On Sunday, July 3, 2010 (Old Style), the Convent of St. Elizabeth the Grand Duchess in Etna, California, celebrated its annual Feast Day, with a small group of eleven monks, fourteen nuns, and fourteen lay people in attendance. Archbishop Chrysostomos, Bishop Auxentios, Archimandrite Akakios, and Hierodeacon Nectarios from the Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery Liturgized with Father George Mavromatis, the married Priest who serves the convent, and Father John Abraham, who was visiting briefly from the St. John the Baptist parish in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, along with son, Reader Hunna Abraham, and his brother, Reader Jamil Abraham. The services were beautifully sung by the convent choir and were followed by a luncheon for the serving clergy, the faithful and clergy from the Etna parish, and Ms. Sophia Granger, visiting from Allentown, Pensylvania. (Below left to right, Procession after Liturgy;Abbess Elizabeth; Archimandrite Akakios and Bishop Auxentios; Archbishop Chrysostomos.)