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Hand-Dipped Bees-Wax Candles From the Church of the Holy Trinity These are some of the finest hand-dipped bees-wax candles you can find anywhere. Archpriest Athanasios makes these candles with painstaking attention to detail, and with many years of experience. Custom sizes also available. To order, please contact Father Athanasios at the address below: Church of the Holy Trinity
Rectory Address: Home Phone: (608)564-2033 Email: frathan@dwave.net |
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| July 7, 2008 - New Catalogs Now Available! | |
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We are very happy to announce that, for the first time in six years, we have new catalogs available now. One of the challenges our monastery has faced for many years is the problem of keeping our catalogs up to date. Our iconographers paint new icons almost every day, and we are constantly adding new icons to our offerings. With the tools we were using to make our catalogs, if we were to insert a new icon where it would belong in the catalog, it would require us to rebuild a great number of pages following where the icon was inserted, and the entire index would also need to be updated. It was a great deal of work to make a new catalog, and because we would add new icons continuously, our catalogs would be out of date before they were even initially printed! Therefore, we have taken a new approach to how we make our catalogs. We have written a computer program which allows us to insert our new icons in the appropriate places in the catalog, and it rebuilds everything for us. It is still a good deal of work for us to update the catalog with our new icons, but it should be much more manageable now. Our current plan is to offer a new catalog quarterly. Every three months, we will do our utmost best to put out a new up-to-date catalog with all of our icons. Each catalog will have the highest icon number printed on the cover, so it will be easy for you to see how current your catalog is. In addition to this, we have purchased state of the art printing equipment which allows us to print our catalogs in color! Our color catalogs will be printed on high quality glossy paper, and will at least initially be bound in a three-ring binder. If you order our catalog printed in color, we believe you will be very impressed with its quality! We will also offer a much less expensive black & white catalog printed on standard paper, and comb bound. Printing and binding our catalogs is an expensive and labor-intensive endeavor. We would love to offer them without charge, but unfortunately, we must recoup some of this cost. We offer some of the highest quality icons available anywhere for some of the lowest prices you will find. We hope that you will not mind helping us with these costs. You may order our catalogs from here: Dormition Skete Catalogs. The catalog is now available printed in color or black and white for a nominal charge, and is also freely available for download from our website at: http://www.DormitionSkete.org/ds-catalogue.shtml This will enable you to download and print your own catalog yourself whenever you would like completely without charge. We hope you find our new catalog system to your liking. We believe this new system will provide you with the best catalog of our products possible. We thank you for your patronage. Archbishop Gregory, Please note: The color catalogs are available now. There will be a slight delay in us offering the black & white catalogs, and with the CD catalogs. We hope to offer these soon. |
| March 17, 2008 - We have added another new beautiful icon to our WebStore. This icon is in stock and available for purchase now. | |
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St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Commemorated December 6th and May 9th. |
| December 26, 2007 - We have added two new beautiful and unique icons to our WebStore. These are in stock and available for purchase now. | |
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Commemorated September 14th. |
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Ideal for children's rooms. |
| November 22, 2007 - We have added two new beautiful and unique icons to our WebStore. These are in stock and available for purchase now. | |
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"I am the vine, ye are the branches. The one who abideth in Me, and I in him, this one beareth much fruit; for apart from Me ye are not able to do anything." [Jn. 15:5] |
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This icon is a symbol of the Holy Trinity. |
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Dormition Skete rejoices to present to the Orthodox Faithful of America an all new 2008 Calendar. The 2008 Calendar has been printed in full color, indicating the fasting rules of the Church with a distinct color scheme. The Calendar has both Old and New Calendar dates. Calendar has been appropriately illustrated with numerous icons for each month, denoting the prominent feasts of the Lord and Virgin Mary, as well as prominent feast days of the more noted Saints. Each day also has an adequate space for notes. By popular request, the 2008 Calendar also includes most major Civil Holidays. On the back side of each month is a full color icon. Each month this year is adorned with an icon of one of our Twelve Holy Apostles. The cover is adorned with an icon of The Mystical Icon of the Orthodox Church - The Ark - one of our most popular icons. The 2008 Calendar is available now. November 22, 2007 - Due to the recent purchase of some new printing equipment, we are now able to offer some new Discounts and Services relating to our Orthodox Calendars. Quantity Discounts of $6.50 each, plus Shipping & Handling, are now available for orders of ten or more calendars. Custom Imprinting of your parish name and address is available free of charge on orders of twenty-five or more calendars.
