Holy Monastery of Pantocrator of Melissochori‘s

Our Monastery, dedicated to Pantocrator, is located on the slope of a hill, between the villages Liti and Melissohori, some kilometers away from Thessaloniki, the Saints' city. It is one - perhaps the least important - among many "institutes of souls" in our country. The Monastery started on the day of the Great St. Nicolas, December 6^th, in 1985 when God blessed and the foundation stone was laid, so it was built a place dedicated to Him. Since then everything has been going on in a quiet and humble way, undoubtedly an important, brilliant work because our Lord is" miraculous in His work and His plan can be carried out by His much weaker, as He tells us "My power is made perfect in weakness" In 1990 when the main building, (where the few members of our brotherhood   live), as well as the Catholicon of the Monastery were finished, the license was sent by the Holy Synod and the Greek Ministry. Since then the Monastery has been for Monks an ivory tower   (e.g. an independent and self-governed monastery).

The people who believe in God have admired and worshipped the Monastery from the very beginning and have approached it "like the deer which runs towards the springs", looking for some hours full of peace, and even more getting spiritual benefits and guidance. At the same moment God's Grace brings us His faithful people, who help us in different ways to complete the necessary works in the Monastery. We have to confess that whatever has been done in the Monastery is mainly God's help and then blessed people's one.

The Monastery is dedicated to Pantocrator, our Lord. The special honour on His Holy Memory is on the day of Assumption, forty days after Easter. Our Holy Fathers teach us that this event is the most important in the whole divine plan because at that moment the decadent, bad human nature goes up to Heaven and it is offered clear and new to God-Father. As you know, Monks love Virgin Mary, our sweetest Mother who protects the world, is so big that we celebrate and honour Her on October 28^th, the second holiday, the memory on the Holy Protection (auspices) of Virgin Mary. On both holidays, in the eve, there is a service, Vespers, and on the main day there is the Divine Liturgy, which a lot of priests take part in, there is litany and we offer lunch to the pilgrims. We also celebrate the following holidays on the chapels we have already mentioned 1. St Angels, on November 8^th, night service 2. St. Rafael, Nicolas and Irene, on the third day after Easter, but 3. Another chapel - in the old building - dedicated to the Holy Trinity on Monday of the Holy Spirit. We also celebrate, with night services, the memory of the patron saints of our Monastery a. Venerable Arsenios from Paros on January 31^st and b. Great St. Eustathios,Auxentios, Mardarios, Eugenios and Orestis on December 13th.

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Hours: Daily from dawn to dusk

Rules: No shorts or sleeveless shirts

Entrance fee: Free

Celebrates: Day of Assumption, Agia Skepi of the Theotokos

Address: Melissochori 57018, Thessaloniki