Later that year, on the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (June 23/July 6), a moleben was performed on the monastery site and the locations for the future monastery buildings consecrated.

On this historic day, Fr Peter transferred the parcel to the diocese for its first monastery. On the feast day of the Holy Spirit (also the holidays of St Onouphry the Great and St Peter of Athos), June 12/25, 1956, a moleben was performed by Vladyka Savva, who then examined the site of the future monastery together with Hieromonk Dimitry (Obukhov) and Fr Peter Grishaev. In 1955, when Archbishop Savva (Raevsky +1976) became the Ruling Bishop of the Australian Diocese, he wished to establish both men’s and women’s monasteries within its territory, and a year later it was decided to establish a men’s monastery honoring All Saints. Novo Shamordino is located in the town of Kentlyn, 50 km from Sydney, a part of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, on a parcel of land donated by Protodeacon Peter Grishaev of Sydney’s SS Peter and Paul Cathedral. Vladyka Nikolai also performed a pannikhida for Abbess Evpraksia (Pustovalova, +2006), the former head of the convent.ĭuring the services, the new abbess of the convent, Mother Maria (Miros) prayed and sang on the kliros with the other nuns, as well as Abbess Ioanna (Smolina) of the Convent of the Tabyn Icon of the Mother of God in Kurort, in the Gafuria region of Ufa Diocese. On the evening before, he performed vigil and matins at Novoe Shamardino Convent of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kentlyn (Sydney), NSW. On Wednesday, August 7, 2013, the feast day of the repose of Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most-Holy Mother of God, the Holy Deaconesses of Olympia (409) and St Eupraxia the Virgin of Tavenna (413), His Grace Bishop Nikolai of Salavat and Kumertau celebrated Liturgy along with Protopriest Nikita Chemodakov, Rector of St Nicholas Church in Sydney and Dean of New South Wales Priest Dionisy Khalima, Assistant to the Chief of the Indonesia Ecclesiastical Mission and Deacon Samuil Vishnevsky of St George Church in Carleton. Kazan Convent in the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand Celebrates the Namesday of its Late Abbess The Child is here revealed as the Grace of all the world, and the Virgin is the bearer of this “Great Grace” which will transfigure us and make us holy if we will learn to cooperate and do all that He says.Diocese of Australia and New Zealand: August 14, 2013 In Christ’s halo are the Greek letters for “I AM” for although the Divine Infant is revealed as a Child, He is always the All-Knowing God depicted by the adult features of His face. 431 to refute the Nestorian Heresy) cradles her Son as He reaches up to touch her face with His blessed hand. Here in this icon the Virgin Theotokos (from the Greek “Birth-Giver of God”, a term of honor confirmed for her at the Third Ecumenical Council in a.d. Athos is also dedicated to the protection and rulership of the Virgin Mary as its icon and abbess. The Holy Mountain is dedicated to the Orthodox monastic life and has flourished for over a thousand years with all forms of Orthodox monasticism present (hermetic, semi-hermetic, and communal) and made up of people of many Orthodox nationalities.

This icon of the Virgin Mary was painted in 1989 by the Monk Michael of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a monastic republic on a peninsula in northeastern Greece.

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