Bright Wednesday in Platina and Wildwood Monasteries
BRIGHT WEDNESDAY IN PLATINA AND WILDWOOD MONASTERIES with Bishop Maxim 2019, and Fathers Vasilije Cvijanovic and Djurica Gordic
The St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood was founded in 1963 with the blessing of St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) as a missionary brotherhood for the dissemination of the Orthodox Faith primarily through the printed word.
Saint Xenia Monastery in Wildwood, California St. Xenia Skete was founded in 1979 in Trinity County, California, in response to a number of women pilgrims who visited the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery and came to fervently desire the same kind of “desert” monasticism, rare in America during those years. Fr. Seraphim was the first spiritual father for the nuns, coming from the St. Herman Monastery to hear their confessions, serve the Divine Liturgy, and to help the sisters build the Skete. St. Xenia Skete in the year 2000 was received into the Western Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America under Bishop Jovan. In 2013 Nun Dorothea, who came to the Skete in 1988, was elevated to Abbess by Bishop Maxim.
Monasticism is created and preserved by the body of the Church, and that is where it operates. It is a consequence of the mystery of the divine economy; of the incarnation of God the Word and the deification of that which He has assumed. Monasticism is created and preserved by the body of the Church, and that is where it operates. It is a consequence of the mystery of the divine economy; of the incarnation of God the Word and the deification of that which He has assumed.
