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Monday, 3 October 2006 / 16 October 2006
We are upgrading the Monachos.net servers today. Please expect some dynamic services (discussion forum, search engine, links directory, etc.) to suffer some outages of service during the day, as they are re-configured to the new server. We hope the day's changes will result in a faster user experience of the website in future. Thank you for your patience!
Sunday, 13 March 2006 / 26 March 2006
Began compilation of the new About Our Icons section, offering explanatory descriptions of the icons used on Monachos.net, as well as presenting our smaller icons in larger sizes, and demonstrating variations on the standard icons of major feasts and commemorations.
Added an explanatory page for the icons of the feasts of the cross with three variations of the standard icon and information on their contents.
Sunday, 6 March 2006 / 19 March 2006
Renewed this year's 2006 Special Lenten Appeal comissioning donations for the support of Monachos.net. Read a letter from the webmaster with fuller information on this year's appeal.
Saturday, 5 February 2006 / 18 February 2006
We have begun advertising a vacancy for the position of volunteer Manager of the Monachos.net Links Catalogue on this web site. If you would like to have an active role in bringing together resources on Orthodoxy through patristic, monastic and liturgical study, for distribution to a world-wide audience, please see our further particulars on application.
Sunday, 16 January 2006 / 29 January 2006
Updated the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete as divided into four portions and read during the first week of Lent. The text has been updated and additional rubrics added, and each of the four days' portions entirely re-formatted for easier reading and printing. Missing portions in the earlier (2002) Monachos edition have been filled in as appropriate.
Monday, 10 January 2006 / 23 January 2006
Added three texts by Jacob of Serug: his Canticle on Edessa is a hymn on the Church in that city, posed in canticle-like refrain; his Homily on the martyrs Guria and Shamouna is an account of two elder martyrs, fashioned as a poetic ode to their suffering and witness; and his Homily on the Martyr Habib who was consumed by fire, and his testimony to the Churches in the East.
Sunday, 9 January 2006 / 22 January 2006
Added Proclus of Cyzicus' Homily Against Nestorius delivered (in the 5th century) in the Great Church of Haghia Sophia in Constantinople, in the presence of Nestorious, wherein he confronts some of the latter's ideas and offers his confession of the single person in two natures who is Christ.
Also three new texts by Sophronios, Patriarch of Jerusalem: a Prayer to the Mother of God in which he describes Mary as New Eve; and two poems (Anacreontica 19 and 20) on Jerusalem and the Holy Land in which the sixth-century bishop describes the major shrines and sights of the area under his jurisdiction—an important, poetic testimony to the life and worship of Christianity in a hight point of the Holy Land's witness.
Saturday, 8 January 2006 / 21 January 2006
Added Egeria the Pilgrim's Description of the Liturgical Year in Jerusalem to the texts library. Written in the fifth-century by a pilgrim named Egeria of whom little is known, the present text is of near-unparalleled importance as a witness to liturgical practices in the Holy Land in the fifth century AD.
Monday, 3 January 2006 / 16 January 2006
Added The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity - an early martyrology. Written in part by Perpetua of Carthage's own hand prior to her martyrdom in AD 203, it is also one of the earliest Christian documents to have been written by a woman.
Friday, 31 December 2005 / 13 January 2006
Added On the Holy Trinity by Bishop Hilary of Poitiers, One of the most important texts from the mid-fourth century on the articulation of Trinity in the context of Arian concerns.
Thursday, 30 December 2005 / 12 January 2006
Added the Rule of St Benedict of Nursia to the Patristic Source Text Library. The Rule is a classic text of the monastic heritage, both East and West, addressing the ordering of life of monks and nuns and the manner of monastic living.