{"id":209959,"date":"2018-10-08T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=209959"},"modified":"2018-10-08T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:47:19","slug":"transfiguration-monastery-celebrates-50th-consecration-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/transfiguration-monastery-celebrates-50th-consecration-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfiguration Monastery celebrates 50th Consecration Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A celebration marking the 50th Anniversary of the Consecration of the\u00a0Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, PA, was held on Friday, September 28, 2018.\u00a0 The event brought to a close the year-long celebration of the monastery\u2019s anniversary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate and His Eminence, Archbishop Michael of New York and New Jersey, concelebrated the anniversary Divine Liturgy in the monastery chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Many area clergy and faithful attended the Divine Liturgy, during which prayers were offered for the repose of the late founding Abbess, Mother Alexandra, the former Princess of Romania, and the faithful departed who helped her fulfill her dream to establish an English-language women\u2019s community.<\/p>\n<p>A Service of Thanksgiving also was celebrated, after which a festive luncheon was served.<\/p>\n<p>After the celebration of Vespers on Friday evening, a live performance of\u00a0\u201cIleana, Princess of Romania\u201d\u00a0was presented.\u00a0 Based on Mother Alexandra\u2019s book,\u00a0<em>I Live Again<\/em>, the one-woman play was presented by the acclaimed Romanian actress and playwright Liana Ceterchi.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the month of September, the play\u2014produced by the Women\u2019s Theatre Association, Bucharest, Romania, with support in the US and Canada of the Romanian Cultural Association and the monastery\u2014was well received by audiences in Cleveland, OH; Philadelphia; Belmont, MA; Montreal; Toronto; Southfield, MI; Chicago; and Colleyville, TX.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-209959 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='800x532' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity4__large.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity4__large-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='800x532' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity2__large.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity2__large-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Photo credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Victor Lutes\/OCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration marking the 50th Anniversary of the Consecration of the\u00a0Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, PA, was held on Friday, September 28, 2018.\u00a0 The event brought to a close the year-long celebration of the monastery\u2019s anniversary.\u00a0\u00a0 His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate and His Eminence, Archbishop Michael of New York&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":209643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches"],"better_featured_image":{"id":209643,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":800,"height":532,"file":"2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity1__large.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"2018-0928-ellwoodcity1__large-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity1__large-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":209959,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-0928-ellwoodcity1__large.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209959\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=209959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209959\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209643\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=209959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=209959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=209959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}