At the foot of Mount Sinai where Moses encountered God - why does the icon of Christ’s Transfiguration fill the great apse of Emperor Justinian’s basilica? To be sure, while the miracles of the Exodus occurred some 1250 years earlier, both events center on Christ. Read more….
A voice of deep sorrow from the center of the Sinai desert, the Monastery of St. Catherine of the Holy and God-trodden Mountain of Sinai, a voice of brotherly prayer and petition. Read more…
Christ is Risen! “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.” (John 4:10) Asked what it is like to experience the Divine Liturgy as celebrant, Sinai’s Father Pavlos (Blessed memory, +March 1, 2020) says… Read more…
Christ is risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Христос воскресе! !المسيح قام In this particularly difficult Paschal season, we would like to share a very special video. Read more…
There are people with whom you’ve spoken only a little but you’ll preserve their light in your heart forever. Recalling their righteousness, you strive for it yourself. Fr. Pavlos, seen by many pilgrims as he led excursions on Mt. Sinai, was an earthly angel. Read more…
A message from the Archbishop of Sinai regarding the pandemic and the Sunday of St. John Klimakos. Read more…
With deepest sensibility, the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine of the God-trodden Mount Sinai announces that today, Cheesefare Sunday (March 1) of 2020, the venerable, ascetic and esteemed Archimandrite Pavlos Bougiouras, a distinguished member of the ancient Sinai Brotherhood, was translated to the Lord after a long and devastating illness, which he underwent with evangelic endurance, fortitude, silence and meekness. Read more…
