Monastery Letters
The Buchhagen Monastery Letters appeared between 2003 and 2024. The monastery now publishes an Orthodox Church Calendar.
Monastery Letter 2023
pp. 3 - 16
Beauty as Revelation of God
pp. 17 - 34
The Struggle for the Human Being
pp. 35 - 47
Annual Review
Monastery Letter 2022
pp. 3 - 17
What Actually Is Sin and How Do We Renounce It?
pp. 18 - 31
Call to Repentance - Instruction of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
pp. 32 - 44
Annual Review
pp. 45 - 60
Building Diary
Monastery Letter 2021
pp. 3 - 10
Through Faith and Faithfulness We Move Forward - Instruction of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
pp. 11 - 23
Annual Review
Monastery Letter 2020
pp. 4 - 11
On the Spiritual Vision of Things (Creation)
pp. 12 - 13
Spiritual Words
pp. 14 - 17
Terms of Orthodox Life Culture: Consecrated Seat
pp. 17 - 27
Annual Review
pp. 28 - 31
30 Years of Monastery Building
Monastery Letter 2019
pp. 4 - 11
Saint Menas, Martyr and Wonderworker
pp. 12 - 13
Prayer to Saint Menas
pp. 14 - 20
Annual Review 2019
Monastery Letter 2018
pp. 3 - 9
Salvation and Sacrifice - Religious Core Concepts of the German Language
pp. 10 - 22
Annual Review 2018
pp. 23 - 25
Address by Elder Nikanor of Gigintsi
Monastery Letter 2017
pp. 2 - 8
Mary and Consecration to God
pp. 9 - 21
Annual Report 2017
pp. 22 - 50
Pilgrimage to Sanctuaries of Southeastern Europe
Monastery Letter 2016
pp. 2 - 5
Word of the Elder
pp. 6 - 21
Annual Review
pp. 22 - 26
History and Stories of the Early Saxon Church
pp. 27 - 34
Inna, Rimma, Pinna - Apostles of the Germanic Peoples
Monastery Letter 2015
pp. 2 - 6
25 Years of Holy Trinity Monastery Buchhagen
pp. 6 - 19
Annual Review
pp. 20 - 51
From the History of the Monastery
Monastery Letter 2013
pp. 5 - 29
The Winter That Was a Spring. The Romanian Monasteries
pp. 30 - 56
Spiritual Spring in Bulgaria. Election and Enthronement of the Patriarch; Bulgarian Monasteries
pp. 57 - 66
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 66 - 71
Staff and Rose. Impressions from the Enthronement of Our New Metropolitan Antonios
Monastery Letter 2012
pp. 3 - 9
Elder Johannes: What Is True Knowledge?
pp. 10 - 15
Excerpts from the Book: The Way to Naturally Tuned Sacred Chant
pp. 16 - 26
Monastery Chronicle
Monastery Letter 2010
pp. 1 - 8
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 8 - 19
Travel Report on the Pilgrimage to Georgia
Monastery Letter 2009
pp. 4 - 6
Sacred Chant and Formation of the Soul
pp. 7 - 10
Choral Chant as a Spiritual Path of Practice
pp. 11 - 19
Monastery Chronicle
Monastery Letter 2008
pp. 2 - 7
On the Spiritual Calling - On the Unquenchable Longing of the Human Being for God, the Call of God, Being Torn Out of the Usual, and Finally the Monk's Total Surrender to Him
pp. 7 - 12
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 12 - 15
Excerpt from the Afterword of the Buchhagen Psalter
Monastery Letter 2007
Brief Annual Overview with a Detailed Report on the Pilgrimage to Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and the Holy Mountain Athos
Monastery Letter 2006
pp. 2 - 9
On the Saints and the Way of Sanctification
pp. 9 - 11
The Gate of Heaven - On the Meaning of the Gate in Sacred Architecture
pp. 11 - 18
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 19 - 22
Entry of the Saints into Buchhagen - Transfer of Relics from the Old Imperial Abbey of Corvey to Holy Trinity Monastery
p. 23
Book Recommendations
Monastery Letter 2005
pp. 2 - 9
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 9 - 20
Spiritual Life and the Question of Power - On the Temptation of Power and Its Overcoming on the Way of Sanctification
pp. 21 - 30
The Germanic Peoples and the Covenant with God
pp. 31 - 32
Book Recommendations
Monastery Letter 2004
pp. 4 - 6
Monastery Chronicle
pp. 7 - 17
Travel Report - Pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain Athos
pp. 18 - 19
Book Recommendations
Monastery Letter 2003
pp. 1 - 24
On Faith, Grace and Spiritual Healing
pp. 2 - 3
Faith Alone Saves vs. Pious Works Alone Save - Two False Alternatives of Western Theology
pp. 4 - 5
The Principle of Repression and Blame and Its Overcoming
p. 6
The Grace of God in the Understanding of Western Theology
p. 7
On the Understanding of Grace in Orthodoxy (Divine Energies, Uncreated Light)
p. 8
What Is Sin?
p. 9
What Is a Saint?
p. 10
On the Actual Efficacy of Holy Rituals and Symbols
p. 11
Being in God vs. Moralistic Legal Perfectionism
p. 12
Faith in the Orthodox Sense - Overcoming Separation from God on the Archetypal Level
p. 13
Being in God - In View of the Pure Bliss of His Presence, Every Justification Becomes Superfluous
p. 14
On the Multiple Sense of Scripture
p. 15
Only Holy Tradition Opens Understanding for Holy Scripture
p. 16
The Way of Divine Love, Beyond All That Can Be Written (It Is No Longer I Who Live, but Christ in Me.)
p. 17
The First Stage of Faith: Pure Childlike Petition
p. 18
The Second Stage: Intimate Touch in Faith
p. 19
The Third Stage: The Raising of the Dead Soul
p. 20
On Dead and Living Souls
p. 22
Spiritual Interpretation: Manliness; Womanliness; the Flow of Blood
p. 23
A People Without Elders?