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Join us for our Spring Work Day on May 18th!
Volunteers helping us weed and mulch a garden.The world is beginning to turn green again, and you know what that means! It's time to invite you all to our Spring Work Day! We hope you can join us for...
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Spring at the Monastery
We hope you all are having a blessed celebration of Pentecost! We're really enjoying this spring season. For community recreation a couple weeks ago, Mother Cecilia took us on a little adventure down...
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Our First Ever Summer Picnic - Saturday, July 6th
We'd like to invite you to our Monastery Summer Picnic on Saturday, July 6, 2024. This is the first time we're doing this, and we're looking forward to this opportunity to welcome anyone who would like...
View ArticleMother Theodora granted exclaustration
Mother Theodora, of her own volition, petitioned for and has been granted exclaustration (leave of absence) from the monastery for two years. We greatly value your prayers during this time of...
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New Issue of Pomegranate Blossoms
After a long hiatus, we finally published a new issue of Pomegranate Blossoms! Some of the "news" isn't so "new" at this point, but we still hope you enjoy the photos from our chapel renovations, a...
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Early Summer Updates: A Time of Gratitude
Early summer has been for us a time of gratitude for the Father’s provision and care. We want to thank all those who came out for our Spring Work Day! Many families and individuals joined us for...
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Obedient Unto Sickness
A Reflection by Mother PetraDuring the Great Fast, we were blessed to visit the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. We arrived in time to join the nuns for prayer...
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The Bridegroom's Appeal (a change to this year's benefit event)
Donate Online HereDear friends of Christ the Bridegroom Monastery,We hope that you are well! We are having a year blessed by God, full of liturgical and contemplative prayer and times of...
View ArticleThe Bridegroom's Appeal 2024 Video
Here is a short video produced by David Bratnick about the change in our benefit event for this year. Enjoy!Donate to the appeal here
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Fall Work Day & Cookout, October 12
Join the nuns of Christ the Bridegroom Monastery for a day of work projects (outside and inside), prayer, food and fun at the monastery on Saturday, October 12. Volunteers of all ages and abilities are...
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Sugar Maple Country
Geauga County is known for its sugar maple trees. This time of year we can hardly handle the beauty! Here is a photo from our grounds taken by Mother Gabriella, and a poem written by Mother...
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Please pray for Maddie & Rose, entering Sunday
It is with great joy that we ask you to please pray for two young women as they enter our monastery as dokimoi (postulants) on Sunday, December 15. Here are some very basic facts about them and some...
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The Entrance of Maddie & Rose
Christ the Bridegroom Monastery received two new dokimoi (postulants) during Vespers on Sunday, December 15. Madison ("Maddie") Hebert is from the Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church...
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Mother Gabriella to speak at Women's Retreat Day, Jan. 25, Solon, Ohio
Mother Gabriella will again be the speaker for the Women's Retreat Day sponsored by Holy Resurrection Parish (but this year happening at St. John's in Solon). And Bishop Robert will celebrate the...
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Christ is Born!
To our dear family and friends,We pray that you have a blessed celebration of the birth of our Lord and that you may rejoice in hope in His salvation even in the midst of the brokenness and suffering...
View ArticleWe reached our goal for the Bridegroom's Appeal!
On this final day of 2024, we want to express a huge thank you to all of the benefactors of our Bridegroom's Appeal! We reached our goal with a donation total of $115,039! This amount will be matched...
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You're invited to a talk by Mother Cecilia in Aliquippa, PA
All are invited to this pre-Lenten morning of reflection with a talk by Mother Cecilia:Prepare to enter the Great Fast by renewing your relationship with the One who loves you deeply and wants to pour...
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Join Mother Natalia and Mother Gabriella on pilgrimage
There is still space available on this pilgrimage led by Fr. Michael O'Loughlin and Mother Natalia (with Mother Gabriella also attending)! Here is a link to a video with Fr. Michael and Mother Natalia...
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A message for the Great Fast from our hegumena, Mother Cecilia
“In this short time You have arranged to heal the great wounds of our soul.”I typically dread the start of the Great Fast; this ascetical season is so incredibly difficult, beyond my strength—the...
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Two unique Lenten prayer opportunities with the nuns
The Great Canon of St. Andrew of CreteWe will lead a special Lenten service, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, on Thursday, April 3, at St. Mary Magdalene Byzantine Catholic Church in Fairview...
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The Coming of the Bridegroom
It's the week of the Bridegroom (Great & Holy Week). Bishop Robert and a chapel full of guests joined us this morning for Bridegroom Matins, our patronal commemoration.Enjoy this reflection written...
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Pulled up by the Wrist
A Paschal Reflection by Mother CeciliaMy favorite part of the icon of the Descent into Hades is the way Jesus is pulling up Adam and Eve by their wrists. This depiction communicates that He is the one...
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You're invited to our spring work day & summer picnic
Spring Work Day & CookoutSaturday, May 31We invite you to join us for a day of outdoor and indoor work projects, prayer, food and fun at the monastery and the Shrine of Our Lady of Mariapoch on...
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Today is the 30th Anniversary of Orientale Lumen
On this day thirty years ago, May 2, 1995, St. John Paul II published his Apostolic Letter, Orientale Lumen (Light of the East), which was a significant inspiration for the foundation of our monastery!...
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Pope Leo XIV's address to the Eastern Churches
This morning, Pope Leo XIV addressed the bishops and other members of the Eastern Catholic Churches who are gathered in Rome for the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches (one of the events of this Jubilee...
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