08.09.2025
VATOPEDI MONASTERY VIDEO LIBRARY
"The ode to Joseph of Athos, wise and unsparing of the perfect hesychasts"
The memory of the Holy and God-bearing Father Joseph the Hesychast was celebrated on August 16, 2025 (BC) according to the old calendar on Mount Athos, by transfer, as Saint Joseph fell asleep in death on August 15 (BC), the day of the Theotokos' feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. In the Vatopedi Monastery, the Brotherhood of which originates from the root of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, since the blessed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi was a member of the holy Father's entourage, solemnly celebrated the memory of Saint Joseph. On the eve, the Vespers service was performed by the Metropolitan of Patras, Mr. Chrysostomos, followed by a reception in the Synod of the Monastery and at night the Morning Service was performed. On the morning of the day of the feast, a Disarchieral Divine Liturgy was performed in the Catholicon of the Monastery, presided over by the Metropolitan of Patras, flanked by the Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, Mr. Justinos, the Abbot Elder Ephraim and other Fathers. The lecterns were flanked by Vatopaidi Fathers, the Archon Maistor of the M.t.C.E. Grigorios Ntaravanoglou, as well as the Protopsaltis Ioannis Hasanidis, with a group of his students.