A Conversation with Sister Efimija of the Bigorski Monastery on Monasticism, Spirituality, and the Contemporary European Cultural Scene During the Paschal season, Sister Efimija from the Orthodox Bigorski Monastery in North Macedonia spent several weeks in Vienna on a research residency. She was a guest in the oasis of our abbey. In the following interview,…
Dedicated to Biljana Vasilevska-Trajkoska (†2024) At the close of the past year, 2024, the 30th anniversary of Before the Rain, the opus magnum of Milcho Manchevski, was commemorated with due attention and honor. This cinematic masterpiece gifted the world a profoundly moving and prophetic testimony of time, space, and the interwoven currents of human life.…
Introductory Remarks The second half of the 19th century was marked by immense progress in science and industrialization, as well as the continuous secularization of life and thought. Realism, positivism, Darwinism, Marxism, and liberalism reacted against the romantic, religious, and metaphysical interpretations of nature and society, focusing instead on an empirical worldview that surpassed the…
Address by Archimandrite Cyril Bigorski at the first interfaith forum in Debar on the topic: “The Family: Pillar of Love and Social Development,” held on November 9, 2024, the Year of the Savior. Honorable attendees, It is with profound honor and joy that we gather today in this renowned and noble city of Debar, a…
Address by Nun Efimiya Zajkovska at the first interfaith forum in Debar on the theme: “The Family: Pillar of Love and Social Development,” held on November 9, 2024, the Year of the Savior Honorable Mayor, Mr. Hekuran Duka, Honorable Bishop Parthenius of Antania, Abbot of the Holy Bigorski Monastery, Honorable Mufti, Mr. Reshat Kachalniku, Honorable…
You will mock Christ and be proud, as if you have accomplished some heroic feat. But what new thing have you done, man? When Christ on the Cross spread His arms to embrace the whole world, including you, the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, and the Pharisees, mockingly said, "He saved others;…
