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A Grace-Filled Athonite Night at the Skete of Saint Panteleimon – the Elder’s Historic Hierarchical Divine Service

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…

In the Embrace of the Garden of the Mother of God – the Elder’s First Pilgrimage to Mount Athos as a Bishop

With profound emotion, spiritual joy, and gratitude to the all-good and bountiful God, our beloved Elder and Abbot, His Grace Bishop Parthenius of Antania, accompanied by several members of the Bigorski Brotherhood, is spending these days on pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Athos – the blessed Garden of the Most Holy Theotokos and the…

Blood Given in Love – Hope and Life for Our Neighbour

With gratitude to God, the Lover of Mankind, Who continually calls us to translate our faith into works of love, today the second regional summer blood donation drive was successfully held at our sacred Bigorski Monastery under the motto: Give Blood – Save a Life! This noble and compassionate undertaking took place with the blessing…

Conciliar Joy at Bigorski’s Feast of Saint John’s Day

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…

The Voice That Awakened Joy: A Vigil with Athonite Blessing in Honor of Saint John the Baptist

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…

Nun Efimija of Rajčica Participates in the World Conference on Religious Dialogue in Skopje

ВFrom 22 to 26 June, Skopje hosted the Fourth World Conference on Religious Dialogue and Cooperation, which this year was dedicated to the highly relevant and complex theme: “Religion as a Weapon of War: Past, Present and Future.” The official opening of the Conference took place on 22 June at the Museum of the Macedonian…