Yesterday, on the first day of the New Year of 2024, on the feast of the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ and the memory of Saint Basil the Great, the Orthros and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the church of the School of Halki, presided over by the Abbot, Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos.
Groups of pilgrims from Greece and Bulgaria attended the service.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, at the Great Synodikon of the School, the Abbot blessed the New Year’s cake (the Vasilopita), wishing all those present a happy and blessed New Year.