On the occasion of the radiant Paschal celebrations, with the blessing of our Elder, His Grace Bishop Parthenius of Antania, today our brother, Archimandrite Dositheus, visited our dear friends and fellow citizens of Debar, bringing them a Paschal egg — a symbol of life, victory, and the hope that the Resurrection of Christ bestows upon…
Today the Lord enters Jerusalem – Life among mortals – humbly mounted upon a donkey, while the people receive Him with palm branches and cries: “Hosanna! Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord!” And this entrance – humble, meek, upon a creature that no one would imagine bearing the immortal King…
If the first Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, showed us that, through the Incarnation, God became visible and that His image can be depicted in an icon, then the second Sunday reveals something even deeper: that this same God not only became visible, but that His uncreated light is also accessible, tangible,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxnFwYjPDk There is something profoundly consoling in the fact that the first week of Great Lent ends with a miracle. Not with some poor human achievement, not with some negligible merit of our own, but with the miracle of a Saint who, even after death, cares for the people of God. The Saturday of Saint…
When, in the Friday twilight silence of the church at Bigorski Monastery, the final echo of penitential Clean Friday faded away, another hymn took its place – more solemn, fresher, filled with pure thanksgiving and filial trust. The brethren and the faithful stood upright with dignity, for this is precisely what the Akathist signifies: not…
Friday. The end of the first week. And when this evening the sun sets behind Mount Bistra, we shall be able to say: we have passed through. With God’s help, with prayer, with intense struggle and patience. The first week of Great Lent – the strictest and most demanding – is behind us. Yet not…
The fourth day. The body has already grown accustomed to hunger, but the soul – she is only now beginning to awaken and to blossom spiritually. For fasting has its hidden laws: the first days are struggle, and then, little by little, something opens within, something quiet and deep, like a spring in the midst…
The blessed three-day absolute fast. Three days of total abstinence, of prayer, of silence, of intense struggle and inward peace. And today, on Clean Wednesday, that unique three-day ascetical labor received its crown: the first Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in this Great Lent, served as a sacred seal upon the first steps of the…
When yesterday, on Clean Monday, we opened the gates of Great Lent, we in truth opened the gates of our own soul. Today, on the second day of the Fast, that opening deepens. For one day of abstinence is only a beginning, but two days are already a step upon the way. And the way…
Today, when the wooden semantron of Bigorski sent forth its call through the forest stillness of Mount Bistra, it did not merely announce the dawn of a new day. It proclaimed the beginning of a new life. For Clean Monday is no ordinary day; it is a holy threshold, a hidden passage, the soul’s first…
Let us embrace the fast that sets us aright, pleasing to the Lord – a true, righteous, and pure fast: estrangement from evil, restraint of the tongue, the casting away of anger, separation from passions… And together let us cry out: O Christ God, raise us up from our fall, for You are the Lover…
A sermon by His Eminence Bishop Partheniυs of Antania, delivered after the reading of the Holy Gospel, at the Divine Eucharist in honor of the memory of our holy father Parthenius of Lampsacus, on February 7/20, 2026 the year of our Lord Venerable and Honorable Fathers, Venerable Monks and Nuns, Beloved Brothers and Sisters in…
There is one sacred day in the cycle of the year when the venerable sanctuary of the Honorable Forerunner beside the River Radika seems to tremble with a joy not of this world; when the bells of the monastery belfry resound with a tone not merely festal, but filial; when the vigil candles burn with…
The sermon of His Eminence Bishop of Antania, Sir Parthenius, hegumen of the Bigorski Holy Monastery, spoken at the Vespers service in honor of Saint Parthenius of Lampsakos the Miracle-Worker, on December 6/19, in the year of our Savior 2026. My beloved fathers, brothers and spiritual children, I would like, first of all, from all…
+ BARTHOLOMEW By God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church May the grace and peace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ;and from us, prayer, blessing, and forgiveness. Most honorable brother Hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord, Filled with sacred emotion, we enter once again, by…
The day of God’s divine revelation has dawned—a day on which God not only revealed Himself to humanity, but once again entered history in order to transfigure it from within. Today, the heavens are opened not as some distant sign from ancient times, but as a gracious reality that truly touches human life. Today, the…
The holy and radiant night of Christmas once again revealed to the world the eternal truth: that man is not abandoned, that history is not a closed circle, and that darkness does not have the final word. In the holy Bigorski Monastery, this night was not merely a remembrance of a past event, but a…
Yesterday, the hall of Hotel “Venec” in Debar hosted an exceptional event that brought together sport, spirituality, and life wisdom. Guided by the idea that sport is not merely physical strength but a purification of the “temple of the body,” five elite athletes shared their intimate stories of success, setbacks, and indomitable will. The event…
Today, the Sacred Monastery of Bigorski was honoured with a friendly visit from the Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, H.E. Mr. András Klein, accompanied by his associate, Mr. Erik Vangel. On this occasion, His Excellency presented the Bigorski Library with a donation of some twenty valuable book editions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan of Europe Mr. Pimen, and at the invitation of our beloved Father Jovan Todevski, parish priest in Vienna, Austria, our Elder and Abbot, His Grace Bishop of Antania Mr. Parthenius, sent a part of the choir of the Bigorski monastic brotherhood—together with our beloved cantors and zealous helpers…
