Reflections on Elder Ephraim of Arizona and the role monasteries play in the life of the Church.

Christ Is Risen!  Glory to God! We've completed the Lenten Fast, endured and rejoiced through the long services of Holy Week, exulted in the Glorious Bright Resurrection, and taken our well-earned refreshment. We finally made it to the goal of our annual spring struggle. With all the luminosity and radiance of this week, let us be sure to remember this is also Renewal Week: "Behold, I make all things new." Every Pascha we all undergo a type of new baptism: "As many as have b

Attached is His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon's Paschal message to the Orthodox Church in America for the Feast of the Resurrection. You can read it here