Greek-Orthodox: Monastery Of St.Catherien, Sinai (Egypt) • Abbeys and Monasteries
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- For 16 centuries ancient St.Catherine's monastery has braved the elements in the harsh Sinai mountains, a tiny Christian island in an Islamic sea, where past ages of Byzantine greatness have been preserved in the world's finest icon collection and an library surpassed by the great Vatican Library only. As a monk says: "God's capital on earth must be Sinai, because it is here where he wrote his laws"...This is the place of the Burning Bush, Moses and the Tenm Commandments, the Dance around the Golden Calf and the Ark of the Covenant.
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I was blessed to serve five months in St. Katherine in 1974. It was the most profound experience of my life. Glory to God.
Are you christian
I visit St. Catherine’s Monastery tomorrow. I am very excited!
I hope your visit fulfilled your hopes.
By GOD’S GRACE I LIVED IN ST CATHERINES FOR SIX MONTHS 48 YEARS AGO-
@Ämichai Schneller you must write to the Economo Sinai, the Housemaster and ask permission to visit.
God bless you
God bless you!
I spent about a week working with the monks ( in a small way) in 1990, enjoyed it very much, and, although I am not Orthodox, have deep respect and Love for the fathers who live and work there,; I climbed Mount Sinai, on my own, got to the top! All I heard was an invisible radio ( the egyptian guides were all asleep) playing, Elvis singing “mus ich denn, muss i den, zum staetele hinaus, und nun mein Schatz bleibt hier” telling me to return to the World outside... which i did, walking back to Israel (&a bus ride), keeping my fond memories,till today, nearly 72 now, Love God, nothing else is important to me. With Love, John
I dream to visit this holy place..
Me too ... Hopefully ...
Pray to visit St. Catherine's.
Prayer is better than dreams.
@Gisselle ST Women are allowed to visit Saint Catherine's in Mount Sinai, last time I checked.
I relive my visit to the Monastery of St Catherine as often as I can. I never felt like leaving this Holy place. I have returned with much peace and silence.
My father who is an Orthodox priest visited the Holy Land in 1999, but missed out on visiting St. Catherine's. The monastery just wasn't a part of his tour, for some reason.
I pray that one day that we will be able to take the whole family to the Holy Land, including St. Catherine's.
Oh, how I would like to go here one day! May God give me this chance.
Me too. I visited all the major site of the Holy Land except here. (My tour didn't go that way). I hope someday to visit the Holy Land again with my Family and hope that visit includes St. Catherine's in the trip.
@@johnstavropoulos7049 είναι πολύ όμορφη η Αίγυπτος να πάρεις και το τραίνο το τουριστικό να πας από Αλεξάνδρεια η καιρο κάτω στο λουξορ δίπλα από τον Νείλο!
May God grand your wish. God bless you
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner!
I named my daughter Catherine, in respect to St. Catherine of Mount Sinai
I love the name Catherine!
this is ghassanid church you know?! when Sinai was part of Palestine and levant built in the 5th century documented as ghassanid in the historical records there is no greek churchs in Sinai NEVER ,they put their hands on it in the ww1 and claim it
Egypt is Christian from the beginning and this is an orthodox monastery since from it's built
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yah but it's not Greek it's ghassanid christian and Sinai in the six century was annexed for their ghassanid kingdom
@@messianic_scam I didn't know what kingdom was,but I know wad Christians who build it,this is important and more important is that God protect it 🙏❤☦
I love the Beduins who love and help the monks and the monks love and help them.A lesson to the...civilised West.
blessings to the brothers and their consacration and ministry, may the lord bless their vocation always and forever, and their families and their monastery and everyone that prays for them and with them, I join their prayer and entrust myself to their intercession
Such a shame that the British Library and British Museum will not return the Codex Sinaiticus. It needs to return home.
It’s a short trip from British avarice and all sorts of world misery, injustice and Imperialism.
