The Psalter (Audio Recording)The Hermitage of the Holy Cross has recorded the reading of the Psalter on three compact discs. Our text of the Psalms was translated by Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, MA, from the 1821 Moscow edition of the Greek Septuagint Psalter, the most trusted and reliable of all extant printings of the traditional Greek text of Orthodox Church. The Psalms are read in a manner common to Orthodox prayer services: a simple intonation minimizing any

John very well

A refined selection of delicate floral aromas

Panteleimon icon that adorns the monastery chapel’s iconostasis

yet there was nothing antiquarian or academic about his devotion to the teaching of the past: for this ancient tradition was something that he had experienced directly

we learn that Lent is not about the rules

Sergius Chetverikov

in Konitsa of Epirus (Northern Greece)

Nikolai Kulikovsky

and indices

monasteries

were now turning Martin's world upside down

He also addresses the problems of his day—lack of faith