Monastery News – Tagged "Tonsure"– Holy Cross Monastery

1 comment ·Dec 26, 2025

Mother Theodora Takes the Great Schema as Mother Xenia

During the days of the Nativity Fast, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) visited the monastery to tonsure Nun Theodora to the Great Schema. On the afternoon of the feast day of St. Herman of Alaska, Vladyka Jonah and the Holy Cross brotherhood...

18 comments ·Apr 15, 2025

Holy Cross Abbot Takes the Great Schema, Brotherhood Elects a New Abbot

In light of his medical condition and his profound lifelong desire to end his days in the Great and Angelic Schema (the fullness of the monastic life), Archimandrite Seraphim recently asked the monastery's bishop, Metropolitan Nicholas, to tonsure him as a...

9 comments ·Apr 04, 2025

Tonsure of Fr. Martin to the Riassa

Following the Akathist Service to the Most Holy Mother of God on Friday evening, Fr. Martin was tonsured to the riassa (the first stage in becoming a monk following the novitiate). The tonsure was performed in the presence of the...

Dec 27, 2023

Two Tonsures and a New Novice During the Nativity Fast

This December during the Nativity Fast, three more men committed themselves to Christ in the monastic life at Holy Cross.

Jul 11, 2023

Tonsure of Schemamonk Ignaty

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.