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September 17, 2007 - Here at Dormition Skete Incense, we've been introducing new incense fragrances over the past couple years; and with God's help, will continue to do so for the next few years. So that our customers may have the opportunity of trying our new fragrances, and also see how they relate to our already established fragrances, we've introduced a new product to our line: the Incense Sampler. The Incense Sampler contains a portion of all our current fragrances along with some frankincense. As our product line grows over the years, so will the size and variety of the Incense Sampler. Approximate weight: 1.25 lbs. |
| September 17, 2007 - We have recently added several beautiful new icons to our WebStore. These are all in stock and available for purchase. | |
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Matching set: Ss. Joachim & Anna, and Pr. Zacharias & Elizabeth. |
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Theotokos: Vatopedi. |
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April 9, 2007 - We are happy to announce the addition of two new fragrances to our line of Hand-Rolled Aromatic Incense. Now available are Spikenard and Cassia. Spikenard, of course, should remind you of the Gospel passages of the woman who annointed our Saviour’s feet for His burial. 1Then Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had died, whom He raised from the dead. 2So they made a supper for Him there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him. 3Then Mary, having taken a pound of very precious perfumed ointment of pure spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the perfumed ointment. [Jn. 12:1-3] Likewise, cassia is mentioned a number of times in the Old Testament. 6Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Wherefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness more than Thy fellows. 7Myrrh and stacte and cassia exhale from Thy garments, from the ivory palaces, whereby they have made Thee glad, they the daughters of kings in Thine honor. 8At Thy right hand stood the queen, arrayed in a vesture of inwoven gold, adorned in varied colors. [Ps. 44:6-8] We hope you will like these two new fragrances as much as we do. |
This past year, Dormition Skete Icons has purchased new equipment which enables us to offer our customers the finest mounted icons and icon prints available anywhere any size up to 42” x 60” !!! That’s five feet tall !!!
We are now accepting orders for Custom Mounted Icons and Custom Icon Prints for any of our 385 existing icons that we currently offer. If we do not offer the icon you need, please contact us, and we will be happy to search our extensive iconography library to see if we can make that special icon that you need.
Our custom icons are all created with the newest and most advanced Digital Imaging Technologies. They are printed on state of the art printing equipment right here at our monastery, so we have complete control of every aspect of its quality.
Every icon is carefully scrutinized by the gifted eyes of our own internationally recognized iconographer, Archbishop Gregory, so that sharpness, color balance and several other artistic facets are finely tuned to produce the most aesthetically pleasing icon possible.
With profound thanks to God and to our faithful customers, we are pleased to offer you the finest selection of museum quality icons available today at remarkably low prices.
Prices are based on the size and availability of the icon. For Prices and Terms of Sale, please click here.
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Dormition Skete rejoices to present to the Orthodox Faithful of America an all new 2007 Calendar. The 2007 Calendar has been printed in full color, indicating the fasting rules of the Church with a distinct color scheme. The Calendar has both Old and New Calendar dates. Calendar has been appropriately illustrated with numerous icons for each month, denoting the prominent feasts of the Lord and Virgin Mary, as well as prominent feast days of the more noted Saints. Each day also has an adequate space for notes. By popular request, the 2007 Calendar now includes most major Civil Holidays. On the back side of each month is a full color icon. The 2007 Calendar is available now. |
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November 14, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: St. Moses the Ethiopian. This Saint is a great example of repentance -- transforming himself, with God's help, from a murderer to a great monastic Saint. |
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November 14, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: The Betrayal of Christ. This icon depicts Christ's last hours before His betrayal, and His betrayal by Judas to the Jews. It is a perfect icon to help us remember this, especially during Holy Week. |
July 27, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: The Mystical Icon of the Holy Church is taken from prototypes from the 17th Century. In the middle, of course, the Church is symbolized as a ship with Christ at the helm holding the holy Rudder. The Rudder in the Orthodox Church is the book which contains the Holy Canons which directs the Church in the proper mode of conduct and confession of Faith. Inside the Ark is the Virgin Mary, and in front of her are the four Evangelists, John, Matthew, Mark and Luke. At the bow of the ship are Peter and Paul, holding the anchor, which is shaped in a three pronged end, signifying belief in the Trinity. Behind them are the Holy Fathers of the Church, Saint John Chrysostom, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Basil the Great, St. Athanasios of Alexandria, and St. Gregory Palamas, with multitudes of holy Fathers, and Mothers, and Martyrs, etc., etc., as signified by the halos. This all symbolizes the bosom of the Church, both triumphant and militant.
