Two Seminarians Tonsured
STOTS Archive
Editor
On Sunday, 4 December, 2005, Bishop Tikhon, Seminary Rector, tonsured two seminarians as Readers. Paul Scott of Wilmington, DE, and John Barnes of Miami, FL, were installed, prior to the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy, by His Grace into the first of the two "minor" Holy Orders. This event was Reader Paul and Reader John's initiation into the ranks of Orthodox Clergy, a "first step" to becoming a priest in the Orthodox Church. May God grant them many, many years! Axios! Axios! Axios!
On Monday, January 24th, members of the student body, faculty, and administration joined His Beatitude Metropolitan HERMAN in the "March for Life" in Washington, D.C., proclaiming the sanctity of human life, decrying the tragedy of abortion, and praying for its victims.
Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made abortion on demand the law of the land, millions of innocent children have died, their lives snuffed out while still in their mothers' wombs. And for over three decades, hundreds of thousands of marchers have gathered annually in Washington, DC in mid-January to protest this decision and proclaim the santity of life.
Below are photographs taken by a seminarian who attended the March:
