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January 26, 2010
The Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God visited Holy Trinity Monastery

On Sunday evening, January 24, 2010, the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God arrived at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. The icon was triumphantly greeted with the peal of bells and by the abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Luke, the monastery brethren, and seminarians of Holy Trinity Seminary. In the monastery’s main cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, a moleben with akathist was served, led by Archimandrite Luke, co-served by diocesan secretary Archpriest Serge Lukianov, Hieromonk Theophylact, Hieromonk Cyprian, Protodeacon Vladimir Tsurikov, and Deacon Andrew Doubleday. Afterwards, in the seminary hall, Fr. Serge presented the photomontage of the icon’s visit to Russia in September 2009. The following morning the icon was present at the Midnight Office and Divine Liturgy in Holy Trinity Cathedral.

After the Liturgy, breakfast was served in the monastery trapeza, after which the icon visited the monastery cemetery and the tombs of the blessed reposed First Hierarchs of ROCOR, Metropolitans Philaret and Laurus. Because Tuesday, January 26, is the 40th day after the death of Archimandrite Joasaph (McLellan), head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, the icon visited his grave, as well. The icon then left Holy Trinity Monastery for St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Richmond, ME.

 

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese