NOVICES OF THE SCHOOL OF ZION RECEIVE THE MONASTIC CASSOCK

On Ash Tuesday morning, February 19/March 3, 2020, after the Service of Matins at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos blessed the monastic cassock for four Novices of the School of Zion, two of the 1^st grade and two of the 2^nd grade of Lyceum, as the beginning of their lives as novice monks, in order to join the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood after their graduation.

Blessing their cassocks, His Beatitude wished the students a fruitful Hagiotaphite training, and the strength to fight the good fight of the virtues during Great Lend.

From Secretariat-General