Tag: monasticism

Day Conference: Christianity in Iraq X – 11 May 2013

Mysticism in the Iraqi Church: Forging New Boundaries Dr. Grigory Kessel (Marburg) – “God speaks to you through reading”. A Syriac monk’s library Miss Nadira Khayyat (Baghdad and Paris) – The Syriac…

Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos

8-10 March 2013 a conference of the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge Metropolitan Kallistos – “Spiritual Guidance  in the 18th Century, St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain, St Paissy…

Nuncio celebrates Mass at ancient Iraqi monastery

CWN October 23, 2012 Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, the apostolic nuncio in Iraq, celebrated Mass at an ancient monastery near the city of Najaf, and met with the influential Shi’ite leader, Ayatollah Ali…

Christian East-West Day IXa – Turvey Abbey

11 June 2012    Worship and Prayer in the Benedictine, Catholic, Eastern, Anglican and Methodist Traditions Turvey Abbey, BEDFORD 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Sr Esther of Turvey Abbey: Icongrapher and…

East-West Monastic Day IX at Minster Abbey

“FATHER MAY THEY ALL BE ONE”  2 June, 2012  An East-West Dialogue Day at Minster Abbey    SPEAKERS Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Southwark Bishop Demetrios Charbak of Safita, Syria Presentation on Egyptian Monasticism…

Eternal Memory: Mother Thekla

Father John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012: Mother Thekla was born Marina Sharf into a family of Jewish descent in the Caucasian town of Kislovodsk, just as the Russian Revolution was beginning, in…