Monastery of the Holy Martyrs - Syriac Orthodox

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St. Isaac the Syrian and the Fullness of the Desert

Video about St. Isaac of Syria, a desert monastic who became the Bishop of Nineveh. The great luminary of the life of stillness, he became a monk at a young age. He was consecrated Bishop of Nineveh but after five months received permission to return to solitude. He spent many years far south of Nineveh in the mountainous regions of Beit Huzaye, and lastly at the Monastery of Rabban Shabur. He wrote his renowned and God-inspired Ascetical Homilies toward the end of his long life of monastic struggle, about the end of the seventh century. The fame of his Homilies grew quickly, and about one hundred years after their composition they were translated from Syriac into Greek by two monks of the Monastery of Mar Sabbas in Palestine, from which they spread throughout the monasteries of the Roman Empire and became a guide to the hesychasts of all generations thereafter.

Monastery of the Holy Martyrs - Orthodox Monastery, Syriac Orthodox

 Have you stopped the monastery's new web site?  Come on by and visit, either on line or in person.  I love meeting new folks and make new friends.  I have never met anyone I did not like even those  who I seem to often and don't like me.  Lots of time they are the nicest people Christians, Jews, Muslims, and even Atheists are all welcome here. And we usually have coffee...and tea for those who want that.  nd some times the monastery's awesome soup.  It's awesome because my mother taught me how to make it.  But hers even even better and more awesome.



Monastery of the Holy Martyrs - Orthodox Monastery, Syriac Orthodox

What we Do

 Monks and nuns pray for us.  Because of monks and nuns, we are always remembered before God. What a great gift! Monks and nuns live away from the rest of the world in communities called monasteries.

  What we Do

GO - Mission: Witness, Part 5 —

 "We are not here on a vacation.  We are here on a mission."

 GO - Mission: Witness, Part 5 —

Heretics and Heresies Were Apart of the Orthodox Church But Truth Prevailed