Monastic & Religious Links

www.contemplation.com The New Camaldoli at Big Sur, California, the nearest thing the western church has to ‘the threefold monastery’ of the eastern church - the kind of balance of monastic life we hope to establish in the Highlands at Sancti Angeli Skete.
www.taize.fr/ Taize’s bridge building with Eastern Christianity is less known than it’s other ecumenical work.Large numbers of eastern Christians make the pilgrimage to Taize.
www.belmontabbey.org Black benedictines at Hereford, England. Some of Belmont parishes are pre-reformation. Belmont Abbey runs an annual icon course ( see ‘schola’ on menu bar).
www.solesmes.com Source of the definitive Gregorian liturgical books for the Latin Rite.
www.pluscardenabbey.org Cenobitic monastery singing the office entirely in Latin Gregorian, in the west of Scotland.
www.bedegriffiths.com The Christian ashrams in India have many similarities to the ancient Celtic monastic tradition and to the skete and laura tradition of the eastern church.

www.hermitsofstbruno.com/ Diocesan hermits, developing towards a laura.
www.laycarthusians.homestead.com/ Site of lay Carthusian hermits

www.monasterechevetogne.com The bi-ritual catholic Benedictine monastery in Belgium, well known for it’s dedication and leadership in east-west relations.
www.maronitemonks.org/ Maronite monks, Petersham USA. Maronites are an Eastern Rite church which has remained affiliated to the Roman see since the fourth century.

www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/monasterieslinks.htm Brilliant links page to orthodox monasteries throughout the world.
www.interoz.com/egypt/Catherines.htm Sinai has been a Holy Site since Moses met God on the mountain, and has continued to be so for Jews and Christians.
sor.cua.edu/ChMon/index.html lists Syriac Orthodox churches and monasteries with links includes malankara churches in India, Iraq, Turkey.
www.inathos.gr/ Homepage of the Holy Mountain monasteries, heart of Orthodox monasticism.
www.orthodoxphotos.com/Monasteries_and_Churches/Mount_Athos/index.shtml Useful photo site of the monasteries of Athos.
www.lavra.kiev.ua/en/index.php The lavra of the Kiev caves - heart of the Ukraine.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/solovki1.html The hermitage monastery of the white rocks, used as a concentration camp and being renewed.
www.valaam.ru/en/ Several of us have visited this monastery, down to five monks when the Berlin wall came down it now has two hundred. It is typical of the ‘complete monastery’ - having cenobium (central community), sketes (thirteen before the Revolution, now building up to three or four), and hermitages. It is built over a series of islands and lakes.
www.valamo.fi/ Located in the lakes district of eastern Finland. Valamo lay academy includes post grad. calibre icon courses and children’s icon courses, and the monastery has a leading icon conservation laboratory.
www.orthodox-monastery.co.uk The monastery Aidan Hart founded and which has a full schema of it’s icons in the small ‘converted cowshed’ church. What I would like to see happening at Sancti Angeli.