22.01.2026
VATOPEDI MONASTERY VIDEO LIBRARY
"We have entered the new year of the Lord's goodness." New Year at the Vatopedi Monastery
On Wednesday, (14/01/26 AD – 01/01/26 BC) the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the entrance into the new year was celebrated with monastic devotion, at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The Vigil and the Eucharistic Synaxis were presided over by the Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, Mr. Justinos. After the services, in the Synodical Hall of the Monastery, Metropolitan Justinos blessed the established agiovasilopita and together with Elder Ephraim, they addressed festive speeches of spiritual edification to the fathers and pilgrims and before the Meal they distributed the agiovasilopita to them.