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Holy Transfiguration Skete

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About the Keeweenaw
A local priest once asked us if we had come to the Keweenaw for penitential reasons. There was a certain validity to Father's question. Penitence for one's own sins and for those of the whole world has always been an important factor in the monastic calling. Certainly, our own age - rife as it is with sins of the flesh, with economic and social injustice, with the snuffing-out of innocent life - has no less need of penitence than times past. The monk, by his life of hardship and self-denial, seeks in some small way to make reparation for this mountain of sin. He hopes to save his own soul from damnation and perhaps, through his prayer and witness, to turn the world from its headlong rush to destruction.
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