THE PROCESSION OF THE GREAT HOURS OF THEOPHANY
According to the typical order of the Church, which provides that when the feast of Theophany falls on a Sunday, the Great Hours are read out on Friday, the Great Hours of Theophany were read out on Friday the 4th/17th of January 2014, at the monastic church of Sts Constantine and Helen of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood.
The procession of the Hours, which followed Matins, was led by His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, who read out the Gospel of the First Hour, with co-praying Prelates reading out the Gospel of the Third, Sixth and Ninth Hour.
The procession was attended in piety by monks, nuns, and pilgrims in anticipation of the Lesser Blessing of the Waters on Saturday, and the Great Blessing of Theophany on Sunday.
From the Secretariat-General