Commemorate your departed loved ones.
May you have a joyous Nativity season and a blessed New Year!
With love in Christ,
Abbess Thekla & the sisters in Christ
]]>"Wash away, Lord, by Your Holy Blood, the sins of all those commemorated, through the intercessions of the Theotokos and all Your saints. Amen."
The blessed period of the Nativity Fast is approaching and along with the fast, the forty-day Liturgy begins. We will be given, once again, the opportunity to commemorate the names of the living as much as the names of the reposed.
The Divine Liturgy will be celebrated daily at the monastery for the period of the Fast. You may follow the link above or below and send us the names of your orthodox loved ones for commemoration.
May our Lord bless you!
Commemorate your loved ones during the "Sarantaleitourgo", Forty-day Divine Liturgy...
]]>2 June 2023
Reverent Abbess Thekla and Sisters
Monastere Vierge-Marie La Consolatrice
827, Chemin de la Carriere
Brownsburg-Chatham (Quebec), J8G 1K7
Dear Gerondissa Thekla,
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father and communion of the Holy Spirit be with you always.
When I visited our Monastery on Monday, May 22nd, you kindly showed me around the building under construction. It was a great pleasure and I thank you.
You informed me that it would take three and a half million dollars ($3,500,000) to finish the skeleton of the building. You also told me that a new organization of supporters of the Monastery has been established. I promised you that our Holy Archdiocese will donate for our Monastery and especially for this purpose, one million dollars ($1,000,000) if you and the friends of the Monastery first raise the remaining two and a half million dollars ($2,500,000). You can publish this letter.
I thank and congratulate you and the entire sisterhood as well as the friends of the Monastery for your good efforts.
I wish you every success. I shall look forward with great pleasure to your positive news.
With paternal love and warm wishes
THE ARCHBISHOP
(signature)
OF CANADA SOTIRIOS
]]>Commemorate your departed loved ones.
Matins canon, Ode 7. Tone 2
]]>Be lifted up, all you that have been humbled
Be lifted up, all you that have fallen
Be lifted up, all you that are despised
Be lifted up, all you that have despaired
Be lifted up, all you that have been neglectful
Be lifted up, all you that are indolent
Be lifted up, all you that are wounded by the devil
Be lifted up, all you that are wounded by your own passions
Be lifted up, all you that are wounded by the world
Receive power and might,
receive courage for Christ the Savior is born for us.
Sing to the Lord, all the earth and praise Him with joy all people:
For He has been glorified.
Have a blessed Nativity feast and a prosperous New Year 2023.
With love in our newborn Lord,
Abbess Thekla & the sisters in Christ
]]>This coming Saturday, December the 10th 2022, following the Divine Liturgy, our sisterhood will solemnly celebrate the third anniversary of the repose of our late spiritual father and founder of our monastery, Elder Ephraim of Arizona.
Elder Ephraim peacefully reposed in the Lord at the age of 91, on December 7, 2019 at Saint Anthony's monastery in Arizona. His funeral was served and he was laid to rest at the monastery of Saint Anthony's in Arizona on December 11, 2019, where he had spent the last years of his life.
May we have his blessing!
]]>From the book Counsels from the Holy Mountain by Elder Ephraim of Arizona
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