On November 4, 2024, the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Day of National Unity, the chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Vicar of the Donskiy Stavropegial Monastery Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir presided over the Throne Feast at the Mother of God Nativity Stavropegial Nunnery in Moscow.
Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir.
His Eminence was served by Archpriest Alexis Duncan, rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Albany (New York, USA), and the monastery clergy.
His Eminence was served by Archpriest Alexis Duncan and the monastery clergy.
Before the Divine Liturgy, according to the tradition of the Throne Feast, a water blessing prayer was celebrated.
The divine service was prayed for by: the abbess of the monastery Higumeness Victorina (Perminova); deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, abbess Zachatievsky Stavropegial Nunnery in Moscow Higumeness Juliana (Kaleda); Prioress of the Stavropegial Nunnery — Marfa-Marina Monastery of Mercy Marfa-Marina Cloister of Mercy href="http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/6003804.html">Higumeness Elisaveta (Pozdnyakova); G.V. Filippova, Head of the Office of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; the sisters and parishioners of the monastery.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy there was a glorification of the Most Holy Mother of God before Her Kazan icon.
After the festive service, Vladyka Theognost delivered an archpastoral address to those praying.
After the Divine Liturgy, Vladyka Theognost delivered an archpastoral address.
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