The history of the Church should, in fact, be called the history of truth. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) On May 9, 2022, His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to the great joy of Orthodox believers here and across the Orthodox ecumene, healed the decades-long church schism and "received the hierarchy, clergy, and faithful of…
August 1995, on the eighth day of the month, the commemoration of Saint Paraskeva of Rome. The sun, majestically rising between the mountains of Bistra and Krchin, reigns sovereignly over the entire region of Reka, revealing in full the primordial beauty of the Radika Gorge. At that time, I was still acquainting myself with the…
The most significant part of the musical history of the Roman Empire (later known as the Byzantine Empire) is undoubtedly church music, which represents a complete musical civilization with its own principles, distinctive style, advanced notation system, and an unparalleled variety of forms with countless interpretive possibilities from its vast melodic richness. Church music evolved…
Recently, by God's providence, another beam of light has shone upon the "gentle and gracious monastic figure of the renowned Bigorski Abbot and founder, Archimandrite Arsenij." The great friend and collaborator of our Holy Monastery, Mr. Filip Filipov from Sofia, originally from the Macedonian region of Reka, a historian by profession, discovered a particularly valuable…
“And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” (Matthew 7:25) Thanks to the merciful and all-wise providence of God, who carefully oversees everything, and thanks to the countless martyrdoms and sacrifices on the…