British as country steal alot of history
But better to be there, for they would be preserved there well
I am British, and this is a travesty
@@maryjemyfreeman7639 I don't know the will of God for the Codex, but two things: 1) Its a newer idea to believe that all it takes to be preserved well is to stick a thing behind glass in a climate which is controlled. The monks at Sinai are a part of a LIVING Tradition. The use, veneration, appreciation, love, and care for the holy things there are a part of that. Without that history, no one in the intellectual world would even care about the codex, and yet, it seems too difficult for those who run museums to accept that this is not just an item of antiquity, but is a thing of CURRENT living truth and should perhaps be returned so its use could be fulfilled around the people who pray. This would be different if the monks were just reenacters. Theyre not pretending. I have a hard time believing the British Museum could steal one of the most important texts of the Sentinilese tribe just for its preservation and the western minds curiosity when the tribe is still alive and wanting to use it. 2) St Katherine's currently has a state-of-the-art library. There is no reason the museum could not entrust it to Sinai even if they were afraid for its preservation. The monastery is a world heritage site and the library is considered immensely important from a historical/scientific standpoint.
Many items have been stolen because of various reasons, lost during wars for instance. It's a controversial thing, of course. Many people believe all of those artifacts should stay in museums. Personally, I believe they should be returned to families and churches when the right lineage is found. We know that Sinai wants the Codex back and that this was its home.
I hope this was helpful -Kat
Watching this documentary is itself a mystical experience 🙏
I was blessed to stay in Cairo, Egypt for 6 months in 2006. On a weekend, we went to Dahab on the Red Sea and from there, we visited St. Catherine's monastery. We didn't walk to the top of the mountain, but rather walked about 45 minutes uphill, then walked down. What a magical experience - even to this day.
20:53 a life lesson for all of us watching.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called Sons of God"
~Mathew 5:9
Saint Sava ☦ stayed there in 13th century. Monastery has oldest saved Psaltir written in old Serbian Cyrillic on 200+ pages
listening a monk saying words of Aristotle as a theological example makes me very happy and proud for my heritage
I want visit this beautiful place one day
I enjoyed this video very much. Fascinating information the world should know.😇🙏
Iam greek orthodox I love this
Thank you for this video of Saint Catherine's Monastery
The monastery is wonder-filled...I visited there in 2002 while I was in school at St. George College, Jerusalem. I have never visited any place like before or since. If I was not entering the winter of my seasons I would asked to join them.
Ahhhhhhhh :) that is SO grace-filled! You can keep visiting them??
@Rafal Omnom Oh look, another one with no clue of church history, spouting slander.
Rafal Omnom Typical iconoclast. Go study Church history and the 7th Ecumenical Council in particular. Idols are not the same as icons.
Rafal Omnom they are not idols and they are not worshipped. God and Jesus are the way in Orthodox religion. But we also recognize the saints for their works and Mary for bringing the son of God into our world. You’re confusing worship with their recognition. We believe God and Jesus are the most high. This is the origin of Christianity and they hold the most ancient texts from around Jesus’ time. European kings LATER changed the Bible and teachings, to benefit THEIR own personal desires and needs. Orthodox religion has stayed the same since the dawn of Christianity. Everything is taught the same, always. It takes years to study and practice to become a priest. Other Christians depend on the interpretation of the pastor’s perspective on the scriptures, which is never the same. Even your Christian religion originated here and was later changed. Study your history.
@Rafal Omnom
Greeks like to give a picture to their gods its good ! We are not uneducated primitive muslims after all
🇬🇷 Ελλάς θρησκεία ορθοδοξία ☦
AMHN
It’s amazingly beautiful monastery. Thanks for posting this wish I could visit this place
Please pray for BIANCA MARIA health,NICOLETA SI DIANA! PLEASE PRAY FOR VICTORIA AND NIKOLAS!
Me tqfuuhh
First of all wonderful video! Secondly. For anyone who loves this Greek monastery and finds it special. If you may not know, also research about Athos the holy mountain. Which is the the most special place in all of Orthodoxy. It's so special, it's special among all these special places. It's the only monastic state in the world, and it's the only place that still maintains Byzantine time.
