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Greetings in the Lord!

The brotherhood of St. Herman welcomes you to our website. As we build our site up, we hope to provide a means to keep you up-to-date on events and the work of the St. Herman Monastery.

Here you will find information about the monastery, our schedule of services, a guide for pilgrims, as well as news, publication announcements, photos of recent events and the pictures of the monastery.

We also have a web-store for ease in accessing books and The Orthodox Word through the brotherhood’s publishing ministry, St. Herman Press.  

Visit our new online store by clicking HERE.

Nativity of Christ 2017/18

Christ Is Born! On the night of Dec. 24-25, 2017 (Jan. 6-7, 2018, new style), we celebrated the Vigil of the Nativity of Christ, with the Divine Liturgy. Afterwards we had a festal meal in our trapeza with the opening of Christmas gifts. Here we share some photos of the celebration.

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Christ Is Born!

Greetings with the Feast of the Nativity according to the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ! On this joyous and grace-filled day, when we celebrate the Incarnation of God, we would like to share some inspiring words from our local Serbian Saint, the newly canonized St. Sebastian Dabovich of San Francisco and […]

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Bishop Maxim Visits for the Feast of Transfiguration, 2017

On August 18-19, 2017, His Grace Bishop Maxim visited the St. Herman Monastery in Platina, California and the nearby St. Xenia Skete in Wildwood to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. His Grace had made an episcopal visit to the monastery and skete less than a month earlier, on July 26-27, and […]

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Holy Week, Pascha, and Bright Tuesday, 2017

Christ is Risen! Greetings with Bright Week, the Afterfeast of the Resurrection of Christ! Christ, being the incarnate God, is in the Apostle Peter’s words the “Author of Life” (Acts 3:15). Death, in His case, could mean naught but resurrection. “He loosed the pains of death,” preached St. Peter, “for it was not possible that […]

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The Nativity of Christ 2016

Christ is Born! Greetings with the Afterfeast of our Lord’s Nativity! We’re sharing photos of our Christmas Eve and Christmas celebrations this year. We received snowfalls both before and after the feast this year, covering the forest as if to match the white church covers and vestments of the feast. May the joy of our […]

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Pilgrimage to Mount Athos

From November 7 to 23, 2016, Abbot Damascene and Monk Ignaty of the St. Herman Monastery made a pilgrimage to Greece, including the Holy Mountain of Athos. They first visited holy places in and around Thessaloniki, including the churches of St. Demetrios and St. Gregory Palamas, and the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in […]

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  • Nativity of Christ 2017/18
  • Christ Is Born!
  • Bishop Maxim Visits for the Feast of Transfiguration, 2017
  • Holy Week, Pascha, and Bright Tuesday, 2017
  • The Nativity of Christ 2016
  • Pilgrimage to Mount Athos
  • From the Monastery Icon Studio
  • Visit of the Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon of Hawaii
  • Radonitsa, 2016
  • Holy Week and Pascha, 2016
  • New Icons on the Royal Doors
  • Bishop Maxim and Fr. Vasileios Thermos Visit the Monastery
  • The Feast of Theophany, 2016
  • The Feast of the Nativity of Christ, 2015
  • St. Herman’s Day, December 12/25, 2015.
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