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![New Podcast Interview with Andrew Gould on the New Church](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/new-podcast-interview-with-andrew-gould-on-the-new-church-235333.jpg?v=1660675484)
Ariane Montemuro, host of the St. Matrona Podcast, recently released a new interview with Andrew Gould, the architect of the monastery's new church. Andrew discusses the beautiful shrines he constructed for the monastery chapel a few years ago, as well as the philosophy behind his design for the new church.
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![COVID Restrictions Lifted at Holy Cross](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/covid-restrictions-lifted-at-holy-cross-742533.jpg?v=1660675486)
In consultation with our monastery physician, Archimandrite Seraphim has decreed effectively immediately that all masking and social distancing requirements have been lifted at Holy Cross Monastery for our pilgrims and visitors (regardless of vaccination status). We now only ask that anyone who is having symptoms or who has been exposed to someone with symptoms in the past two weeks refrain from visiting.
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![Church Wall Construction Now Underway](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/church-wall-construction-now-underway-668458.jpg?v=1660675491)
Glory be to God, thanks to His mercy and the prayers of the saints over the past week we have started to see substantial progress on the construction of the church walls. Please pray that this continues speedily and without hindrance if such be the will of God!
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![Brotherhood Serves Special Moleben with Procession to Overcome Obstacles in Church Construction](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/brotherhood-serves-special-moleben-with-procession-to-overcome-obstacles-in-church-construction-354123.jpg?v=1660675494)
Ever since we resumed work on the new church in March, progress has been extremely slow with various difficulties and complications arising on a regular basis. Therefore under the direction of our abbot, Archimandrite Seraphim, we resolved to serve this morning a special Moleben with a Cross Procession, beseeching the help of God, the Theotokos, St. Panteleimon and all the saints for this most important and God-pleasing endeavor.
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![Paschal Epistle of His Holiness, Patriarch Kyrill, to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monastics & All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church (2021)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/paschal-epistle-of-his-holiness-patriarch-kyrill-to-the-archpastors-pastors-deacons-monastics-all-the-faithful-children-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-2021-167444.jpg?v=1660675496)
CHRIST IS RISEN! In these words, we confess the unshakeable faith in Him, at Whose Cross we stood on Holy Friday and for Whom we mourned along with His disciples and the myrrh-bearing women when praying before the Shroud.