The Monastery Trapeza
Spiritual Readings from Holy Cross Monastery
In the Orthodox monastic tradition, meals are often accompanied by spiritually edifying reading, so that soul and body may be nourished together. This podcast features weekly highlights from the trapeza readings of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV—lives of saints, patristic homilies and spiritual articles timed according to the Church’s liturgical year, and read by a monk of the monastery.
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The Life of St. Nina, Equal of the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia
From "The Life of St. Nina, Equal of the Apostles & Enlightener of Georgia, with the Service," published by Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY, 1999.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Sermon on the Baptism of Christ - St. Gregory of Nyssa
From "A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church." Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Second Series, Volume V, 1893. Repr., Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999. Access online at: https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205/npnf205.xii.iii.html
Saturday, January 14, 2023
A Conversation between Nicholas Motovilov and St. Seraphim of Sarov
From “An Extraordinary Peace: St. Seraphim, Flame of Sarov” by Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore), pp. 112-138, published by Anaphora Press, 2009 (anaphorapress.com). To learn more, visit the Father Lazarus Moore Foundation (frlazarusmoore.com).
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Sermon on the Prophecy of Isaiah, and the Names Emmanuel and Jesus - St. Philaret of Moscow
From "Select Sermons", by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, published in 1873 by Joseph Masters, London, and available in digital format for free through Google Books.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Sermon for Palm Sunday - Cyril the Monk
From the "Torzehstvonik", a collection of patristic feast-day homilies, and a forthcoming publication of the Church of the Nativity in Erie, PA.
Heiromonk Gabriel