On the bottom of the icon are the enemies of Christ and His Church; that is, all who have fought against Her and persecuted Her, for if one fights against the Church, he is fighting against Christ. From left to right, Antichrist is depicted as a king on his horse and behind him is an old man with a crown on his head, signifying Israel with the star of David on his crown, holding a bag of gold. He has his arm around the harlot of the Apocalypse, with her cup in her hand. Below Antichrist are those who will fight for him. Antichrist is going to come from Jewish lineage, and will reign in Jerusalem and will want all to submit to him. Those who do not will be persecuted. This is the symbolism of those who are under the caption called Antichrist and his Minions.
Next to him to the right is a dreadful looking beast, which is called New Age. New Age is a revival of paganism presented with new packaging. It encompasses the occult, which has absolutely no reverence for Christ.
Next to him is a king on a horse, with a drawn sword in his hand and he is labeled The Persecuting Ruler. Throughout the history of the Church, kings, emperors, governors, etc., have abused their power either by trying to destroy the Church, or by reaching into the realm of the Church to govern it themselves, which is forbidden to them. The Church is governed only by the bishops.
Next to him is one example, the Emperor Leo the Iconoclast, who has a spear in his hand, ready to throw it at the Ark, because he dared to take away the icons which are the glory of the Church and also a dogma which one must believe in to be Orthodox.
Next to him is Luther, with a rifle, ready to shoot. Luther, of course, rebelled against papal abuses, but instead of going back to the Orthodox Church, created his new church, which is properly named not after Christ, but after him. This man symbolizes all of Protestantism which followed his bad example.
Next to him is Lenin, with his Russian pistol carefully aimed at the heart of Christ. He tried to destroy the Russian Church by putting his own KGB agents as bishops. He killed Patriarch Tikhon, who was the heart of the Russian Church, but failed to understand that the Church is not centered around one person. The Church went into the catacombs and lived. One of the bishops of the Catacomb Church was one of the three consecrating bishops who ordained our Archbishop Gregory.
Next to him on the bottom right side is a great beast, with an open mouth, and in his mouth is Mohammed with his tumor on his back, with a drawn bow and arrow directed at the Ark. Mohammed had a tumor of dead skin that protruded from his back, which he told the Arabs was the mark of him being a prophet. Islam has subjugated the Church in the East since the eighth century.
Above him is the Pope, with a long, hooked rod, trying to pull down the bow, either to capsize the boat or redirect it in a direction contrary to the direction that Christ is steering the Ark. When the present day papacy came into being around the year 1054, the pope proclaimed himself as the vicar of Christ and also Christ on earth, thus fighting against the true Christ.
Next to him is Eftyches, the heresiarch who would not accept the decision of the 4th and 5th Ecumenical Councils that Christ has two natures: Christ is both perfect God and perfect man. Eftyches divided the Church with his followers who believed that Christ had only one nature. Therefore, he is depicted with a pointed cowl on his head, which is what the Monophysites wear to this day. Monophysites include the Copts of Egypt, and the Armenians, who are located around Palestine. Behind Eftyches is depicted the demon of the Monophysites and Monothelites.
Next above him is the "Orthodox" Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, the father of modern day Ecumenism. He also has a hooked rod, trying to redirect the path of the Church. He was a 32 degree Mason, and behind him is the demon of Masonry, who has around his waist the apron which Masons wear with the square and compass and the letter G in the middle. Masons embrace all peoples and faiths into their religion. Ecumenism accepts all religions with a desire to create a one world religion. An Orthodox bishop cannot accept Ecumenism. It is the heresy of all heresies. Because these "Orthodox" bishops accepted the false belief of all religions, not only heretical Christianity, but also Judaism and Islam, saying that "we all worship the same god", just as Masonry tries to do, they are not Orthodox, and in fact fight against the Church.
