After the sacred night filled with prayer, psalmody, and the ineffable joy of the monastic birth of three new brothers, today the feast of the Beheading of the Honourable Head of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John, attained its most sublime and natural fulfilment—in the Holy Divine Eucharist. For…
We experience the memory and presence of Christ’s saints as a heavenly visitation, as a grace-filled touch of eternity upon our transient life. But Saint John the Baptist… For Bigorski, he is something even more! He is not merely the saint to whom the Monastery is dedicated, nor merely the heavenly intercessor of this ancient…
There are nights when time seems no longer to be measured by hours, but begins instead to be measured by prayer; nights when the earthly withdraws before the heavenly, and the human heart, freed at least for a moment from the noise of all that passes away, senses that it stands before another reality –…
A Historic Event in the Garden of the Theotokos Amid the sacred hesychia of the Garden of the Theotokos, where time seems to lose its customary course and is transformed into an unceasing expectation of, yet also an encounter with, eternity, last night, at the Koutloumousian Skete of the Holy and Glorious Great-Martyr and Healer…
After the many-hour vigil, when the night flowed into morning and the rays of the sun were already embracing the summit of Bistra, with great honor and respect, before the beginning of the Divine Liturgy, we also welcomed our esteemed Metropolitan of Debar and Kičevo, George, who arrived together with the Abbot of the Monastery…
There is a night in which the wilderness speaks. There is a birth after which aged lips, silenced for months, are opened once again — not merely to speak, but to sing praise. Such is this night: the night on which our holy Bigorski Monastery celebrates its solemn feast — the Nativity of the honorable…
