Welcome to the website of Dormition Skete, located in the mountains outside of beautiful Buena Vista, Colorado. We are an Orthodox Christian monastery, living according to the traditions handed down to us by the holy fathers and mothers of the Orthodox Church.
Our monastery is entirely self-supporting. We do not solicit contributions for our continuing existence, although we do greatly appreciate them.
Dormition Skete offers some of the finest icons available in the world. We offer hand-painted panel icons and frescoes, as well as mounted icons. Further, we also produce some of the highest quality incense available, along with many other products relating to the Orthodox Faith.
Holy Apostles Convent, our sister monastery, translates the Holy Scriptures and the Lives of the Saints from the original Greek texts, and publishes them in extraordinarily high quality books. All of the convent publications are lavishly adorned with icons throughout the text for the reader's edification and enjoyment. Please take the time to visit their website, too, at http://www.HolyApostlesConvent.org
Please take some time to explore our website, and we hope you will order some of the fruits of our labors.
Standard Mounted Icon Quantity Discounts
Buy 5 or more Standard Mounted Icons - Receive 5% Off. Buy 10 or more Standard Mounted Icons - Receive 10% Off.
Offer not valid for Unmounted Icon Prints and Custom Icons.
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Buy any 5 or more Books - Receive 30% Off.
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New Publications !!!
A handheld prayer book for the private and family devotions of Orthodox Christians. It contains daily prayers, services that may be read by laymen, prayers for specific circumstances, an assortment of akathists and canons, and special prayers taken from the Church fathers directed against the vices and for the acquisition of virtues. This book is a necessity for every Orthodox household, and it contains a greater variety of prayers than typical prayer books (see Table of Contents). The book uses traditional English and includes a ribbon bookmark.
Sturdy 5”x8” Smyth-sewn hardcover book, with gold-stamped spine and cover, and a ribbon
bookmark.
404 pages.
The Prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian: Homilies for the Great Fast
by Archbishop Innokenty (Borisov) of Kherson and Taurida (1800–1857)
Originally published in Russian in 1844, this collection of eleven homilies translated into English come from the brilliant mind of the Blessed Archbishop Innokenty, one of the most gifted preachers of the nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox Church. These sermons are based on the virtues and vices enumerated in the famous Prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian recited multiple times daily during the Great Fast: “O Lord and Master of my life, a spirit of idleness, despondency, ambition, and idle talk give me not. But a spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love vouchsafe unto Thy slave. Yea, O Lord King, grant that I may look upon mine own sins and not condemn my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto the ages of ages. Amen.” Archbishop Innokenty’s homilies are outstanding for their insightfulness and deep understanding of fallen human nature, for he always endeavored to make Christian teaching less abstract and lifeless and to put it into comprehensible language. He offers excellent practical advice for Christians to battle against their vices and foster the virtues. The archbishop was well-known in his time as a superlative preacher, and his works were translated into many foreign languages and circulated through both Eastern and Western Europe. Blessed Innokenty had a profound impact on the souls of those who read his books, which encouraged them to change their ways and follow a new path of life. The homilies in this book cover the topics of: repentance, idleness, despondency, ambition, idle talk, chastity, humility, patience, love, self-reproach, and perseverance.
5”x8” softcover book, with gold-stamped cover.
58 pages.
