'Children's Liturgy' will be performed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

On the next Sunday in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a 'children's liturgy' will be performed. The service will be led by the Primate of the Russian Church, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

As RIA Novosti reminds, the “children's liturgy” is the main Christian service, followed by a large number of children - singing in the choir, reading aloud prayers, serving at the altar, performing other obediences during the service. The Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 23 will bring together dozens of children from Sunday schools in many parishes of the Russian capital and will allow them to feel like full participants in the solemn service under the patriarch.

As the chairman of the Church-Public Council for the Development of Russian Church Singing, the rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo (Moscow), Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, noted, from the children who come to the service “nothing is required but reverence, concentration and prayer” - that is why the liturgy adolescent children are invited, “who understand where they are, why this is all is happening. ' In particular, 21 teenagers will concelebrate in the altar for the Primate of the Russian Church and the priests.

100-150 people from each vicariate of the capital are invited to the solemn service. Thus, 1,300 children, their parents, as well as Orthodox believers from all over Moscow will gather for the Sunday patriarchal service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.