"Monasticism," as our monastic father in Christ, Elder Bishop of Antania, His Grace Parthenius, once said, "is the heart of the spiritual life of the Church, the spring from which the saints and teachers of divine knowledge flow. In the…
Address by His Eminence, Metropolitan of Debar and Kičevo, Timotej, during the monastic tonsure of Nun Thekla at the Holy Monastery of Prechista in Kičevo, on the 20th of September, Year of Our Lord 2024 In the name of the…
"Monasticism is flesh of the flesh of the Church, a dynamic expression of the ascetic spirit and the eschatological yearning of its life. Devoted in soul, mind, and body to Christ, 'strangers and pilgrims in this world,' 'turning nights into…
A homily by His Eminence Metropolitan Timothy of Debar and Kichevo, on the occasion of the monastic tonsure of Brothers Elisha, Panteleimon, and Eustathios, at the Vespers of the feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, September 10,…
A day of joy and festivity, a birth great and wondrous! Today the Forerunner is born—the voice of the Word, the voice crying out from the wilderness: Repent! Behold, the new era begins, the years in which God will establish…
For many years to come, our Bishop Parthenius, our father in Christ! Twenty-five years ago, on the 5th of August 1995, at the Evening Vespers in honour of the Holy Martyr Christina of Tyre, in the glorious temple of the…
