The Despotic feast of the Ascension of the Lord at the Esphigmenou Monastery in Karyes on Mount Athos was celebrated with brilliance, on Thursday, June 6.
Metropolitan Timotheos of Thessaly officiated at the Divine Liturgy, along with the Abbot of the Monastery of Great Lavra, Elder Prodromos, and the Abbot of the Esphigmenou Monastery, Elder Bartholomew.
A sanctification was also held in the courtyard in the presence of Holy Relics.
Later, the well-established treat of Mount Athos was served in the parlor in the presence of pilgrims.