Papa Ephraim of Alaska
On December 19th following Divine Liturgy, we will host Papa Ephraim, the spiritual father of St Nilus Skete, in Kodiak, Alaska. Papa Ephraim is a graduate of MIT and lived for three years on Mount Athos, in the Monastery of Philotheou under the guidance of Elder Ephraim, one of St. Joseph the Hesychast’s five disciples. He came with Elder Ephraim in 1995 along with five other monks from Philotheou, to the Sonoran desert in Florence, Arizona to help begin St. Anthony’s Monastery, the largest of the 17 monasteries begun by Elder Ephraim in North America. He served as the cell attendant for Elder Ephraim for two decades until shortly before the Elder’s repose on December 7, 2019. He is an accomplished chanter and has composed thousands of pages of Byzantine music in English and even in Japanese! He is translator and editor of a number of books, and most recently published The Angelic Life: A Vision of Orthodox Monasticism. He will be offering a talk entitled “Lessons I Learned Living with Elder Ephraim.”
Orthros 5PM
Divine LIturgy 6PM
Supper following in the Fellowship Hall
