GIVING
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My name is Sister IOSIFIA, I am a Romanian Orthodox nun living in Ireland, and this is an urgent appeal to your generosity requesting your support for the purchase of a future monastery, which will be established here in Ireland with the blessing of His Eminence Joseph, Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of Southern and Western Europe.
will be dedicated to the Mother of God, its main feast being “The Life-Giving Spring” (celebrated on the Friday after Easter), the Monastery will also be dedicated to St. Ciaran of Clonmacnoise ( Feast day 9th of September) and to all Celtic Saints of Ireland (celebrated on the second Sunday after Pentecost).
The Catholic Sisters have done all they can to ensure that their property, after sale, will become the Orthodox Monastery we intend, and I can not adequately express my heartfelt thanks for their understanding.
is located in the very heart of Ireland, in Shannonbridge, just a few kilometers away from the 6th century monastic site of St. Ciaran in Clonmacnoise. Ireland was famously abundant in monasteries, and the Irish landscape is sanctified by the ascetic labours and constant prayer of countless monastics for hundreds of years in the first millennium. The place we wish to purchase has already been a place of prayer, being a retreat centre belonging to a Catholic religious community, consisting of a complex of 7 Scandinavian style wood houses on 3 acres of land.
For all who want and can help us financially, we have set the goal of raising 250,000 euro as soon as we can, since we already have 40,000 euro raised previously for the purpose of establishing such an Orthodox Monastery.
Maybe it is just my imagination but I thought: if in all the world there are 250 people that can afford giving 1,000 euro each, OR 500 people giving 500 euro each, OR 1,000 people giving 250 euro each, OR 2,500 people giving 100 each…we will gather the whole sum in no time!
We will be fundraising on GOFUNDME
– either until we have achieved our target of 250,000 euro,
– or until the end of 2020 when we are supposed to make the last payment.
BUT we do HOPE against hope and beyond hope that, by the help of God, the Mother of God, all the Saints and by your precious help we might be able to purchase the property in October this very year for the above-mentioned reasons.
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