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“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass its master’s crib: but Israel doth not know Me, and the people hath not regarded Me” (Isaiah 1:3).
To the Sacred Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Thebes.
“… Your Elder was incapable of making a living otherwise and surviving, so he found you all and plays the Elder; he was not the spiritual child of Fr. Panteleimon Kathreptides, as you write in your Calendar, but rather of his Elder Aemilanos…”
Anonymous letter sent from Thessalonica, March, 2000.
| 1 S Prophet Nahum, Philaret the Merciful, Theocletos, Archbishop of Lacedemonia. | 17 M + Prophet Daniel & the Three Holy Children, Dionysios of Zakynthos. |
| 2 S + 14th Sunday of Luke, Prophet Habbakuk, Martyr Myrope. | 18TMartyrs Sebastianos, Zoe & their Companions. |
| 3 M Prophet Zephaniah, Martyr Agapios. | 19 W Martyr Boniface, Aglaias the Roman. |
| 4 T + Great Martyr Barbara. John of Damascus, Hieromartyr Serapheim, Bishop of Phanarion. | 20 T + Ignatios the God-bearer of Antioch. |
| 5 W + Savva the Sanctified, Martyr Diogenes. | 21 F Martyrs Juliana, Themistocles and the 500 with them. |
| 6 T + Nicholas, Bishop of Myra and Lycia the Wonderworker. | 22 S + Great-martyr Anastasia the Pharmacist. |
| 7 F + Ambrose of Milan, Blessed Gerasimos. | 23 S + Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, 10 Martyrs of Crete, Nahum the Missionary. |
| 8 S Blessed Patapios, Sosthenes & Apollo, Apostles of the 70. | 24 M + Eve of the Nativity (fast), Martyr Eugenia. |
| 9 S + 10th Sunday of Luke, Conception of the Theotokos by St. Anna. | 25 T + Nativity of Christ our Saviour. |
| 10 M Martyrs Hermogenes, Eugraphos, & Thomas. | 26 W + Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos. |
| 11 T Stylites Daniel & Luke the New. | 27 T + Stephen the First Martyr. |
| 12 W + Wonderworker Spyridon, Bishop of Trimythountos. | 28 F + Simon the Myrrh-gusher, 2000 martyrs of Nicomedia. |
| 13 T Herman of Alaska, Virgin Martyr Lucia. | 29 S Holy Innocents slain by Herod. |
| 14 F Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus. | 30 S + Sunday after the Nativity of Christ, Martyrs Anysia & Philaret. |
| 15 S + Hieromartyr Eleutherios & Anthia his Mother. | 31 M Blessed Melanie the Roman, Hieromartyr Zotikos. |
| 16 S + 11th Sunday of Luke, Prophet Haggai, Modestos. |
Our beloved Dionysios: from the time that you were a small child, God was pleased to call you, to make Himself known to you, that you might love Him. You didn’t need to weep for any former life, passed in vanities, and to say, as the others said, “Alas! for the time that I did not love You!” You always loved Him. He, Who is the expectation of the nations, was ever the expectation of your own heart. “Therefore, keep thyself for Christ”. The Lord’s word ordered His angels to guard you as a sheep for Him, for this hour. So the prophet says, and really, he speaks the truth. Therefore bow this head of yours, struggle in a way worthy of God, become a true martyr of the Lord God, rejoice your father’s heart, fill your brothers with gladness.
Why have you approached, brother ...
(The rest of the service of the Tonsure to the Great Schema follows, with the questions and answers that constitute the vows.)
EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS MONASTERY
322 00 THEBES BOEOTIA, GREECE.
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