Metropolitan Tikhon’s Homily at Pilgrimage Divine Liturgy
The Homily of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon
111th Annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage to Saint Tikhon’s Monastery
May 25, 2015
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Glory to God that we have been granted the blessing to assemble once again in the joy of the Ascension of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ and in celebration of the lifting up into heaven of the human race, and to do so here, on the grounds of the oldest Orthodox Monastery in North America, at the celebration of this Divine Liturgy, which marks the culmination of the 111th Annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage.
Today, we are comforted with the words of the Lord in the Gospel reading…