The Hawaiian Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon will visit the Romanian Monastery in Mono, Ontario, Canada, for a two-day celebration in honour of the Mother of God.
The Romanian Monastery at Mono invites all Orthodox clergy and believers for a pilgrimage in honour of the Panagia Gerontissa that will include prayers, processions and spiritual lectures starting on July 22.
Special guests include His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada, Fr. Dumitru Gavrila, a spiritual son of Elders Cleopas Ilie and Arsenie Papacioc, and Fr. Nectarios Yangson, the guardian of the Hawaiian Myrrh-streaming Icon.
July 22, 2023
8:00 AM – Matins
9:30 AM – Hierarchal Divine Liturgy
12:00 PM – Agape meal (Fellowship Lunch)
2:00 PM – Holy Unction in front of the Hawaiian Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon and the Gerontissa Icon of the Mother of God
3:30 PM – Procession with the two Icons of the Mother of God
5–7 PM – Psalter reading
7:00 PM – Vespers with Akathist Hymn to Hawaii’s Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon
9 PM – Psalter reading
11:30 PM – Supplicatory canon to the Mother of God
July 23, 2023
12:00AM – 7AM Psalter reading
7:00 AM – Akathist Hymn to the Gerontissa Icon of Mother of God
8:00 AM – Matins with the Akathist Hymn to Hawaii’s Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon
10:30 AM – Divine Liturgy
12:30 PM – Agape meal (Fellowship Lunch)
12:30- 5 PM – Psalter reading
7:00 PM – Vespers with Akathist Hymn to Hawaii’s Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon and the Gerontissa Icon of the Mother of God
10 PM– Psalter reading
11:30 PM – Supplicatory canon to the Mother of God
July 24 2023
12:00 AM – Divine Liturgy
The main patronal feast of the Monastery is the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 15). St. Ephrem the New (May 5) and the Gerontissa Icon of the Theotokos (December 2) are also considered additional patronages.
Photography courtesy of the Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery – Mono
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