions, drawn back for the celebrations of the Dormition of the Theotokos from near or far flung hermitages throughout the Mediterranean world. Bride of Christ, St. Catherine of Alexandria Bride of Christ, St. Catherine of Alexandria Bride of Christ, St. Catherine of Alexandria Bride of Christ, St. Catherine of Alexandria
Pilgrms approach one by one to kiss the Saint’s precious relics, each with the secret prayer closest to his heart, and then bow to receive the ring blessed by her grace, to be worn forever in mystical union with the Heavenly Bridegroom – and all those illumined by the Holy Light of Sinai to exchange the worship of this world’s false gods for union with the Most High – inspired by the radiant example of our Princess among the Saints, the Holy Great-Martyr and All-Wise Bride of Christ, Catherine of Alexandria.
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