Veľká sobotňajšia večerňa z Osadného, 16.11.2024. - Great Vespers of St.Ioannikios the Great from the village of Osadne,Snina District,Presov Region,Slovakia

Orthodox Church of the Ascension of Our Lord*Priest:Father Peter Soroka*The opening bells are called the trezvon.*I love the Carpatho-Rusyn chant.I am Carpatho-Rusyn on my mother's side.*His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav (Gont) of the Czech Lands and Slovakia is Carpatho-Rusyn.*Premudrost,Prosti:Wisdom,Let us attend (at the Great Entrance of Great Vespers)*The little boy appears to have a vocation to the priesthood,bless his heart.*Everything is chanted in the East Slavic tradition.*St.Ioannikios the Great the Venerable,Wonderworker was a tonsured monk in Asia Minor,Turkey in the eighth to ninth centuries.He was an itinerant monk who had the gift of healing.He ultimately took the side of the icons in the iconoclast controversy.He reposed at the age of 94.