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Learning to Make Prosphora

Learning to make prosphora with natural yeast (‘sourdough’) starter has been a challenge. After initial failures, we seem to have found a method that works, but always there is room for improvement.

The Forty Martyrs of Sebastea

In 2009, Father Nilus and I celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastea.

A Garden Gate

A gate in the garden emerges into the sunlight.

Almond Blossoms

Πᾶσα σὰρξ ὡς χόρτος καὶ πᾶσα δόξα αὐτῆς ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου· ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν· τὸ δὲ ρῆμα Κυρίου μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word […]

Almond Blossoms

After a few weeks, the petals fall to the ground and new leaves appear.

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Almond Blossoms

Spring arrives early in Sinai, with the first warm days in the middle of February.

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