Schedule for Great Lent, 2010
Weekdays
6:00 AM Jesus Prayer* and Orthros (Morning Prayer)
12:00 PM Sixth Hour and reading from the Ladder of Divine Ascent
4:15 PM Ninth Hour or Typika
4:30 PM Jesus Prayer* and Vespers or Presanctified Liturgy (Wednesday and Friday and as prescribed by the Typikon)
6:30 PM Dinner in Abbey Refectory
8:00 PM Great Compline (on Friday, Small Compline with Akathist hymn)
More pilgrimage photos!
Beautiful photos from our friend Amy, here.
Contact information
From April 30, 2009, the monks of Holy Resurrection Monastery will be living as guests of St. Andrew's Abbey, Valyermo CA. This arrangement is temporary (up to three years) while the Holy Resurrection community, with the assistance of their advisors, look for a permanent home in Southern California.
Eastern Christian Media
Want to see Father Moses cooking? Look over a wonderful new website, Eastern Christian Media. It's going to be big!
Meeting with Supporters, Feb. 21
On Saturday, February 21 2009 about 70 friends and supporters of the Monastery turned out to pray with the monks and hear more of their plans for the future. Thanks to the generosity of the pastor, Father James Babcock, the gathering was held at Holy Cross Melkite Greek-Catholic Church in Placentia, CA.
Monks on Youtube...Word from the Wise
Our friend Catherine and her family visited last year and made a number of video interviews with the monks. Here's a sample. The rest can be viewed at YourWordFromTheWise on Youtube. More to come I think, too!
St Philip's Associates
On the Feast of St. Nicholas, December 6th, Father Abbot Nicholas received 14 new Monastic Associates, and our first parish chapter, that of St. Philip the Apostle Melkite Greek-Catholic Mission in San Bernardino, CA. Among this group was our first clerical Associate, Father Justin Rose. Pictures can be found here. These Associates will spend the next three years in what we are calling a "novitiate" before making a final commitment to live as Monastic Associates according to their state in life.
Fr Moses' Kitchen online!
Father Moses has begun a new blog to help us all through the feasts and fasts of the Church--help us at meal times, that is!. Visit it via the "Fr Moses' Kitchen" link in the main menu to the left of this screen.
Buy Books, Support the Monastery!
www.bythelightofthemoonbooks.com! Our good friend Jessica Archuleta runs a wonderful business supplying quality childrens' books for reasonable prices. Ideal for all faithful parents! Just in time for Christmas!
Involuntary Sins?
Have you ever wondered why Eastern Christians pray so frequently for the forgiveness of "involuntary sins"? Here is Father Maximos' reflection on the question in the form of his MA thesis recently defended as part of his program at the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute, part of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
Comments gladly welcomed.
His Grace Bishop John Michael (Botean)
"We Eastern Catholics have now reached the point of stability and maturity where we can offer much to the universal Church. The treasures of which we have to give are not financial, but of a rich spiritual and liturgical presence. I encourage Catholics of all traditions to support this appeal for The Anastasis Dialogue in order to help us, the "Eastern lung" of the Church, play its role in bringing more abundant life to the whole Body of Christ."
LA Tidings article on monastery's move
Preparations for the Byzantine monks' move from their small monastery in the Mojave Desert near Barstow began in 2007, when the community decided that their five-fold mission --- including opening their liturgical services to as wide a community as possible and exposing more Roman Catholics to authentic Eastern Catholic tradition --- would be better served in a less remote location.
More from this article here.
Lent and Holy Week schedules
Please note the schedules for the Great Fast and Great and Holy Week. Remember, the Monastery observes Pascha on the revised Julian calendar, which falls this year one week later than the Western Easter.
February 21, Gathering
Keeping the Monks in Southern California!
A Gathering at Holy Cross Melkite Greek-Catholic Church
451 W. Madison Ave. Placentia, CA 92870
Directions: www.holycrossmelkite.org
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Monks to Stay in California
Friends: although we must move from Newberry Springs, we have decided to stay in Southern California. Our attempts to move to the East Coast have simply not been succesful. The money is not there, which is to say that the Lord wishes us to do something else! We are so grateful to everyone who has tried to make the big move possible, especially the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in New York and New Jersey. But it is not to be.
Fr Maximos at Holy Theophany
In early March Father Maximos visited our sister monastery, Holy Theophany, in Olympia, WA. The nuns hold an annual series of Lenten talks on Saturday afternoons, and Mother Anastasia asked Fr. Maximos to speak about the divine office.
H.E. Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago
"I am pleased to offer my support to the establishment of the Anastasis Dialogue
