Rating: 9.3|Votes: 3
Romanian National Television (TVR1) presents the story of Br. Sava, an American monk laboring at Oaşa Monastery in Romania. Steven grew up a Roman Catholic in New Orleans but became captivated by Orthodoxy through reading Dostoyevsky, eventually entering the Church on the feast of the Transfiguration in 1977. After years of working as an accountant he gave up such a life to enter into the holy life of monasticism, first in Ohio, then on Mt. Athos, finally finding his home in Romania.
Rhonda McBride
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Most Alaskans have probably never heard of Monk’s Lagoon, nestled just across the water from Kodiak on Spruce Island. But pilgrims from all over the world seek it out because it’s considered one of the holiest places on the planet.
Tudor Petcu, Francisco Jose Pino Rodriguez
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Most of the Orthodox parishes in Spain seldom use our language, so one of the aims of the House is to contribute to revert this tendency by celebrating services in Spanish and providing our clergy and lay members with suitable liturgical material in order to do so. We will also have conferences about the lives of Hispanic saints, etc.
Rating: 5|Votes: 5
In the Middle Ages in the north there existed workshops where skillful craftsmen worked, carving out of wood statues of saints, remarkable for their epic power and expressiveness.
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.