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Orthodox Church on the west side of Phoenix Arizona including Sun City, Surprise, Peoria, Glendale, Litchfield Park, Buckeye, Tonopah, and more

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How Monastics Acquire Their New Names?

April 26, 2021 By Fr. John Peck [edit]

Ever wonder why and how monastics receive a new name? What are the criteria for choosing names given to monks and priests? Can they influence the choice of their future names in one way or another?  During this Great Lent many monastic novices became nuns, they took the monastic vows. It happened on April 15th. Several sisters took the Rassaphore and Stavrophore vows in our Convent. They were tonsured by the Most Reverend Veniamin, Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl. The good tradition to perform tonsures during the Lenten season is not accidental: it’s the time when all services and prayers are designed to help us reconsider and improve our fallen way of living. We have heard the Gospel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Theology Tagged With: monastic, name, Orthodox, tradition [post-edit]

All Saints of North America Orthodox Church

18700 N. 107th Ave Unit#5
Sun City, AZ 85373

(928) 910-2186

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Wednesday June 4, 2025 / May 22, 2025

Afterfeast of the Ascension. Tone six.
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Venerable Dodo of the St. David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (596) (movable holiday on the Wednesday of Holy Ascension). Hieromartyr Basiliscus, bishop of Comana (308). St. John-Vladimir, martyr and ruler of Serbia (1015). Blessed James, youth of Borovichi (Novgorod) (1540). New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1942). Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).

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