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They fly a Byzantine flag, but I was wondering what "Byzantine time" was.
I've never heard of it. Is it GMT-2? Because that's just Greek Time. I think you mean the Julian Calendar instead though, right? The one named after Julius Caesar? Everyone uses the Gregorian Calendar now, because it marks Leap Years better? That is, except for most of the Orthodox Church, they still use the Julian Calendar, that is never, ever called "Byzantine time", ever?
What were you doing, trying to inform people by misinforming them there? The Orthodox Churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland (from 15 June 2014), North Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Greek Old Calendarists, of which the Monastery of St Catherine is a part of, all use the Julian Calendar to mark feasts, meaning that Christmas Day is on the 7th January by everyone else's Gregorian Calendar, but that's the 25th of December on the Julian Calendar, or "Roman time" if you find the concept of calendars threatening in some way.
Except for the Church of Ukraine now, they use the Gregorian calendar since the invasion.
Transcendental place! I'm not an Orthodox but I'd love to visit it someday!
So sad that people cut the books in the library!
My dream is to visit this beautiful site when I visit my family in Cairo. It gives me peaceful and spiritual feelings. Thank you my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I love the pantocrator sinai icon 10:55 It's beautiful and theologically deep.
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I pray that I see this place before I die.
I hope you 🙏
God even though the path a walk isn’t always easy I am thankful that leads to your path of righteousness🙏🏻 Lod lead me where you will I will always follow you have mercy Lord and hear our prayers 💝 Australia Melbourne🇬🇷
lol this church has nothing to fo with you infiltrators
Recommend beautiful documentary by Philip Gröning"Into Great Silence",monks from 11st..
Mar Awgin founded a monastery on Mt. Izla above Nisibis in Mesopotamia (~350), and from this monastery the cenobitic tradition spread in Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia and even India and China.
Mar Saba organized the monks of the Judaean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem (483), and this is considered the mother of all monasteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.[15]
St. Benedict of Nursia founded the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy (529), which was the seed of Roman Catholic monasticism in general, and of the order of Benedict in particular.
St. Bruno of Carthusia, prompted by the spectre of the damnation of the Good Doctor of Paris Cenodoxus, founded a monastery just outside Paris in the 11th Century.
In both the East and the West, cenobiticism established itself as the primary form of monasticism, with many foundations being richly endowed by rulers and nobles. The excessive acquisition of wealth and property led to several attempts at reform, such as Bernard of Clairvauxin the West and Nilus of Sora in the East.
Mar Saba holds the relics of St. John of Damascus, the great saint who secured the Holiness and veneration of Holy Icons, teaching correctly that the veneration of the Holy person in the Icon is not idolatory but veneration in respect of the Saint or Christ therein and likened the Icon to a kind of window through whom the veneration passes.
Thank you for sharing the Monastic details and information.
Glory to God for the preservation of The Faith and the Monastics who pray for the needs of the whole world.
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What they feel is their very dna, when man lived for spirit and not material pleasures like today..
Hallelujah 🙏from India
I have been there!! Amazing!!
Everything deserves to be preserved, it's so beautiful, everyone has their own lovely spiritual journey❤❤❤❤I'm so excited for the beautiful spiritual growth of humanity. Everything will lead us to appreciate what matters❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
LIFE SPEAKS LOUDER THAN THUNDERING SERMONS 😊
I have the icon at 11:00 in my house, it is my favorite one ☦️❤️
Could you please tell me which icon it is, as I'm totally blind. I can listen to these videos, and my screen-reading software allows me to read these comments and the text in the description and use the player features. I can also hear what I'm typing, so I have no excuse for mistakes! I've wanted to visit St. Catherine's Monastery ever since I became Orthodox Christian. There's also a video with Ian Holmes, who became Orthodox Christian as a result of his many months and years of study and personal experiences while there. I believe it's called "Where God Walked on Earth". I wish I could upload it onto RUclips, but alas, I don't have the means to patch-record it from my VCR to RUclips. Maybe someone else might have it?
