Announcements
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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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April 26, 2012 - The new Second Quarter 2012 Catalog is now available, and has been uploaded to our website. You may download it without charge from here, or you may purchase it from here.
We have added two beautiful new icons to our mounted icons catalog, and an entire set of icons of the Feast Days of Christ and the Mother of God. They are available now from our WebStore. Click on the icons for more information.
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January 13, 2012 - The new First Quarter 2012 Catalog is now available, and has been uploaded to our website. You may download it without charge from here, or you may purchase it from here.
We have added two beautiful new icons to our mounted icons catalog. They are available now from our WebStore. Click on the icons for more information.
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Theotokos: Calming Down / Paramythia Tradition tells of this icon that the original expression on the faces of the figures and position of the bodies of Christ and the Blessed Virgin changed when the following strange miracle occurred: when pirates had secretly landed on the shore of Mount Athos at the Monastery of Vatopedi and were hiding, waiting for the gates to open in the morning in order to launch an attack, the Abbot, who had remained behind alone after the end of Matins in order to continue his prayer, heard these words from the icon of the Blessed Virgin “Do not open the gates of the Monastery today, but go up on the walls and drive away the pirates.” As he turned to look, he saw the Holy Child stretch out His hand and cover the mouth of His mother, saying “No, Mother, let them be punished as they deserve.” But the Blessed Virgin, taking Her Son’s hand in Hers and turning Her head a little to free her mouth, repeated the same words. This last arrangement of the figures has remained permanently on the icon. The monks, miraculously saved from the pirates, gave thanks to the Theotokos and named this icon “Paramythia”, which means “calming down” or “restrain”, words which equally convey the content of the miracle. The icon is a wall-painting and is on the right choir of the chapel named after it. |
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This icon is located in the Trapeza of our monastery. |
October 12, 2011 - The new Fourth Quarter 2010 Catalog is now available, and has been uploaded to our website. You may download it without charge from here, or you may purchase it from here.
We have added two beautiful new icons to our mounted icons catalog. They are available now from our WebStore. Click on the icons for more information.
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July 3, 2011 - We’ve uploaded the Third Quarter 2011 Catalog to our
site, and it is now available for download from here,
or for purchase from here.
We have added one beautiful new icon to our WebStore – The Expulsion of Adam and Eve From
Paradise – to complete our Genesis Collection, shown below.
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Announcement About ONT Version 1 and Windows 7
June 6, 2011 - We do not have any Windows 7 machines at our monastery. However, one of our parishioners who recently purchased a Windows 7 machine has reported to us that the ONT Program installed fine on his Windows 7 machine. He did not have any of the compatibility mode problems that were associated with Windows Vista.
The only problem he had was that when he put the installation CD in his machine, it did not automatically start the installation program. He had to go into his "Windows Explorer" or "My Computer" and double-click on the "setup" icon.
He said that after that, everything worked normally.
April 18, 2011 - We're a little late this quarter, but we've uploaded the Second
Quarter 2011 Catalog to our site, and it is now available for download from here, or for purchase from here.
We have added one beautiful new icon to our WebStore. It is shown below.
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A Wonderful Western Saint. |
January 6, 2011 - We uploaded the First Quarter 2011 Catalog to our site, and
it is now available for download from here, or for
purchase from here.
We have added one beautiful new icon to our WebStore. It is shown below.
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Ideal for farmers or gardeners. |
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November 22, 2010 - New Wall Calendars Now Available. Dormition Skete rejoices to present to the Orthodox Faithful of America an all new 2011 Orthodox Wall Calendar. The 2011 Wall Calendar is 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. The 2011 Wall Calendar is 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 adequate space for notes. By popular request, the 2011 Wall Calendar also includes most major Civil Holidays. On the back side of each month is a full color icon. The cover is adorned with an icon of one of our most popular icons. This year’s theme is Icons of Christ. The 2011 Wall Calendars are available now, and are ready for shipment. Place your order now from here for immediate shipment. Quantity Discounts are now available for orders of ten or more Wall Calendars. Custom Imprinting of your parish name and address is available free of charge on orders of twenty-five or more Wall Calendars. |
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November 22, 2010 - New Detailed Orthodox Calendars Now Available. Dormition Skete rejoices to present to the Orthodox Faithful of America an all new 2011 Detailed Orthodox Calendar. The 2011 Detailed Orthodox Calendar is an 87 page, comb bound booklet, printed in Black & White, indicating the Commemorations, Feasts and Fasts, and Scripture Readings information for each day of the year. The Calendar has both Old and New Calendar dates. It is formatted in a distictive, easy to read layout, and provides the average Orthodox Christian layman or clergyman all of this type of information they would typically need. The 2011 Calendars are available now, and are ready for shipment. Place your order now from here for immediate shipment. |
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April 1, 2009
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New!!! Orthodox Blessing Crosses and Wall Crosses!!!We are happy to announce the addition of some of the finest Orthodox Blessing Crosses and Wall Crosses you are likely to find anywhere. These crosses are absolutely beautiful. These blessing crosses are made much like our icons. We print them on archival quality paper using pigments -- not ink -- so they will never fade. Using pigments also makes the finest quality prints possible. We mount them on crosses made with the same boards we use for making our mounted icons. Then we bevel, paint, and clear coat the sides much like our mounted icons. The back of the crosses are also painted and clear coated. They are 10" high, and are available in other sizes as special orders. They are very nice crosses, and we are sure you will like them very much. They are also available as unmounted prints, suitable for framing. Every Orthodox home, church or chapel should have at least one cross. |
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April 9, 2007
Large Icons!
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.
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.
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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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. |
