Monastery of the Transfiguration

March 2008 11 episodes

Mother Christophora is abbess at the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA. These lectures were given at the monastery or various conferences around the country. Also included are sermons and talks given by guests at the monastery.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
May 12, 2014	Fr. Tom Soroka - Bright Saturday Fr. Tom Soroka from St. Nicholas Orthodox Church near Pittsburgh speaks at the Bright Saturday liturgy at the Monastery about where we go from here after the exhaustion and intensity of Holy Week and Bright Week. Each day of Bright week we proclaimed the Resurrection to all creation, as if for each day of creation. St. Thomas Sunday brings the 8th day, the fulfillment of all, when we receive bread and wine in the Kingdom. Click to play	9:36
May 12, 2014	Archbishop Nathaniel - Lazarus Saturday Archbishop Nathaniel speaks about Lazarus Saturday at the Monastery in 2014. Click to play	18:18
Mar 14, 2014	Restoring the Human Icon St. Nicholas Church in Magadore, OH (OCA) invited Mother Christophora to speak at the Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers for the Akron area. Mother spoke about restoring the human icon and the role that monasteries have in aiding this restoration today. Click to play	30:20
Aug 27, 2013	The Church As A Revelation of Christ Fr. Maxym Lysack, pastor of Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church in Ottawa, Canada was visiting the monastery and gave an enlightening homily on the famous passage on the Church from St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. The Church is not an institution, but rather a revelation of a person, Jesus Christ. Click to play	15:27
Aug 16, 2013	The Dormition of the Holy Theotokos Fr. Radu Bordeianu, who teaches at Duquesne, gave a very simple, yet lovely homily about a blessed end to life and church community. Click to play	11:23
Apr 23, 2013	Mother Christophora - The Monastic Saints of Great Lent Mother Christophora was asked to give the homily at the Pan-Orthodox Sunday Lenten Vespers service for the Youngstown, Ohio, area. Vespers was held at St. John the Baptist (OCA) in Campbell, Ohio. She spoke about the monastic saints commemorated on the Sundays of Lent and then spoke about a contemporary monastic, Mother Alexandra, and what she might have to say to us today. Click to play	25:06
Mar 05, 2012	Fr. John Kostas - Sunday of Orthodoxy Homily given on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the monastery. Click to play	10:41
Mar 05, 2012	Fr. John Kostas - Forgiveness Sunday Homily given on Forgiveness Sunday at the monastery. Click to play	10:04
Mar 22, 2008	The Healing of Confession From a Lenten series on repentance delivered at the Orthodox Christian Women's conference in Montreal in March of 2008. Click to play	44:33
Mar 22, 2008	The Joy of Repentance part 2 From a Lenten series on repentance delivered at the Orthodox Christian Women's conference in Montreal in March of 2008. Click to play	29:49
Mar 22, 2008	The Joy of Repentance part 1 From a Lenten series on repentance delivered at the Orthodox Christian Women's conference in Montreal in March of 2008. Click to play	45:06