In central Colorado, far from the traditional centers of Orthodoxy in Constantinople, Moscow and Mount Athos, is a small monastery where five monks live together on the sagebrush foothills of the Buffalo Range. (religion-online.org)
This year i have the privilege to celebrate Christmas once more at a small monastery in a lovely lake region of my native Austria. (nakedpastor.com)
And the social side of my year in Germany provides many treasured memories: cheerful trips to the mountains, nice gatherings in someone's house, and the magnificent evening concerts in the small monastery nearby. (sciencemag.org)