ARCHIEPISCOPAL DIVINE SERVICE ON ST. ANDREW'S DAY IN BACHKOVO MONASTERY
 
On today's day, when the Church celebrates the memory of the first appealled
Apostle Andrew, whose spiritual eye, hidden from himself, recognized in Jesus Christ the Savior and Son of God before the carnal has seen him, an Episcopal Holy Liturgy was celebrated in the newly restored All Saints' Church of the Bachkovo Monastery by Bishop Sionii, abbot of the monastery. Congratulating the monastery brothers and the faithful pilgrims on the feast, bishop Sionii first emphasized the holy feat of the Apostle Andrew, who spent his whole life in the service of the Word shining on the cross and accepted the same cross, with the joy of being conformed to Christ, as the crown of his own life!
St. Andrew the Apostle accepted the death of the cross in the town of Patras during the persecutions of Nero, the emperor assumed by the first Christians to be the incarnation of the antichrist!
 
With the blessing of the Most Reverend Abbot, from this day until the end of the Nativity Fast, liturgies will be celebrated in all the churches and chapels of the Holy Monastery, according to the following program:
30.11, St. Andrew's Day “All Saints”' Church.
04.12, St. Barbara - Church-ossuary "Resurrection of Lazarus".
05.12, Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral with liturgy and prayer in the Church of “St. Archangels”.
06.12, St. Nicholas' Day - baptismal church "St. Nicholas".
09.12, Conception of St. Anna - prayer service in the chapel of “Sts. Theodore of Tyre and Theodore Stratilat”.
18.12, St. Modestus of Jerusalem - chapel "Sts. Apostles”.
20.12, St. Ignatius - chapel “John the Baptist”.
22.12, St. Anastasia - chapels of the Cluvia