Join us for a wonderful Spiritual Retreat the last weekend of June. We will have sessions on Friday June 27th and Saturday June 28th. Abbot Sergius will be bringing the miraculous, Icon of St. Anna with him for veneration. Retreat and meals are offered free of charge. $10 Suggested donations accepted to help defray cost of food and travel.

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The History of Saint Anna Icon

On May 9, 2004 – Mother’s Day in the U.S. – an Icon of St. Anna, the Mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, located in the Russian Orthodox Church of Our Lady of Joy of All Who Sorrow in Philadelphia began to stream myrrh. On that Sunday one of the parishioners mentioned to the parish rector, Archimandrite Athanasy that the Icon of St. Anna seemed to be “perspiring”. Upon further investigation, Fr. Athanasy notice visible liquid streams and droplets. Accumulations of the liquid were seen on the cuff on St. Anna’s left hand and on her left shoulder veil. Droplets were also found elsewhere on the Icon. This fragrant, slightly oily liquid is commonly referred to as “myrrh”. Initially the myrrh looked like tear drops, as if St. Anna was crying. More recently small, slow-moving streams of myrrh have appeared in other parts of the Icon.

The Icon of St. Anna had been commissioned by Fr. Athanasy in 1998, in the Mount of Olives Convent in Jerusalem. He himself had served there in 1980-1981. In 1998, the Icon was completed, blessed at the Sepulcher of our Lord in the Jerusalem Church of the Resurrection, and brought to Philadelphia.  As of Fall 2012, the Icon resides at St. Tikhon's Monastery and has a wonderful heavenly fragrace but is not currently weeping. Assistance and healings are still wrought by the miraculous Icon of St. Anna and She continues to work wonders for those who approach with faith.

 More on about Abbot Sergius…

Archimandrite Sergius, originally from California is a convert to Holy Orthodoxy and a graduate of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. Fr. Sergius started his monastic journey at St Johns Monastery in Point Reyes Station in 1998 and was sent as a novice to St Tikhon’s Monastery in 2000. He was tonsured small schema in 2003 at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania - the first Orthodox Christian Monastery in North America. He graduated with a Master of Divinity from St Tikhons Seminary with a focus on liturgical music in 2005. 

Fr Sergius was the choir director of the seminary and monastery from 2001-2009 and dedicates much of his service to the training of the future priests of the Holy Orthodox Church in North America by serving as the lecturer in liturgical music and orthodox spirituality. After 10 years of prayerful service as a monastic, Fr. Sergius was ordained to the Holy Diaconate by Metropolitan Tikhon December 6th, 2008 and to the Holy Priesthood by Metropolitan Jonah in December 12th, 2008. He was appointed superior of the monastery then Archbishop Tikhon in November 2008. Later in the following year October 2009 he was elected as the abbot. 

Archimandrite Sergius was installed as the 16th Abbot of Saint Tikhon’s Monastery  on Saturday, January 23, 2010.  Elected and installed, Fr Sergius abbacy marked the first election of a member of the monastery brotherhood to the position of Abbot in 47 years.

On Sunday morning, May 25, 2015 during the annual Pilgrimage weekend,  His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon  elevated Fr. Sergius to the dignity of Archimandrite. Fr Sergius and the monastery brotherhood continue to maintain a good relationship with the monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex, England where St Sophrony and Fr Zecharias continue to be the guiding light for the life and heart of St. Tikhons Monastery Brotherhood.