On August 9, 2024, the feast day of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Vicar of the Donskiy Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the side chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary of the Monastery. Moscow Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God chapel of the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita on Shvivaya Hill behind the Yauza in Moscow (Athon's suburb).
Metropolitan Feognost.
Before the beginning of the service, Metropolitan Theognost bowed down to the relics of St. Aristoklios, the elder of Athos and Moscow.
His Eminence was accompanied at the Divine Liturgy by Hieromonk Nikita (Smernyagin), acting rector of the Moscow suburb of the Russian on Athos Panteleimon Monastery, and clerics of the suburb in the clergy.
His Eminence was accompanied by Hieromonk Nikita (Smernyagin), clerics of the suburb in the clergy.
The monastery choir performed the liturgical hymns.
At the requiem Litany, petitions were offered for the newly deceased hegumen Nikon (Smirnov), who from 2004 to 2018 was the abbot of the Moscow sub-village of the Panteleimonov Monastery.
At the end of the Liturgy, Metropolitan Feognost celebrated the glorification and the reading of the prayer before the icon
The bishop then congratulated everyone on the feast and addressed the audience with an archpastoral word.
At the end of the service, a funeral liturgy was celebrated for the newly deceased healer, Father Nikon.
At the end of the service, a requiem liturgy was served for the newly martyred hegumen Nikon, who rested in the Lord on August 8 this year in the Russian on Athos Panteleimon Monastery.
At the end of the service, a requiem liturgy was served for the newly martyred hegumen Nikon, who rested in the Russian on Athos Panteleimon Monastery.
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