Our monastery's icon of the Synaxis of the Optina saints, a gift from our sister monastery in Bulgaria, which has severl very talented iconographers. St. Ambrose of the Optina monastery reposed on October 10/23. Our monastery has a chapel dedicated to him, but since on that day we celebrate the Synaxis of all the Optina…
Mar Saba, in the Judean desert east of Jerusalem is one of the titles or names given to Saint Sabbas the Sanctified in the liturgical texts written in his honor and chanted today, on December 5/18. St. Sabbas the Sanctified is one of, if not The, great monastic father of the Judean desert. The roots…
Russian strannik (wanderer) by Miasoedov I’ve named my blog after the Russian Orthodox spiritual classic, The Way of a Pilgrim, the simple yet compelling and inspiring account of a spiritual seeker that wandered throughout Russia in the 19thcentury. In chapter 2 of the book the Pilgrim explains: “…I wandered about for a long time…having for…
A Pilgrim's Path 