Saint Elizabeth Skete is a monastic community for women founded by Metropolitan Laurus in 1987. The skete is located not far from Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY.

        Following the traditional monastic way, the nuns share a common life of work and prayer, a life based upon simple obedience to the commandments of Christ and Holy Scriptures. To support themselves the nuns sew, make hand-dipped beeswax candles, manufacture church incense, produce original hand-painted icons, make natural skin creams and blend herbal teas. In the summer they tend their flower and vegetable gardens.

        The Skete is named in honor of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth the New Martyr, and the nuns strive to follow her example and to be guided by her precepts. Daily services, chanted in Church Slavonic and English, are held in the skete’s house chapel.


 
“Be closer to each other, be as one single soul, wholly devoted to  our Lord, and say, as did Saint John Chrysostom: Glory to God for everything.... You must draw closer to God. The Lord says, My son, give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe My ways… {If you do this} then you can be sure that you have given everything to God because you have given Him your heart, and that means your very self.