The health of the Church in a particular area can be measured by the health of monasticism in that area, and thus the relation of monastic life to the greater Orthodox Church in America is one that ...

"Pandhof next to the Dom Church." Photo by Bart van Leeuwen / Flickr (cropped from original). CC BY 2.0. This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It ...

Crna Reka was unlike other monasteries in the Serbian Orthodox Church. I was drawn to it by the great Christian love that the brothers had for each other, as well as by the modesty and peacefulness ...

It’s a better representation of what the Orthodox monastic lifestyle is ... After two days, he starts to wonder: While monastic life may be a great life’s path for some, after hearing the ...

Inside the dazzling white Valamo monastery, the country's only Eastern Orthodox abbey, the day begins at 6:00 am with prayers ...

This prayer rope was made at The Monastery of the Holy Trinity ... take pity on me a sinner'. An aspect of Orthodox worship now finding a place in several Western expressions of Christianity.