To begin with I wish you a Good New Year with health even though the coronavirus will trouble us for a little while yet. Our hope, however, and our faith in the All-Powerful Triune God Who appeared on Mount Sinai will strengthen us to find ourselves in health, bodily and spiritually, fulfilling His will according to His Holy Commandments. Read more…
On the first anniversary of Elder Pavlos’s (+March 1) falling asleep….
“For the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Read more…
One might ask why Jesus was baptized, given that the fallen human nature He assumed was already deified at His Incarnation, by its “hypostatic” union with His divine nature in the Person of Christ. Read more…
When God comes to dwell amongst us at His incarnation, our own human nature is swept up into His divinity … Read more…
Dear Friends of the Monastery, As we approach the blessed Nativity of Christ, we hope that you and your loved ones have all been safe and able to weather the Covid pandemic. St. Catherine's Monastery closed in March, and while they are now partially opened, the border with Israel remains closed, curtailing pilgrimage from Jerusalem which provided essential support to St. Catherine’s Monastery in the past. Read more…
For the Feast of Saint Catherine, Great Martyr of Alexandria
Saint Catherine’s life weaves an epic tapestry: born to a patrician family amidst idolatry, her quest for knowledge becomes the quest for truth which leads her to its Source, to whose love she voluntarily sacrifices youth, beauty, wealth, prestige and finally, the life she had not yet lived. One wonders about the inner motivations of the Saints, but little more is known regarding what led to such sacrifice than her path to Christ through a Christian mother and Spirit-bearing elder named Onouphrios. Read more…
At the foot of Mount Sinai where Moses encountered God - why does the icon of Christ’s Transfiguration fill the great apse of Emperor Justinian’s basilica? To be sure, while the miracles of the Exodus occurred some 1250 years earlier, both events center on Christ. Read more….
