Twenty-fifth Anniversary! - Holy Transfiguration Skete

Volume XXIV
Number 2
News from
HOLY TRANSFIGURATION SKETE
Courtesy of Poorrock Abbey Publishing
Autumn
2008
Society of Saint John
6559 State Highway M26
Eagle Harbor, Michigan 49950
http://www.societystjohn.com
Twenty-fifth Anniversary!
Yet, some occasions do seem to call for more
We arrived to stay at Jacob’s Falls on August
obvious and exuberant rejoicing. This year, on
29, 1983. We had come to build a monastery for
August 24th, the Sunday preceding the day,
God’s glory and for the upbuilding of His kingitself, we celebrated a special Divine Liturgy of
dom through the arts. The call had come upon
thanksgiving for our first twenty-five years of
us gradually and our resolve had been firm for
monastic life in this place. We had done likewise
some time, but, despite the many developments
for our tenth anniversary in 1993, and in 2003 we
and turning points we have encountered along
had selected the
the way, we
same day for the
have always reRededicate yourselves, O Brethren:
consecration of
garded the day
put off the old man and live a new life;
our new church.
of our arrival on
controlling the passions which lead to death,
this severe and
Thus the texts
windy shore as let us chasten our members and hate the fruits of evil, for Vespers on the
recalling our former errors only to flee from them,
the foundation
evening before
of this monasthat we may all be made new
the celebration,
tery.
and worthily honor this day of dedication.
as on every anWe mark
the anniversary
of that joy each
year with no special festivity. Indeed, since it
is the liturgical commemoration of the Beheading of John the Baptist, we observe a strict fast,
as the Church prescribes. Keeping solemn
remembrance of past mercies, we make sober
assessment of the distance we have come, and
we trust the Lord’s mercy to provide for what
may lie ahead.
From Vespers
for the Dedication of a Church
niversary of the
church’s dedication, were drawn
from the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of
the Resurrection in Jerusalem. While calling to
mind that event of more than a millennium and
a half past, they exhort us to a personal renewal
and conversion of life. So this time of double joy
occasions not only a remembrance of the past, but
also a fundamental opening to the future and a
rededication to the purposes of monastic life.
We are a Catholic Monastery of the Byzantine Rite, under the jurisdiction of the Eparch of Chicago, and belonging to
the Ukrainian Metropoly in the United States of America, which is in union with the Pope of Rome, supreme pastor of
the universal Church. We embrace Evangelical poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability of life, according to the Rule
of Saint Benedict and the traditions of the Christian East. In our skete at Jacob’s Falls, on the shore of Lake Superior in
Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, we devote ourselves to a common life of prayer and work for the praise, love, and
service of God and for the upbuilding of His Kingdom through the arts.
The Celebration
Our Bishop, His Grace, Richard Stephen
Seminack, Ukrainian Catholic Eparch of St.
Nicholas in Chicago, was the principal celebrant
of the special Divine Liturgy of thanksgiving for
our first twenty-five years of monastic life on
this windy shore. Bishop Richard had visited us
five years previously for the consecration of our
church, and we had spoken with him briefly
at various Eparchal events in Chicago over the
years, but this event provided our first opportunity for in depth discussion with him. We
were most grateful for his presence and for his
kindness in sharing his wisdom with us in his
homily.
His Grace, Bishop Michael Wiwchar, retired Eparch of Saskatoon and former Eparch
of St. Nicholas joined Bishop Seminack at the
Altar as concelebrant. Bishop Michael had received us into the Ukrainian Catholic Church
more than a dozen years before and directed
us to Mt. Tabor Monastery in California for
formation. We had seen him only at a few large
ecclesiastical gatherings since his transfer from
Chicago to Saskatoon some eight years before.
We were delighted he was able to make the long
journey to be with us on this joyful occasion.
We were pleased, as well, at the presence
of the third concelebrating hierarch, His Excel-
nah, and Elijah Schoonard, who
had come with their family from
Lower Michigan to be with us
for the celebration and who,
after some quick study, ably
served at the Liturgy. Monk Sergius and Novicemonk Ephrem
of our monastery chanted the
antiphons and troparia and led
the enthusiastic responses of the
congregation. The ninety or so
worshipers prolonged the celebration through the brunch that
followed.
lency, the Most Reverend Alexander Sample,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Marquette. Bishop
Sample is the closest of the hierarchs to us in
physical proximity, and all of the Catholics in
our immediate area, except for those in our
monastery, are under his pastoral care. We
have come to know many of the priests of his
Diocese through common concerns – the nearest churches of our own Eparchy are in Minneapolis and Milwaukee – and we have occasionally been invited to take part in special Diocesan
events in Marquette. We see Bishop Sample’s
participation in our own humble
celebration as a powerful expression of the Church’s catholicity
and a manifestation of her essential unity across a multitude of
Rites. God grant there be many
more opportunities for such expression in years to come.
The priests of our monastery, Fathers Nicholas and Basil,
concelebrated the Liturgy with
the bishops, and our own Father Ambrose served in his accustomed capacity as Deacon.
Joining the hierarchs and clergy
in the sanctuary were Noah, Jo-
The Service took place at the
usual time of our regular Sunday Divine Liturgy, and it had
also been recently mentioned on a local television newscast, but, specially invited friends and
major benefactors of the monastery comprised,
by far, the bulk of the congregation. In his homily Bishop Richard emphasized the vital role
they continue to play in the monastery’s survival and growth, and he expressed their crucial
importance once again with a special intonation
at the Polychronion. In many ways the celebration was theirs.
Certainly there was much to celebrate.
From the Beginning
had been set up as a summer cottage near the Lake Superior shore.
Despite its lack of insulation it
was tight, the candles did not
flicker even in the strongest blow,
and with fires in both parlor and
kitchen stoves, it could be made
reasonably warm. The highway
afforded easy winter access to all
the buildings, and, although the
pipes were too shallowly buried
to prevent freezing, the spring that
fed the rustic system never failed.
So, through that first winter, we
hauled water, we stoked fires and,
with the help of neighbors, we survived.
When we came to Jacob’s Falls at summer’s
end in 1983, we already had a firm idea of what
we had been called to do. Over the previous
several years, the seed planted by the Holy Spirit as a random thought had grown to an idea
and then a vision. With the encouragement of
several spiritual fathers – and to the horror of
many of our friends – we had taken the necessary first step toward its fulfillment. We had
left the world behind, and now we were building a monastery.
Our monastic patrimony on that bright, late
summer morning consisted of a narrow three
acre parcel of beach sand and bedrock with five
small buildings stretched out along eight hundred feet of two lane highway. The buildings
were without insulation or permanent foundations and could be supplied with running water
for only half the year. We had purchased the old
“summer resort” on a three year land contract
with a small down payment borrowed from a
church. It seemed a precarious beginning for
such a great undertaking, but it was what we
found possible, and we soon began to see God’s
guiding hand in bringing us to this place.
We took up residence the largest of the five
buildings, a former one room schoolhouse, that
Spring brought a higher profile in the local area, an article in a big city newspaper, and more help. St. Vincent de Paul and
the ladies of a local church saw that we never
lacked for food. By fall the men of another local church had re-roofed and insulated our residence; with a more efficient parlor stove and an
abundant wood supply – though still having to
haul our water – we faced our second winter
with confidence.
Financial problems continued, however.
Our first efforts at self-support brought meager
results, and resources from our former lives in
the world had been exhausted. Several times
we came close to default on our land contract,
and each time a last minute unsolicited gift
saved the day. We were barely staying ahead
of disaster, and the land contract balloon payment loomed ever closer.
In Lent of 1985 we sent our first issue of
Magnificat to a few hundred friends and family
members. Courtesy of a retreat center, the next
several issues reached about twenty-five hundred homes across the Upper Peninsula. With
only two weeks left to go before the October 1,
1986, deadline, we found ourselves $15,000.00
short of the land contract balloon payment. We
addressed an emergency appeal to the friends
who had been receiving Magnificat for the previous year; we
had the payment and to spare by
the appointed time.
We saw this as miraculous,
a second founding of the monastery. The debt relieved, we
began to build. We purchased
materials with the overage and
set posts as a foundation for an
addition to our residence.
A
local mill donated some rough
lumber, and, with the help of
friends, the two story structure
was closed in before winter of
1986. We worked on it as funds
and the time of friends allowed;
by spring of 1989 we had installed our dormitory on the upper floor and
developed a common room on the lower. A
shuffling of other functions allowed us to devote half of the old schoolhouse to a chapel.
As a priest friend celebrated the first Eucharist
on the new altar of our chapel, we felt another
milestone had been passed.
Other building quickly followed. A deck on
the lake side of our new dormitory building became an enclosed porch and then a year-round
community room and refectory. We added a
bedroom and bath to one of our guest cabins,
dramatically increased our work space, and began make plans for a new church and monastery to replace our existing complex.
There were sign of progress everywhere,
but, as we approached our tenth anniversary, two long endured problems darkened our
hearts: the community had not grown, and a
deepening estrangement from the local Church
made the likelihood of official
recognition of our monastic life
increasingly remote. There was
little we could do about either situation but persevere and pray for
brighter times. We put on a good
face and planned a celebration.
During his homily at the Liturgy of Thanksgiving for our first
ten years at Jacob’s Falls, the priest
predicted the approach of a major
turning point in the history of this
struggling monastery. He proved
prophetic. Within a week two
men had joined the monastery as
candidates, and a few days later a
brightness appeared in the East.
To the East
tion for you, if you
would like.”
We journeyed
to Chicago in early
January to speak
with Bishop Michael. He quickly
welcomed the idea
of our community
coming under his
protection;
noting, however, that
things had to be
done properly and
with due deliberation, he referred us
to Archimandrite
Boniface at Mt. Tabor Monastery in
California. Having
brought his own
Church of St. Nicholas at Mt. Tabor Monastery.
community into the
Fr. James Scharinger was a bi-ritual priest
Ukrainian Catholic Church some years before,
of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg serving for a
he would know how to proceed. We should
time in the Upper Peninsula for the Diocese of
also closely observe the life of the monastery,
Marquette. He had been coming to our monBishop Michael advised. “Who knows, you
astery for brief monthly retreats for about two
may not like it…”
years. On one occasion as we
discussed our growing despair of
ever receiving the Church’s recognition of our monastic life, he had
said: “You know, you would get
a more sympathetic hearing from
an Eastern bishop.”
It was, of course, a moot point;
we knew no Eastern bishops, nor
did we have any ethnic connection
with an Eastern Catholic Church.
Fr. Jim called shortly after Labor
Day in 1993 and announced: “My
good friend, Fr. Michael Wiwchar
has just been appointed Ukrainian
Catholic Bishop of Chicago. You
are within his jurisdictional territory. Once he’s consecrated and
installed, I can make an introduc-
Founders receive monastic consecration.
With a certain amount of
trepidation we visited Mt. Tabor
about six weeks later, during Lent.
We arrived in the midst of Great
Compline, and, by the end of the
Service, we were convinced of the
rightness of the path on which we
had been so suddenly directed.
We negotiated an arrangement
with the Archimandrite, whereby we would return to Mt. Tabor each winter for an extended
period of formation until we had
thoroughly absorbed the tradition. Although there was much
to learn, Fr. Boniface had assured
us, it would soon no longer seem
foreign, but, rather, we would
recognize it as what we had been
looking for all along without knowing it. He
recounted his own monastery’s travails and its
ultimate entrance into the Ukrainian Catholic
Church: “And it’s been nothing but blessings,
ever since.”
We began our first long stay at Mt. Tabor in
January of 1995. Toward the end of our time, Fr.
Boniface told us each to present him with a list
of three potential monastic names and to search
the store room for habits of appropriate size;
he planned our investiture as novices before
we left. He also drew up a document for the
Bishop detailing our community’s relationship
to Mt. Tabor. We returned to Jacob’s Falls that
spring bearing new names, clad in new habits,
and with official status as Holy Transfiguration
Skete.
The following winter, the
two founders of our monastery,
by virtue of their long struggle,
received monastic consecration at
the hands of Archimandrite Boniface. He instructed them to begin a course of directed readings
in theology with a view toward
ordination; the following winter
he ordained them as subdeacons.
In June of 1997, Bishop Michael
ordained the founders to the diaconate at St. Nicholas Cathedral
in Chicago; he ordained them to
the priesthood at Mt. Tabor on
November 8, 1998.
Priestly ordination of founders.
In so many ways, the blessings continue to flow.
Toward the Future
tion of Bishop Michael, we also
included living space within the
plan to accommodate a community of twelve monks.
Common prayer is the essence of monastic community life, and the place where that
common, liturgical prayer occurs – be it called
church, chapel, or oratory – is the very heart
of the complex of buildings people commonly
call a monastery. As our buildings expanded,
we were able to devote a larger and increasingly elaborated area exclusively to liturgical
prayer, but we had not yet achieved a proper,
well functioning church. Our affiliation with
the Ukrainian Catholic Church
having given us a renewed sense
of direction, we again turned our
gaze to this cherished goal.
The church is the most important and most public building of the monastery; in addition
to being a functional arena for
the Liturgy, it must also reflect
and express the community’s
faith to the world at large. In
both respects the design we had
conceived prior to our turn to
the East no longer worked. We
quickly sketched out a church
of Byzantine/Slav design that
would fit into our available
building space. At the sugges-
We broke ground in the fall
of 1996 on the south side of our
existing structures. Funding necessitated that the work proceed
in phases. First would come the
entire basement, the kitchen, and
the bathing area. This would allow us to make the entire old
schoolhouse a chapel and buy us
time to secure funding for the remainder of the expansion. We occupied the new kitchen and bath
after returning from Mt. Tabor
early in 1998. Two years later a
generous gift allowed us to retire the mortgage
and begin construction drawings for the second
phase of the project.
Meanwhile, with a donation designated as
seed money for the start of a performing arts
center, we acquired a vintage concert grand piano and built a music room and new entrance
foyer to the north of our old building. Construction began on the new church, refectory,
learned that the land company
would be willing to part with
more. By year’s end, the monastic patrimony had increased to
more than six hundred acres.
library, and dormitory wing of the monastery
in the summer of 2002. Bishop Richard Stephen
consecrated the new church in August of 2003,
and we spent the rest of the year settling into
the new spaces.
Through the great generosity of a benefactor we retired the debt incurred by the second
phase of construction in January of last year. We
breathed a sigh of relief and planned some time
for small projects and consolidation. God, however, has a way of upsetting our little plans.
By gift in 1985 and purchase
in 1989, the original three acres of
our monastic patrimony had increased to sixty-five. Most of the
new land, however, was either
too wet, too steep, or too fragile
ecologically for significant development. Eventually, the monastery would have to expand beyond its current circumscribed
location between the highway
and the lakeshore. For some time
we had been considering adjacent land to the south of us on
the ridge. In March of last year
160 acres of the property in question became available, and we
We cannot say what the future may hold, the Lord does not
make us privy to his plans; this
monastery’s development will
proceed as necessity and funding dictate. For now we have
readied a field for planting an
orchard and have developed
some walking trails in areas of
particular beauty. Soon we will
undertake a land use study to
determine which areas will best
support various anticipated
functions in the future.
We are one twelfth of the way into a pilgrimage of three hundred years. The journey so
far, though not without its share of difficulties,
has revealed many wonders and brought great
blessings. We do not know what lies around
the next bend. But we prepare ourselves for the
possibilities and trust in the Lord to make good
our lack.
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At the Jampot
them up into jam. With doors and
windows open for ventilation
purposes during production, but
with no promotion or sign, we
sold about twenty cases of jam to
the curious who stopped by that
first season; the rest of what we
had made we sold wholesale to a
distributor.
Former restaurant building, Autumn 1983.
As we survived our first winter with some
hardship – and much help from friends – we
pondered how we might support ourselves in
this seemingly impossible task to which the
Lord had called us. Given our land and location, subsistence agriculture was not a possibility, nor had we any particular handicraft skills
around which to build a cottage industry. We
had noted, however, a few days
after our arrival, the numerous
cars that had stopped at Jacob’s
Falls during Labor Day weekend
and how many of them had first
turned around in front of our
boarded-up little building nearby.
We began picking berries the
following summer. Making use
of the fruits of the earth, it was a
wholesome activity that brought
us out of doors and into the beauty of nature. After each day’s
picking, we brought our berries
to the little building by the Falls
– having once served as a short
order restaurant, it possessed a
rudimentary kitchen – and cooked
By the third season we were
getting some help with the picking, and one of us was able to
spend some afternoons selling directly to the public. In 1997, having acquired several old household ranges from St. Vincent de
Paul, we added a few baked goods
to our offerings and put up a sign
identifying the shop as Jampot.
The name spoke not only of our principal product, but also of the tightness of our quarters.
Patronage grew. By 1989 we had decided
we could no longer continue with a kitchen
so small that oven doors could not be opened
simultaneously on opposite sides of the room
and the mixing of cookies and muffins and the
Sales room with production, circa 1989.
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come to characterize the fall traffic. The warehouse built in 1996,
while housing vehicles, snow removal equipment, a workshop,
and various items for which there
is no room at the residence, also
allows for augmented storage
of production material and for a
shipping area separate from the
kitchen.
But it is the good will of our
patrons that has made it all possible. The faithful people who
come back year after year and
who tell their friends about us
have fueled the growth of our
monastery and in many ways
have become a congregation for
The first truss of the new kitchen is raised behind the Jampot sales room.
us. We have come to know many
kneading of bread had to be done in the sales
of them well over time, and our over the counroom. On the last official day of business that
ter conversations have become a real ministry.
year, with foul weather and no customers in
They provide us a window on the world. Their
sight, we began demolished the kitchen. We
Jampot patronage advances the work of this
had committed ourselves to expansion.
monastery in spiritual as well as material ways.
For their gift-giving and personal pleasure we
Jampot opened on Memorial Day weekoffer the items listed on the following pages.
end 1990 with new freestanding signs and a
new kitchen. Connecting the
sales room with a formerly detached outbuilding, the new area
completed during the winter increased our work space more
than five fold. It allowed for the
acquisition of more equipment
and offered room for growth
while providing greater efficiency in production work at hand.
Sales for the season doubled.
Growth in sales has continued over the years with only a few
downturns. Two major physical
improvements have helped this
along. The parking lot opened
in 1994 provides space for more
customers and for the tour busses and mobile homes that have
Friends help out on the first day in the new Jampot kitchen.
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A Fine Art Print
Gladsome Light (right), a generously sized (30” x 14.6” image)
work by local artist Colin Gifford is
available in three fashions:
Benefactor’s Framing:
Triple matted, and signed by the
monastery’s founders as well as
the artist, each bears the artist’s
hand remarque and is graced
with an icon of the Mother of God etched into its
ultra-violet resistant glass. This rare and beautiful work of art, a five hundred dollar value, is
available only to those who contribute $1,000.00
or more to the monastery’s building fund.
The Standard Framing is double matted and signed by the artist and founders. It is
available at a cost of $425.00. (Please add $25.00
for shipping and handling. Michigan residents,
please add $25.50 for Sales Tax.)
It may also be purchased as Print Alone for
$125.00. (Please add $5.00 for shipping and handling and $7.50 for sales tax if in Michigan.)
Music at the
Monastery
a Compact Disc
Pianist Nancy Larson performing music of:
Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Ludwig van Beethoven
On the Monastery’s Mason & Hamlin Concert
Grand Piano. Visit our website, www.societystjohn.com/jampot.jp, for complete details. $15.00
(2.00) Shipped via USPS. Michigan residents add
6% sales tax $.90. Free shipping to the same address when purchased with another item.
The Holy Cross of Sorrow
and Suffering
A packet of HOLY CROSS NOTECARDS offers eight different (5” x 7”) photographic views
by Kenneth Steiner of our Holy Cross of Sorrow
and Suffering. Mailing envelopes are included.
$12.00 (2.00) Shipped via USPS. Michigan residents add 6% sales tax $.72. Free shipping to
the same address when purchased with another
item.
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Preserves
Our SEASON SELECTION #1 contains twelve
jars, one each of Wild Thimbleberry, Wild Blueberry, Blackberry-Cherry, Apricot-Raspberry,
Brandied Peach, and Black Cherry Jams; of Wild
Apple-Chokecherry, Wild Crabapple, Pear-Cinnamon, Dandelion, and Wild Sugarplum Jellies;
and of Grape Butter. $65.00 (12.00)
Our SEASON SELECTION #2 also holds twelve
jars, one each of Wild Thimbleberry, StrawberryRhubarb, Boysenberry, Raspberry-Currant, Black
Raspberry, and Spiced Peach Jams; of Plum,
Cherry, Wild Blackberry, Cranberry-Apple, and
Grape Jellies; and of Wild Apple Butter. $65.00
(12.00)
Our SEASON SELECTION #3 also holds twelve
jars, one each of Wild Thimbleberry, Black Currant, Wild Blackberry, Gooseberry, Apricot, and
Strawberry Jams; of Raspberry, Red Currant,
Chokecherry, Wild Apple Pincherry, and Wild
Spiced Apple Jellies; and of Plum Butter. $65.00
(12.00)
Our KEWEENAW WILDS selection contains
jams and jellies produced from berries which are
found wild throughout the Keweenaw. You will
receive twelve jars, one each of Wild Thimbleberry, Wild Strawberry, Wild Raspberry, Wild
Bilberry, Wild Blueberry, and Wild Blackberry
Jams; of Wild Grape, Wild Chokecherry, Wild
Pincherry, Wild Sugarplum, and Wild Apple
Jellies; and Wild Apple Butter. $80.00 (12.00)
Our THIMBLEBERRY JAM may be purchased
by the full case (twelve jars): $168.00 (12.00) OR,
our THIMBLEBERRY TRIO: $42.00 (10.00).
Our WILD STRAWBERRY JAM may also
be purchased by the full case: $144.00 (12.00)
OR, our WILD STRAWBERRY TRIO: $36.00
(10.00).
Our BUTTER TRIO contains one each of Wild
Apple, Pear, and Grape Butters. $12.00 (10.00)
Our CHERRY TRIO combines one each of Black
Cherry Jam, Red Cherry Jam, and Cherry Butter.
$14.00 (10.00)
Our CONSERVE TRIO holds one jar each of
Blueberry-Brandied Peach, Plum-Rum, and
Cranberry-Port Conserves. $24.00 (10.00)
Our CRANBERRY TRIO combines CranberryGrape Marmalade, Cranberry-Ginger Jam, and
Cranberry-Lemon Conserves. $19.00 (10.00)
Our MARMALADE TRIO has one jar each of
tart Lemon, Lime, and Orange Marmalades.
$24.00 (10.00)
Our RASPBERRY TRIO contains one jar each of
delicious Golden, Black and Wild (Red) Raspberry Jams. $20.00 (10.00)
Our SEEDLESS TRIO contains Seedless Black
Raspberry, Seedless Raspberry, and Seedless
Blackberry Jams. $24.00 (10.00)
Our SPECIAL TRIO contains one each of the
highly prized Wild Thimbleberry, Wild Strawberry, and Wild Raspberry Jams. $34.00 (10.00)
Our SUGARLESS TRIO contains one each of our
all-fruit Strawberry, Cherry, and Blueberry Jams.
No artificial sweeteners. $18.00 (10.00)
Our WINE JELLY TRIO contains one each of
our Burgundy, Rosé, and Chablis Wine Jellies.
$15.00 (10.00)
Truffles
Our TRUFFLE ASSORTMENT offers three each
of four of our outstanding chocolate truffles.
Mocha truffles are in dark chocolate cover. Orange-Cardamom and Hazelnut truffles are covered in milk chocolate. The Chocolate-Almond
truffle is rolled in chopped, toasted almonds. A
dozen weighs approximately one pound. $35.00.
(10.00)
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Fruitcakes
The Abbey Cake, Dried Fruit Cake, Lemon Pound
Cake, Traditional Sourdough Fruitcake, and the Walnut-Ginger Cake are all wrapped in cheesecloth and
soaked in liquor. The Jamaican Black Cake contains
six types of dried and candied fruit which have been
chopped fine and marinated in wine and rum for
several months. All are outstandingly delicious, and
will keep and improve for months.
Our ABBEY CAKE, our original fruitcake is rich,
moist, and chewy, with dark raisins and walnuts
in a molasses batter, it is generously laced with
bourbon. Three and a half pound loaf: $40.00
(10.00)
Our DRIED FRUIT CAKE is made without nuts
and contains dried apples, apricots, cherries,
dates, papaya, prunes, golden raisins, and cranberries in a vanilla batter. It is available with
or without brandy - please specify. Three and a
half pound loaf: $40.00 (10.00)
Our JAMAICAN BLACK CAKE is dense and
moist, with a pudding-like texture. It is made
of prunes, raisins, currants, glacéed cherries,
and candied lemon and orange peel, which have
marinated in wine and rum for several months.
Unusual and most flavorful. Three and a half
pound loaf: $40.00 (10.00)
Our LEMON POUND CAKE is filled with pecans and golden raisins in a rich, heavy batter
and is available with or without brandy - please
specify. Three and a half pound loaf: $40.00
(10.00)
Our TRADITIONAL SOURDOUGH FRUITCAKE is loaded with glacéed cherries, pineapple,
lemon peel, orange peel, and citron, along with
raisins, currants, and pecans. It is well spiced
and soaked in dark Jamaican rum. Three and a
half pound loaf: $40.00 (10.00)
Our WALNUT GINGER CAKE is another longtime favorite. Its light-textured batter has walnuts, golden raisins, and candied ginger root, is
rich with butter, and laced with brandy. Three
and a half pound loaf: $40.00 (10.00)
Our FRUITCAKE SAMPLER offers one each of
our fruitcakes in one pound loaves: Abbey Cake,
Dried Fruit Cake, Jamaican Black Cake, Lemon
Pound Cake, Traditional Sourdough Fruitcake,
and Walnut Ginger Cake. All of the cakes in the
sampler contain alcohol. $70.00 (10.00)
Gift Boxes
Our gift boxes are constructed of maple, with fire-branded
sliding covers. Fine keepsakes, they contain high quality
foodstuffs from the Keweenaw wilderness.
Our FIRST GIFT BOX contains one each of our
two original fruitcakes: the Abbey Cake and the
Walnut Ginger Cake. Two twenty-four ounce
loaves: $55.00 (10.00) Michigan residents: add
6% sales tax $3.30.
Our SECOND GIFT BOX contains the best selling jams of all time: one jar each of Wild Thimbleberry, Wild Raspberry, Strawberry-Rhubarb,
Wild Blueberry, Wild Blackberry Jams, and Wild
Apple Butter. $62.00 (12.00) Michigan residents:
add 6% sales tax $3.72.
Our THIRD GIFT BOX contains one each of
our Cranberry-Port, Blueberry-Brandied Peach,
and Plum-Rum Conserves, offered with our Traditional Sourdough Fruitcake in a twenty-four
ounce loaf. This is an excellent gift idea, each item
unique and delicious. $60.00 (12.00) Michigan
residents: add 6% sales tax $3.60.
Our FOURTH GIFT BOX contains one each
of Wild Thimbleberry, Wild Strawberry, and
Wild Raspberry Jams, and our Abbey Cake in a
twenty-four ounce loaf. $70.00 (12.00) Michigan
residents: add 6% sales tax $4.20.
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Holy Transfiguration Skete
Society of Saint John
6559 State Highway M26, Eagle Harbor, Michigan 49950
Fax: 906.289.4388; [email protected]
http://www.societystjohn.com/jampot.jp
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Remembrance and Thanksgiving
Passing the twenty-five year mark in the life
of this monastery occasions much reflection on
past events, assessments of progress made, and
thoughts of the future. Instances of the Lord’s
guidance, protection, and providence have been
many. What the He has wrought here during
these few years is nothing short of amazing;
what He has yet in store may well be greater.
A constant has been the support of many
good people. From the neighbors who provided warmth, transportation, and firewood during our first, difficult winter, to the ladies who
brought us food and the men who re-roofed and
insulated our house, it was the help of friends
that allowed us to survive. Without them, there
would be no monastery here today.
So too, those whose contributions several
times saved us from default on our original
land contract and provided for its timely retirement, and also the friends who helped with our
first building project, and the many retreatants
and visitors who over the years have helped
with the work at hand. They have all laid the
groundwork for what now is. Through them,
HOLY TRANSFIGURATION SKETE
Society of St. John
6559 State Highway M26
Eagle Harbor, Michigan 49950
the Lord’s will for this monastery was being accomplished. May He ever reward them all for
serving as agents of His love and mercy.
We remember, as well, those whose recent
generosity has made possible the building of
our church and retirement of the monastery’s
indebtedness. They have built mightily on the
foundations laid by those who have gone before
and made this monastery a thing of beauty for
all who pass by. We pray for their continued
well being and prosperity as they share in the
disposition of Divine Providence.
We pray also for all those who reward the
work of our hands. Jampot patrons are a double
blessing to us. They brighten our day when they
visit and provide for our well being throughout
the year. They are the focus and means of our
ministry to the world. Through them the message of this monastery continues to spread.
To the friends, patrons and benefactors
of this holy monastery,
grant, O Lord, many happy years!