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![Annual Feast of St. Panteleimon: August 8th & 9th](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/annual-feast-of-st-panteleimon-august-8th-9th-191183.jpg?v=1660676448)
We invite you to join us this year for the feast of our patron saint, the holy Great Matryr and Healer Panteleimon! We are pleased to announce that his Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas will return to preside for the feast. A Festal Vigil will be served on the evening of Thursday, August 8th at 6:30pm, and on the morning of Friday, August 9th, there will be a water blessing at 8am and a Hierarchal Divine Liturgy at 9am. At the conclusion of the Liturgy, we will serve a special Festal Moleben to St. Panteleimon.
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![Address of the UOC Holy Synod](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/address-of-the-uoc-holy-synod-468108.jpg?v=1695873473)
From the Union of Orthodox Journalists: Your Eminences and Your Graces! Most honorable fathers! Dear brothers and sisters! During turbulent trials for the Ukrainian people, our Church, like a loving mother, embraces all Her children with its prayers and mercy. Just...
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![Met. Nicholas Celebrates Monastery's Patronal Feast of St. Panteleimon](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/met-nicholas-celebrates-monasterys-patronal-feast-of-st-panteleimon-408971.jpg?v=1692061828)
On August 8-9, ROCOR’s First Hierarch Metropolitan Nicholas officiated the feast day celebrations of the monastery’s patron saint, the Holy Great-Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. Clergy from local ROCOR and Antiochian parishes concelebrated, and many local and out-of-state pilgrims made the...
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![St. Tikhon's Memorial Day Pilgrimage](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/st-tikhons-memorial-day-pilgrimage-362976.jpg?v=1689160007)
This past May, Hieromonk Basil and Riassophore-monk Ephraim traveled to St. Tikhon’s Monastery for the annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage. Our monks arrived several days early to participate in the festival choir conducted by Benedict Sheehan. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou), prolific author and disciple of St. Sophrony of Essex, was also present for the weekend, as was the “Hawaiian” Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.
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![Tonsure of Schemamonk Ignaty](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/tonsure-of-schemamonk-ignaty-920012.jpg?v=1689160002)
This past Great Lent, during the week of the Veneration of the Cross, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) visited the monastery to tonsure Monk Ignaty to the Great Schema.
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