Joy Comes in the Morning

S t. Thomas Sunday, the eighth day after the resurrection, Antipascha, stands at the opposite end of bright week from Pascha, embracing an ...

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.  (Paschal Troparion) It is seduc...

I am now at the blue dot. Happy to be home.  Thank God. 

1. When I first arrived we were eating three apples a day, one after each meal. At my fifth meal here (at Nea Skiti), I didn’t eat my apple...

This (Tuesday) morning I left Nea Skiti (red dot) on the Mikra Agia Anna speed boat, bound for Dafni.    By God’s grace, I was gi...

Today, Monday the 27th, is my last full day at the Holy Hut of St. John the Theologian, New Skete  (ΙΕΡΑ ΚΑΛΥΒΗ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΟΥ,...

On Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of this past week I went on excursions, little pilgrimages, if you will.  By ‘pilgrimage’ I simply mean a...