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Services and Sacraments

(Video) The Monastery of Prechista Adorns Itself with Another Bride of Christ

"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…

Epistles

Monasticism – The Second Baptism and Path to Eternal Glory

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…

Services and Sacraments

(Video) Three New Monks in the Embrace of Christ’s Love

"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…

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,…

Events

Five New Monastic Vows on the Feast of Saint John the Forerunner at Bigorski Monastery

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…

Events

Twenty-five years since the monasticism of our Elder Parthenius

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…