Ознака:St. John the Baptist

Services and Sacraments

Bigorski Monastery Gratefully Celebrates its Heavenly Protector

Our Holy Church has always, with the deepest reverence, celebrated the virtues and spiritual gifts that adorned Saint John the Baptist, the Forerunner of our Lord, as well as all the Prophets, Apostles, Angels, Martyrs, and Confessors. The Forerunner himself…

Epistles

The Prophet with Angelic Wings – Saint John as an Example of Angelic Life

A homily by His Eminence Metropolitan Timothy of Debar and Kichevo, at the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, at Bigorski Monastery, on September 11, 2024, in the year of our Lord. In…

Epistles

The Monastic Vow – The Third Birth in Christ

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,…

Services and Sacraments

Solemn Celebration of the Synaxis of Saint John the Baptist

An angel in the body and a heavenly man. A dweller of the wilderness and a citizen of Heaven. Sent by God to prepare a worthy people, to make straight His paths, to call the nation to repentance. The greatest…

Sermons of Bishop Parthenius

Be the Voice That Calls All to the Lamb of God

A Sermon by His Grace Bishop Parthenius of Antania, Abbot of the Holy Bigorski Monastery, Delivered at the Vespers Service for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, August 28 / September 10, 2023 A.D. In the…

Services and Sacraments

Vespers to the Founders of the Bigorski Monastery

Св. Јован Дебранин - Бигорскиот, Архиепископ Охридски Rejoice ye, pastor of Ohrid, and most holy hermit of the Bigorski Monastery! Rejoice ye have founded it for eternity, most blessed John, appraisal of Debar! (Megalynarion to St. John of Debar, Archbishop…