On June 3, 2024, the feast day of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, the bishops of the Vyatka Metropolis celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a prayer service with the Akathist to St. Nicholas of Myra in the Assumption Trifonov Monastery in Kirov. Divine services preceded the beginning of the All-Russian Velikoretsky cross procession.
The Divine Liturgy and prayer service to St. Nicholas was led by Metropolitan Mark of Vyatka and Slobodsk. He was accompanied by Bishop Paisius of Yaransk and Luz, Bishop Vsevolod of Urzhum and Omutninsk, and numerous clergy.
The liturgical chants were performed by the choir of the Vyatka diocese under the direction of the regent Julia Skopina.
Prayerful participation in the spiritual feast was taken by the pilgrims of the Velikoretsky procession, who once again gathered on the Vyatka land to make a multi-day procession following the image of St. Nicholas to the place where the icon was found on the banks of the Velikaya River.
The pilgrims of the Velikoretsky procession gathered on the Vyatka land to make a multi-day procession following the image of St. Nicholas to the place where the icon was found.
Archpriest Alexander Balyberdin, the clergyman of the Assumption Cathedral, addressed the faithful with a sermon.
At the end of the Liturgy in the church on the Cathedral Square of the Trifonov Monastery in front of the Velikoretsky image.
The governor of Kirov region A.V. Sokolov addressed the pilgrims with words of farewell and congratulations.
The Governor of Kirov region A.V. Sokolov addressed the pilgrims with words of farewell and congratulations.
Then 20 thousand pilgrims left the walls of Trifonov Monastery following the Velikoretsk image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The main triumphs of the Velikoretsky procession will take place on June 6 on the bank of the Velikaya River, at the place of the appearance of the Velikoretsky icon of St. Nicholas.
From the website of the Vyatka Diocese
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