Anyway, thanks in advance for filling me in on that Holy Icon, because there are some over there you can't find anywhere else.
@@heatherstub it's The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine's Monastery at Sinai. It's one of the oldest Byzantine icons of Christ.
@@andys3035 Oh yes. Thank you so much. I've heard of it from another documentary. Thanks for the reply, and God bless you.
@@heatherstub God bless you ☦️
May peace of God will be with monastery , and Sinai and Egypt !!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Blessed place🙏 all glory to God
So. Beautiful
Wonderful!
May God bless all people.
Beautiful video.
wow, thank you so much for this nice video. This monastery contains very much of Serbian heritage. We know about the Mount Serbal which means "Serbian Mountain". God bless you all.
One day I will visit
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Thank you for thjs wonderful video. I think it's one of he best about the St Catherines Monastry. Years ago, we were in this area and a part of our group made a trip to the Mount Sinai. I coudn't join th group. But now I think I've seen more in the videos, than the groups with thousands of tourists. God bless the monasry and it's inhabitants. I love the new bibliothek and other points.
Muchas gracias
Wonderful
Very interesting and informative
Revelation 1:12-15 KJV
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
I hope every page of every book has been photographed & put on line by now
Excellent composition!
From Misión Cruz Hermitage in Somerset, Texas. Blessings
Slava Gospodu,da me je put naveo na Sv.Katerinu.
Pojanje u manastiru i sluzba je i danas duboko u mome malom srcu.
Bog Vas blagoslovijo,a molitvama Sv.Katarine da Vam zdravlja podari.
Braci i sestrama mojim.
This is so amazing, I love it so much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Beautiful place❤❤❤❤I love this lifestyle❤❤❤❤❤
23:15 - face in the mountain right in the middle
Thanks for the video
Please check on time 10:56
Christ Pantocrator
I was looking for the original icon of Christ pantocrator located in St. Catherine's Monastery In Egypt's Sinai, in the last couple of days 😁
So, there is it!! Right?? At St Catherine's in Sinai - Did you Visit?? Did you go?? Did you find it?? Sorry - just curious :)
Revelation 1:13-15 KJV
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
thank you !
Please, let the monks in peace. Not cameras not tourists!!!! No filming... Let them in peace!
Let them what in peace
@@littlerateater to live peacefully!
@@littlerateater”let them in peace” may be a little old fashioned, but it’s still grammatically correct.
They wouldn’t have been able to make any of this without the monks’ permission, and plus places like this make almost all their money from tourism. They wouldn’t be able to persist without it, at this point, especially because religion is becoming less and less prevalent worldwide. And even more rare is religious people who have enough money to travel to these places, and then make a considerable enough donation to actually be useful to the monks. Those buildings are a thousand years old, and need constant restoration and maintenance. Expensive maintenance. The monks allow it, because it is mutually beneficial for them and the tourists. Like the guy says in the video, they consider it everyones monastery and all have equal right to tread there. they regulate it stiffly, but there isn’t really an alternative other than to accept it and take advantage of the benefits it offers, while also mitigating over-intrusion to protect the site and the privacy of the monks. It’s fine, so long as it’s supervised and regulated. And moreso, in a modern world, it has become necessary, so it is tolerated, or even welcomed by many.
@@kadoj Turism has become a plague and those peaceful places are fully disturbed by its presence. I do not believe they want that. And there are for them still many ways to receive donations to survive.
Stop massive turism worldwide!!
Την πανεύφημον νύμφην Χριστού υμνήσωμεν, Αικατερίναν την θείαν και πολιούχον Σινά, την βοήθειαν ημών και αντίληψιν ότι εφίμωσε λαμπρώς, τους κομψούς των ασέβων, του Πνεύματος τη μαχαίρα, και νυν ως Μάρτυς στεφθείσα, αιτείται πάσι το μέγα έλεος.
