The first rays of sunlight on the mountains to the north of the monastery.
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The mountains to the east of the monastery look like a monolithic face. But as the sun sets, shadows reveal that there is a ridge, with an intervening valley and mountains beyond. The hermitage of Saints Galakteon and Episteme is in the valley. It is said that when the Elder Paisios was living in […] I took friends to see the Chapel of Saint Anne. We left at 5:00 AM. The sun rose as we were on the trail. A detail of the Russian bell hanging in the second tier of the bell tower. On Friday, Father Michael and I went to the Chapel of Saint Panteleimon for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. We rode camels to the last camel stand. All I could see was an expanse of black, but the Bedouin and the camels could see the path in the dark. The first light […] This year, once again, we were able to celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of Saint Anne on her feast day. The only person who could go with me needed to be back at the monastery to open the gift shop when the monastery is open to visitors. That is why we decided […] The 1871 bell tower in the last sunlight of the day. The marble medallion is inscribed, Ἐπὶ Γρηγορίου Σκευοφύλακος τοῦ Ζακυνθίου Νοεμβρίου 24, 1871. “By Gregory Skevophylax from Zakynthos November 24, 1871.” The bell tower was dedicated the day before the feast of Saint Catherine. The medallion is carved with a depiction of […] A full moon rising behind the bell tower. In the high mountains above the monastery, the first sign of a new day is a band of rose coloured light on the horizon. This was the time when the Myrrh-bearing women went to the Tomb, ‘as it began to dawn’, when the restrictions of the Sabbath were now at an end. They found […] The Chapel of Saint John the Forerunner in the first light of a new day, photographed from the promontory above the Chapel of Saint Anne. |
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