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The participants of the multinational Orthodox youth camp ‘Saint Andrew 2004’
on a visit to the Strumica monasteries ( 18.07.2004 )

Within the multinational youth Orthodox camp Saint Andrew 2004, organised by the Movement for Culture of Living from Skopje (a non-governmental organisation founded in the year 2000), today on a pilgrimage the camp participants visited few of the revived monasteries of the Strumica diocese.

 

                                

                   the church of Saint Gregory Palamas in Strumica                                                                            the church interior

 

Their visit here began with paying reverence in the monastery of the Holy Great-martyr Leontius in Vodoča, after which they left for the female monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos Eleusa in Veljusa. Following the meal and the walk around the monastery complex in Veljusa, answering the questions of this group of young God-seekers, their host in the diocese, Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica, spoke to them about the foundations of the ascetical and hesychastic struggle of Orthodox spirituality. Afterwards, the guests payed reverence in the church built a few years ago in honour of the Venerable hesychast Gregory Palamas in Strumica.

             Veljusa, the porch of the church of the Most Holy Theotokos

 

In the course of the day the campers of Saint Andrew 2004  visited the male monastery of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Bansko and the new male monastery of Saint Anthony the Great in Novo Selo, the opening of which is due in August.

 

                                

                          the monastery of the Holy Forty                                                                  work rooms in the monastic quarters (Bansko)

                                   Martyrs of Sebaste

 

The Orthodox youth camp Saint Andrew 2004 (situated in the premises of the monastery of Saint Andrew in Matka) consists of thirty-five young people from Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. It is a multilateral opportunity for a fruitful mutual communication of young Orthodox Christians members of various ethnical structures – with the mission of finding and establishing of the single Orthodox spiritual platform for building up and authentic development of the person, which in its nature exhausts and surpasses the national marks of the cultural heritage and of the collective ethnical habitus.

 

            

 

                                          the male monastery in Novo Selo                    the male monastery (Saint Anthony the Great), Novo Selo

                                                  (to be opened soon)