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St. Paisius Orthodox Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox Christian women’s coenobitic community in
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History

The monastery was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to St. Paisius Velichkovsky, who dedicated his life to collecting and translating the texts of the Philokalia as a means of preserving the teachings of the Holy Fathers on the hesychastic way of life. Since 1995, the sisterhood has welcomed teenage girls who wish to live and study at the monastery. The monastery home school is dedicated to the Protection of the Theotokos. The sisters tutor the girls in their studies and offer supplementary classes. Some of the students have chosen to remain as nuns in the monastery, while others have married and started their own families. An Orthodox cemetery was established in 2004.


Monastery life

The sisterhood is currently composed of about twenty sisters. There is a daily Holy Liturgy in the monastery, and the daily cycle of services is conducted primarily in English. To support themselves, the sisters publish spiritual texts, make prayer ropes, and offer to over 1000 guests who visit the monastery each year a fully stocked bookstore. They also labor in cultivating the earth and tending the monastery’s flock of purebred milk goats and other animals in order to be as self-sufficient as possible.


See also

* Serbian Americans * Serbs in Canada * Serbs in South America * Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and Seminary * New Gračanica Monastery * Saint Petka Serbian Orthodox Church *
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* Episcopal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America, located at Saint Steven's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Alhambra, California * Episcopal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Buenos Aires and South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina *
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* Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery * St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery


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