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PRAYER REQUEST

A Blessed Start to the School Year

The new school year has begun! At our monastery’s Ichthys School, we traditionally mark this occasion with a special prayer service, asking God’s blessing on the journey of learning ahead for our students and teachers. Photos by M. Chernogolov.

God’s blessing on the journey of learning

a boy at the reliquary

a prayer service for the beginning of the school year

altar boys

a girl

asking God’s blessing on the journey of learning

a special service for schoolchildren

a special prayer service for monastery’s schoolchildren

at the classroom

the director of the monastery’s Ichthys School

children from the kindergarten

first graders

Father Andrey Lemeshonok

Ichthys School pupils

joyful meeting

annointing with the holy oil

celebrating the First Day of School

performance at the monastery’s Ichthys School

the first bell

pupils of the convent's school singing