The communities of New Skete are members of the Orthodox Church in America, which belongs to the world-wide communion of Orthodox Churches.

Presanctified Liturgy every Wed. and Fri. of Lent at 5 PM
Soup and Bread Wed. following 5 PM service
 proceeds for the Food Pantry in Cambridge NY

Sacred Harp is a uniquely American tradition that brings communities together to sing four-part hymns and anthems. It is a proudly inclusive and democratic part of our shared cultural heritage, deeply steeped in the Judeo-Christian religious idiom.

We are welcoming for this event guests from Poland who have been learning the American Shape Note music and are visiting the U.S. to expand their experience. New Skete is their first stop.

Technically, the style of singing is "shape note singing" because the musical notation uses note heads in 4 distinct shapes to aid in sight-reading, but it is often called "Sacred Harp" singing because the books that most singers use today bears that name. The term "sacred harp" refers to the human voice — that is, the musical instrument you were given at birth. Examples of signs or shapes used to mark the singing of liturgical texts in Byzantium or Early Russia, where the chant came to be called "Znamenij Chant", or Sign Chant.

 

On October 25th 2009, the communities celebrated the feast of Our Lady of the Sign, patronal feast for the Nuns of New Skete, marking the fortieth anniversary of our founding. At the luncheon hosted by the Chapel Community, the celebration highlighted a historical overview in a power point presentation. The presentation can be viewed by clicking the link below.  It will take a few minutes to load.

web/HISTORY OF THE NUNS OF NEW SKETE.pdf

To view our summer newsletter

Click here for high resolution:  http://newskete.org/pubs/NSsum09hires.pdf

Click here for low resolution:  http://newskete.org/pubs/NSsum09lowres.pdf

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Come and See!
Dec 28th to Jan. 3rd  Spend a monastic week at New Skete.
Contact the monks, nuns or companions to reserve accommodations.

For prior issues of our newsletter please click here to view a copy. You will need the Adobe Reader to view the newsletter. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, please click here to download a copy.

Our Blog

New Skete is committed to improving our access to our friends through digital communications. In 2009 we hope to have a new website available that will provide greater integration of our three communities. We are pleased to make our blog available. We will be using our blog to post our latest news and events.

(For those of you who are familiar with RSS you can now add our RSS feed to your aggregator.)

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BOOK BASED ON

New Skete Monks’ television series, Divine Canine

Coming to your local bookstores.

Eight episodes of Divine Canine: With the Monks of New Skete on Animal Planet channel. One of the ways these Eastern Orthodox monks strive to achieve devotion, obedience, and fulfillment is by raising and training dogs. Using their German shepherd pups as examples, the monks demonstrate their unique approach to socializing puppies to show how most of the bad habits possessed by adult dogs can be quelled at an early age. Using a variety of simple daily training rituals, the monks show how a calm and stable environment can be achieved. Then follow Brother Christopher as he trains unruly dogs at their picturesque monastery in the rolling hills of Cambridge. Witness how New Skete’s holistic training approach can turn even the most resilient of misbehaving dogs into loving and obedient companions, to the delight of their previously frustrated families.

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                           The Nuns of New Skete: Our Lady of the Sign Monastery
                                        343 Ash Grove Road
                                       Cambridge, NY 12816                                             
 

Nama, our  flying German Shepherd!  

                                     
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