Let us praise the all-glorious nymph of Christ, Catherine, the divine and patroness of Sinai, our help and understanding that she brilliantly silenced the elegant ones of the ungodly, the sword of the Spirit, and now as a crowned Martyr, she asks for great mercy.
Its truly a holy ground. But forgive where do they get their food to eat, water to drink and electricity to light up the entire monastery? It is truly living in a solitude and peaceful life. The Monastery should keep the visitors only in numbers to preserve the holiness of the place.
You grow your own food
Thanks you my dears
Praise To the Lord Halleluyah Amen. 🙏
It is beautiful but, the visitors should take there shoes of
Thank you
In St. Catherine's monastery you can see the first depiction of Jesus Christ in the world, which was the model for all the others.
THANK YOU!!!
I'm surprised how many American visitors are shown in the video. I'd love to visit. But the Sinai peninsula seems too delicate, not to mention the pandemic either.
May the holy virgin and the son bless u guys.
Bless God
Awesome!
mesmerizing
I do like how monks are not buried beneath the ground. Come the new creation, where we're resurrected, it just seems more convenient not to be 6' under.
Praise the lord god jesus the CHRIST
The monk should be using special gloves to open books of antiquity. Oil from hands damage them over time. I recently viewed a newly transcribed one and it had been read but never touched. Gloves were always used. The transcriber kept a separate sheet of paper under the hand so as to not touch the paper. Those books look very old. Perhaps someone will transcribe them.
Pray for me Fathers I really need it.
❤Κοκκινο κε Χρϊςτος❤
Wow
17:50 what is the wonderful instrument?
Could be a Dulcimer
good and informative.
Isnt this the same monastary that St. Paisios lived in for a while before he returned back to Mount Athos?
Yes!!!
Imagine making a solemn vow to a group of monks to return a Bible that you are borrowing from them only to turn around and sell it to the Russian czar. That's some bad stuff to play with
how i wish i was in sinai with you and peaceful quiet to study /here in london on wed 19 january mid winter when you cant go out to escape noise all morning since shortly after 8 am someone used loud washing machine/every other day as house is full of tenants/ then drilling continues day after day/ neighbours garden machines as well as brand new building of flats being erected very nearby all winter/ laws should be passed prohibiting building during winter when people are trapped inside due to cold
All the books seems like should be photocopied and distributed to monasteries and churches around the world to protect them. Even be available for printing for the populous.
Could I study the books if I go?
It is very good. I am really moved with this Christic life style..
I would like to know the rules which abides the monks together. Their daily life.. Their admission... The allocation of offices and different responsibilities and its circulation... The constitution of this monastery to know it little more deeper
Hope some one can help me in this...
Hi, if you're interested to learn more about Orthodoxy, and how monks live you can look up an Orthodox church that's in your area and contact the priest serving there and he could answer any questions you may have. Also, you could ask the priest where the nearest monastery near you is and ask if it would be possible for you to stay at one. Hope this helps!
Lord,Jesus Christ, Son of God, have Mercy on me a simmer
Amen
This is the true picture of Christ. Of course not to the "T" but nonetheless, it is Him. It is the real Jesus. This is the truth. Let your spirit witness to you
Quote: "The monastery has repeatedly accused Tischendorf of theft. But now the old files from the tsar's archives emerged during the work as part of the research project - including the deed of donation from the monastery to the tsar with the monastery stamp and the monks' signatures." - What is true?
OOps mistranslation ... VENERATE the Holy Relics, not worship.
Orthodox do not worship anything or anyone except God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; One God.
Pray for us and for my family
AMEN
How could a person steal from a Monastery, and live with themselves.
2:03 what are those structures on the exterior wall?? Oriels, outhouses, guard post??
I am very interested to get there
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OPINION:
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENNA,
PRAY FOR US.
( A PRAYER OF VENERATION TO A SAINT).
Jesus Castanares We Orthodox do not venerate Catherine of Sienna. This is about St. Catherine of Alexandria whose monastery is in Sinai.