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Tonsure ( 26.11.2005 )

On the eve of the feast of Saint Gregory Palamas, Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica, in the church of Saints Gregory Palamas and Elder Joseph the Spilaioti in the monastery in Vodoča, tonsured the children of God Joseph and Gregory.

 

                     

 

 

 

                     

 

 

 

                   

 

 

 

“One day on the Holy Mountain, when Gregory was engrossed in prayer to God, suddenly in front of him stood a radiant man with mild features, Saint John the Theologian, and meekly looking in his direction asked him: "Why do you, praying to God, every time ceaselessly repeat: enlighten my darkness, enlighten my darkness?" Gregory answered: "What else could I ask for except that: to become illumined and to apprehend how to perform His Holy will?" Then the Holy Evangelist told him: "By the will of the Sovereign Lady of all, the Mother of God, from now on I shall be with you at all times and in all ways." (from the life of St. Gregory Palamas)