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![Schemamonk John Reposes in the Lord](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/schemamonk-john-reposes-in-the-lord-875322.jpg?v=1660676671)
Our dear brother Schemamonk John peacefully departed this life at 11:50pm on Sunday, August 9, the feast of the Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon, the patron of our monastery. The Canon for the Departure of the Soul was being read when he reposed. The whole community gathered immediately at his bedside, and the first pannykhida was then served by Archimandrite Seraphim, Archdeacon Sergius and the monastic clergy.
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![Gravely Ill Schemamonk John Returns to the Hermitage](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/gravely-ill-schemamonk-john-returns-to-the-hermitage-196459.jpg?v=1660676667)
On Tuesday, July 28, Schemamonk John (Dezorzi) returned to the Hermitage of the Holy Cross. Fr. John was a part of the Hermitage brotherhood from 1998 until 2006, when he left and afterward lived in several other monasteries. However, several weeks ago he called the Hermitage because he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and wished to spend his last days here at Holy Cross.
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![Festal Celebration of Archimandrite Seraphim's Namesday](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/festal-celebration-of-archimandrite-seraphims-namesday-756576.jpg?v=1660676665)
On Friday the 31st of July and Saturday the 1st of August, the brotherhood of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross joyously celebrated the feast day of St. Seraphim of Sarov with an Akathist and Divine Liturgy. This feast is dear to the hearts to the Hermitage brethren not simply as it is the Name Day of their abbot, Archimandrite Seraphim, but because St. Seraphim stands as a luminary of the Russian Church and a guide for monastics in these last days.
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![English Service to St. Paisios the Athonite Celebrated at the Hermitage](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/english-service-to-st-paisios-the-athonite-celebrated-at-the-hermitage-663058.jpg?v=1660676694)
On the evening of Monday, July 13th, the brethren of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross celebrated the Vigil service in honor of the newly-glorified St. Paisios the Athonite – perhaps the first time anywhere in the world that the service was sung in English. The next morning, on Tuesday the 14th, the Divine Liturgy was served in honor of this great saint of the latter times.
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![Bright Monday - Installation of Archimandrite Seraphim as Abbot of Holy Cross Monastery, Ordination of a New Hierodeacon & Departure of Bp. George](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/bright-monday-installation-of-archimandrite-seraphim-as-abbot-of-holy-cross-monastery-ordination-of-a-new-hierodeacon-departure-of-bp-george-223423.jpg?v=1660676661)
On Monday April 13th, the festive day of Bright Monday, the clergy of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV, led by His Grace George, Bishop of Mayfield, celebrated a festal Divine Liturgy. A multitude of Orthodox faithful and clergy from areas surrounding the monastery came for this Liturgy and the festive meal following in order to bid farewell to Bishop George, as this was his last Divine Liturgy at the monastery before leaving for his new appointment as Bishop of Canberra in the Diocese of Australia & New Zealand. His Grace departed for Australia on the following morning, April 14th.
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