On January 7th, 2017, the feast of the Synaxis of the Honorable Forerunner, at the Holy Monastery of the same name, at Anatoli of Agia, took place the service of the rassophoria of the novice Garyfalia Vastianou during the Afterfeast Vespers! In the midst of a snowy landscape which prevented access to the Holy Monastery, in the Old Katholikon of the Honorable Forerunner, in which such feasts had not been celebrated for decades, in the presence of a few stranded, fortunate pilgrims, Fr. Spiridon Tsimouris carried out the rassophoria with the special blessing of His Eminence our Metropolitan Ignatios, who was unable to reach the Holy Monastery, despite his having hoped right up until the last hour to do so. We experienced moments that were historic, unique, hearkening back to early Christian experience, unforgettable – moments mystically treasured by our predecessors, the holy fathers, and which secure and strengthen the new monastic sisterhood and the shining, new Nun Theolipti. (Named for a Nun-Martyr whose memory is honored on November 1^st.) Pray for her and for us!