Prayers Requested for Schemamonk John

August 3, 2015

    

Schemamonk John (Dezorzi) who was a member of the brotherhood of the Holy Cross Hermitage in Wayne, WV from 1998 until 2006 returned to the Hermitage on July 28. Fr. John first became a monastic in 1973 and was tonsured into the Great Schema in 1976 at Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, MA, which at that time belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. After his time in the hermitage Fr. John was a member of several other monasteries, but upon being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer he decided he wanted to spend his last days again at Holy Cross, with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion, as reported on the Hermitage's website.

Fr. John is under hospice care and is the first monk to stay in the new infirmary room located in the St. Panteleimon Dorm. Someone from the monastery is with him at all times, and the monks read the morning and evening prayers, the Akathist to the Mother of God, as well as Scriptural and other spiritual passages to him daily. Fr. John has and is continuing to prepare for the end of his life, and he joyfully received Holy Communion in church on the feast of St. Seraphim.

Fr. John is very weak and according to the hospice nurse has only a short time remaining to live. Therefore, the brotherhood of the Holy Cross Hermitage is asking everyone to please remember Schemamonk John in their prayers.

3 августа 2015 г.

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Комментарии
Giancarlo Acconcia27 июля 2016, 18:00
Father God, I beg help and assistance in this hour of grief and despair. Amen
Katarina25 ноября 2015, 13:00
Please pray for me Katarina born 1982 year....
Pastor Ed Deming15 августа 2015, 00:00
Father John was a blessing to me, bringing me much joy and laughter. My life was impacted in wonderful ways because I got to know him over the past 4 years. God richly bless him through eternity! (Pastor Ed Deming, Columbus, OH)
Fr. Pedro 5 августа 2015, 06:00
Por las oraciones de nuestros santos padres seсor Jesucristo nuestro Dios ten piedad de mi hermano Fr. Jhon Fr. Pedro de Miami
Aleksandra 4 августа 2015, 13:00
What a beautiful way to spend the last days. May God be with him!
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