Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos
Monastery

 

Theophany 2006

Great Blessing of Waters

Weaverville, North Carolina

A very cold but beautiful winter day

Archimandrite Gregory incenses
Retired OCA priest Fr Henry Paul Boisvert assists with the ceremony
Reader John Cummings holds the Abbot's staff during the prayers

of the Great Sanctification of Waters

Monastery choir with Seminarian John L Barnes helping out with the tenor section
The cross is lowered beneath the water during the Blessing of Waters
Fr Seraphim is sprinkled with the newly blessed Jordan water

 

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