June 9, 2015
Jordanville, NY: Bishop Nicholas leads Divine Services for Third Day
of Pentecost in Holy Trinity Monastery
On
Tuesday, June 2, the Third Day of Pentecost, His Grace, Eastern
American Diocesan vicar Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, celebrated
Divine Liturgy at
Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. The day marked the
last day of celebrations of the monastery’s patronal feast day,
which began with Holy Pentecost on Sunday and Holy Spirit Day on
Monday. In addition to the feast, clergy commemorated the Holy
Hierarch Alexis of Moscow, Wonderworker of all Russia, before an
icon with pieces of the relics of the Holy Hierarchs of Moscow.
His
Grace was co-served by monastery and visiting clergy: the abbot,
Archimandrite Luke (Murianka), Archimandrite Nektarios (Harding),
diocesan secretary Archpriest Serge Lukianov, Archpriest Alexis
Duncan (rector of Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Albany,
NY), Hieromonk Cyprian (Alexandrou), Priest Alexis Pjawka (secretary
of the Canadian Diocese), Priest Andrei Rudenko (cleric of Nativity
of the Mother of God Church), Hieromonks Moses (Borges), Gabriel
(Astrahankine), and Anatoly (Zilin), Priest Ephraim Willmarth,
Protodeacon Joseph Jarostchuk (cleric of St. John of Kronstadt
Memorial Church in Utica, NY), and Hierodeacons Seraphim (Nikoloski)
and Avakum. Monastery cleric Deacon Peter Markevich sang on the
kliros.
After
the service, the clergy, brethren, and faithful proceeded to the
monastery refectory for a festal luncheon.
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