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...
Today, as we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Paisios of Mount Athos, FMSM presents a documentary with English subtitles that depicts the time St. Paisios spent at St. Catherine's Monastery. lder Pavlos regarding their personal experiences with St. Paisios. Read more...
A pilgrimage to the cave of St. John.
Approaching the cave of Saint John, the silence of ages seems refracted by the soaring massifs extending the passage into an almost tactile iridescence. Evanescent shades of pink, blue, purple, red, and black granite - everything but gray - succeed one another, blended by the softly charged atmosphere into an impressionistic rendering of light. Read more....
As Friends of Mount Sinai Monastery approaches the first anniversary of its launch on the Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sinai (January 14, which falls on January 27 in Sinai)... Read more...