Vigil service before the founder's Patron Saint-day in Visoki Decani
His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren officiated the feast's Vigil service in the monastery of Visoki Decani, on the occasion of the feast day of Saint Stefan of Decani, 23 November 2021.
The clergy and hieromonks of many dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church concelebrated in a prayerful presence of lots of monastics and priests.
At the end of the Vigil service, the Bishop tonsured four novices of the monastery who were given monastic names: Vasilije, Vlasije, Nektarije and Georgije.
The Bishop addressed all those present with an appropriate sermon, speaking about the sublimity of the monastic rank, and wished the abbot and the brothers a happy and blessed holiday. The vigil were sung by the students of the Prizren seminary, together with the brothers of the monastery.
Source: Diocese of Raska-Prizren