Dear Friends of Mount Sinai Monastery, Several people have asked how things are going at St. Catherine's, so we wanted to pass along this update on their work and the status of visitors. Read more...
Christ opens his earthly ministry by receiving the Holy Spirit “as one of us” in the waters of the Jordan. He brings it to a close, at the Mystical Supper, with a promise to relay the gift to His followers. But to their great dismay, there is a condition. Read more...
Pascha, Holy Week, and the Feast of All Sinai Fathers, including brief statements about the attack that occurred close to the Monastery. Read more...
After the passage of fifteen centuries, does the Sinai brotherhood still feel the presence of Saint John Klimakos, author of the renowned Ladder of Divine Ascent? Read more...
As we approach the end of the year, with the Nativity Feast and soon the second anniversary of the 2015 launch of FMSM on the Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sinai (January 14/27)... See more...
At 5 am local time, shortly before the All-night Vigil for the Feast of St. Catherine (which had begun at 8 pm the previous evening) concluded with a procession around the outside of the Monastery’s great basilica with prayers for all the world, His Eminence Archbishop Damianos, Abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery, addressed the following remarks to Orthodox Christians throughout the world. Read more...
Unstudied contentment reasserts its hold over the Sinai fortress each year however, as monastics converge on the Monastery from all directions, drawn back for the celebrations of the Dormition of the Theotokos from near or far flung hermitages throughout the Mediterranean world. Read more...