Course program

Friday 5.6.

Arrival at the monastery

14.00 Lunch at Restaurant Trapesa

16.00 Course start

16.15 How did the Christian idea of a sacred place originate?

18.00 Ninth Hour, Vespers. Small Compline and Akathist to Venerable John of Valamo .

19.30 Evening meal.

20.00-21.30 What was an Orthodox pilgrimage like?

Saturday 6.6.

06.00 Midnight Service and Matins. Liturgy. Old Church.

07.30 Breakfast

09.00 The mysticism of Jerusalem. Bethlehem as a holy city. Sinai – the Mountain of God

12.00 Prayer service for all Valamo saints. Old Church.

12.30 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Sacred space as a disappearing natural resource: Armenia

16.00-17.30 The afterlife of sacred space: Smyrna. Discussion.

18.00 Vigil.

19.30 Evening meal

Sunday 7.6.

(07.30 Breakfast)

09.00 Third Hour and Liturgy.

11.30 Lunch

12.00 Prayer service to Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valamo. Winter Church.

12.30-13.30 Tarkovsky and the art of pilgrimage. Discussion.

Check-out by 12.00.