GOC-Tonsure of a Nun in Canada

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Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:29 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original NOTE: This convent was founded and owned originally by the ROCOR Our Lady of Vladimir Convent in San Francisco, and had been for many years in our ROCA, -until the 2007 betrayal to the MP. From: Saint Edward Brotherhood <info@saintedwardbrotherhood.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:02 PM Subject: Tonsure of a Nun   From: Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery Date: 2 August 2017 01:45:26 GMT+01:00 TO:  Diocesan Clergy, Faith, and Friends FROM: The Brotherhood of the Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas 19 July, 2017 (Old Style) Tonsure of a Nun at the Convent of the Holy Protection, Bluffton, Alberta, Canada This morning at the historic Convent of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada, one of the oldest monastic communities of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, His Eminence, Bishop Auxentios of Etna and Portland tonsured one of the eight monastics at the convent, Novice Mary, to the rank of a Rasophore nun. Appropriately enough, she took the name “Seraphima,”  on today’s Feast of the uncovering of the Relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov. The convent in Bluffton entered into our jurisdiction some ten years ago, under then Metropolitan (formerly Archbishop) Chrysostomos of Etna, shortly before a sizable portion of the "ROCA united with the Moscow Patriarchate", lead by Met. Laurus Skurla. Pictured below, at the tonsure, are His Eminence, at right, the venerable Abbess of the Convent, Schema-nun Mother Amvrosia, at center, and the newly-tonsured Sister Seraphima. Present at the tonsure was the Priest who serves the convent, Hieromonk Dionisije.