Source: Beacon News West Virginia
April 29, 2025
"With the Saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of Your servant, where there is no pain, no sorrow, no sighing, but life everlasting."
- Prayer from Orthodox Funeral Service
The early morning clouds gave way in small sporadic windows to a blue sky beyond after several hours of dark rain on Bright Saturday, April 26, 2025.
The gravel road leading up to the monastery was busy with vehicles marking the arrival of many who loved Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon (Voepel) and wished to say their final goodbyes. For us spiritual children, for the clergy and monastics who were touched by his love for God, his spiritual direction, his life of prayer, generous hospitality and friendship, he was known affectionately as Fr. Seraphim. Archimandrite Seraphim, Abbot of Holy Cross Monastery, formerly.
In the last weeks of his life, he realized a lifelong desire to spend his final days as a Great Schema monk, the fullness of the monastic life. He was tonsured by the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Vladyka Nicholas and was reborn in Christ as Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon.
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