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July 27, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: The original of this icon of The Ladder of Divine Ascent is located on Mount Sinai, at Saint Catherine's monastery. St. John Climacus, wrote a book bearing the title "The Ladder of Divine Ascent." It talks about our journey to Heaven involving steps. This icon shows how difficult the climb to Heaven actually is. It shows monks on the ladder, the demons trying to pull them off, the mouth of Hades swalling up those who have fallen off, the angels lamenting over those who have fallen, and people on the earth praying for those on the ladder. But, most importantly, the icon depicts Christ at the top of the ladder, waiting for our entrance to His holy Kingdom. The artist even depicts St. John Climacus at the top of the ladder, and the one is white robes behind St. John is probably the archbishop of that time. The Archbishop's name is Antonios. |
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July 27, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: According to tradition, the wonderworking Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God is one of three painted by the hand of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke. They are contemporaries, as it were, of the Theotokos Herself. There is a wonderful legend about how this icon arrived in Russia. In 1383 it disappeared from the magnificent cathedral at Blachernae in Constantinople, which was built for it, so it was as if Our Lady Herself moved from Byzantium to Russia. During the reign of the Grand Prince of Moscow, Dimitry Donskoy, this wonderworking icon first appeared in the region of Novgorod. It appeared above the waters of Lake Ladoga, invisibly borne through the air by angels, shining with a radiant light. Many times the icon moved from place to place, healing the infirm and comforting those in sorrow. In those places where the icon stopped, pious Orthodox Christians built chapels and churches. She chose the small town of Tikhvin as her permanent place of shelter. There a church was soon built for the icon, and in time a monastery grew up around it which came to be known as the Great Tikhvin Monastery. The veneration of the icon was so great that a special window was built into the church, through which pilgrims could see the wonderworking icon and pray before it even when the church was locked. It is noteworthy that an unusual warmth issued from the hands of the Theotokos on the icon that could be felt by the lips of those who venerated it. |
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July 27, 2006 - Now available as a beautiful, digitally reproduced mounted icon: St. Pachomios with the Angel. St. Pachomios is known to us as the founder of cenobitic monasticism. This icon depicts him receiving instructions on the cenobitic life from an angel. |
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April 11, 2006 - We are happy to announce the addition of two new fragrances to our line of Hand-Rolled Aromatic Incense. Now available are Byzantine Rose and Russian Lavender. Both of these new fragrances have quickly become our favorites here at Dormition Skete. We highly recommend both. We believe you will like them as much as we do. |
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Dormition Skete rejoices to present to the Orthodox Faithful of America an all new 2006 Calendar. The 2006 Calendar has been printed in full color, indicating the fasting rules of the Church with a distinct color scheme. The Calendar has both Old and New Calendar dates. Calendar has been appropriately illustrated with numerous icons for each month, denoting the prominent feasts of the Lord and Virgin Mary, as well as prominent feast days of the more noted Saints. Each day also has an adequate space for notes. Lastly, the secular holidays of Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc., have been added. On the back side of each month is a full color icon. The 2006 Calendar is available now. |
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December 5, 2005 - We have just released two new beautiful icons for sale now, ready to be shipped to your door. A beautiful Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, with a gold riza. A beautiful Tabernacle of Witness icon, with Prophets Moses and Aaron offering incense to God. |
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November 4, 2005 - We would like to welcome you to our website, which we have completely redesigned. We have added a Web Store so you may order our mounted icons, incense, books, prayer ropes, and other products online. Please take some time to browse our new site, and perhaps you might even like to bookmark this page and check it often!
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August 19, 2005 - We have been working on expanding our current line of mounted icons. We are now offering almost Thirty (30) New Icons for 2005! Please click here to see all of our new icons for 2005. Among the new icons is a Complete Set of Fifteen Matching Festal Icons Painted by the 16th Century Master Iconographer, Theophan the Cretan, and carefully restored by the monks of Dormition Skete. Due to many requests, we have also increased the size of all of the icon images on this website. Those of you with slow dial-up connections will probably notice it taking longer to download the larger images. We hope that you will find the larger images worth the wait. Please let us know if you would like us to go back to the smaller images, which download much faster. |
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April 20, 2005 - We are happy to announce our first publication in almost twenty years. Saints Barlaam and Ioasaph, by Saint John of Damascus, is now available for purchase. Please click here for more details about this wonderful Classic of Orthodox Spirituality and Catechesis. |
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November 17, 2004 - We would like to announce to the registered users of the Orthodox New Testament Research Program that we have just released a new update to the program, and we strongly urge you to obtain this update. Among the improvements we have made to the program, is that the new version now starts much, much faster. |
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November 8, 2004 - We are happy to annouce that we now sell Orthodox Belt Buckles. Please click here for more details. |
