The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Thank you Barbara, for your concern. We are celebrating our patronal feast, of the Lesna Icon, this Sunday, as well as the 20th anniversary of the elevation of our beloved Matushka Macrina to Abbess. We are expecting around 200 guests. Because of all the preparations, the furnace drive has been on h...

Thank you, Barbara, and congratulations on the feast of the Transfiguration! And congratulations to everyone else on the forum, too! The summer is always pretty busy here, but besides the usual work and financial worries, I haven't been well. I ask for everyone's prayers, as I'm going for tests tomo...

Yes, this is historical fact. The Treasury of the Reims Cathedral still has the Slavonic Gospels that Princess Anne of Kiev brought with her, and the marriage agreement-- she signed her name, but Philippe "X"-ed his, as he was illiterate. The last monastery that she founded and where she l...

Dear friends, I had been meaning to post about this, but I wasn't sure what the policy was on asking for donations here, and then Joanne kindly pointed out that someone else had already posted something. The link is for a fundraising site, and you can donate via paypal on it. Every bit of help is ap...

I've read and heard from people that worked in Alaska at the time that though officially in Alaska, at the time of the purchase, everyone, both Russian and native, was granted religious freedom, Americans basically treated the native Alaskans as pagans, ignoring the Orthodoxy that had, by this time,...