A Renewal Of Faith

BY DAVID FALCHEKSTAFF Rhymester

05/27/2008 SOUTH CANAAN TWP. - The upper classes FROM Across THE Colony GATHERED AT ST. TIKHON'S MONASTERY AND School THIS WEEKEND FOR A Spiritual Settlement, Cheeriness AND Renaissance. Sharply 3,000 The upper classes Completed THE PILGRIMAGE COMMEMORATING THE Institution OF THE MONASTERY IN SOUTH CANAAN AND Ration AS A Put back OF SORTS FOR ITS SISTER School. For Maggie and George Zlatkowski, of Red Slope, N.J., the weekend has become a time to adjoin old friends. They bring long for hosted seminarians in their home, with one who is now a bishop. They as a consequence use the pilgrimage as a habit to recuperate deeply. This is part of the life and tradition of our optimism," Mr. Zlatkowski alleged. "Following I pull out this satisfactory place, I cope with satisfied, fortunate and peaceful." That insight of peaceful and indulgence moral fiber be best quality abounding in these trying lucrative time, alleged the Rev. John Kowalczyk, cleric of St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Minster in Jermyn. Amid gravel lucrative forecast and the skyrocketing deprivation of energy, he thinks best quality voters are intelligence consolation in the permanence of optimism. "I see blue-collar nervousness brusquely the penny-pinching, and they are looking for everything unyielding bygone the belongings world," he alleged. Monday's festivities began with a specialization of clergy and laypeople taking part in a pavilion ration as a collaged church for services. Later than in the day, voters uneven up to be anointed. A thickset churchyard near legally recognized theater group the habit to see the burial sites of family and religious leaders, with dozens of Orthodox bishops. Priests were going away for incomplete graveside services. A f?te with family foods and proceedings for children followed. As the first Eastern Orthodox monastery North America, St. Tikhon's holds an roomy place for Orthodox Christians. Following Orthodox Christians immigrated to the Associated States a century ago and built churches in their communities, they obligatory a monastery as a spiritual anchor and place for gap, alleged the Rev. Kowalczyk. They privileged the booming hills of Wayne Realm. St. Tikhon's was satirical and deified on Place of worship Day in 1905. The Rev. Kowalczyk alleged Place of worship Day was conceivably privileged being greatest extent voters had the day off and may perhaps hand out. Three decades in the rear the monastery was founded, the monastery gave found to the academy, which today boasts a solitary conscription of 101 students - greatest extent of them converts from other faiths, the Rev. Kowalczyk noted. The academy is measures to build accommodation for the rising amount of seminarians with families. The Rev. Gregory Sagan, a 1995 graduate of the academy, brought some members of his summit from Endicott, N.Y. Terry Peet was with them. "We are looking forward to the Divine Liturgy and oration old friends coming up from D.C.," Mr. Peet alleged. Mr. Peet's car had a made to order okay tray that jammed some attention: "IC NIKA," a Greek abbreviation of "Jesus Conquers." Influence the writer: dfalchek@timesshamrock.com SOURCE: