St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery is a women's monastic community of the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America. The Monastery was founded in 1992 and has been located in Santa Paula, California, since late 2005.  The Sisters maintain a regular cycle of daily liturgical services and partly earn their living by giving retreats, writing, teaching, production of iconography, notecards and greeting cards, and the operation of a small bookstore and online gift shop.

(Our community before Oct. 22, 2009.)

***Jan. 25, 2010 Click here for our latest newsletter that includes an update on our sisters in Calistoga. 

***Jan. 25, 2010  Join us for our January Friends Gathering on Sunday, Jan. 31. Fr Paul Waisanen will present a talk entitled "Orthodox Christian Apologetics, Part I." 4pm presentation, 5pm Vespers, 6pm potluck. (Note: This Friends Gathering is subject to temperate weather; should it rain this day, we will have to cancel the gathering.)

***Dec. 28  We've added a few new items to our bookstore: The Jordanville Prayer Book, A Spiritual Psalter (St. Ephraim), and the beautiful pocket Psalter. Additional titles will be added soon.

***Dec. 25 Christ is born! Glorify Him! 

We wish you all a blessed Christmas!

Troparion of the Nativity of our Lord- Tone 4 
Thy Nativity, O Christ our God,
Has shone to the world the Light of wisdom!
For by it, those who worshipped the stars,
Were taught by a Star to adore Thee,
The Sun of Righteousness,
And to know Thee, the Orient from on High.
O Lord, glory to Thee!

Kontakion - Tone 3
Today the Virgin giveth birth to Him Who is above all being,
And the earth offers a cave to the Him whom no man can approach.
Angels with shepherds give glory;
The magi journey with a star.
For unto us is born a young Child, the pre-eternal God!

***Dec. 23 Hot off the press! Read our latest Christmas newsletter.

***Dec. 14 Thank you for your prayers for our sisters in Calistoga. Read a report about Holy Assumption Monastery here.