On May 24, 2024, the day of the commemoration of the Equal Apostles Methodius and Cyril, teachers of Slovenia, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. The day also marks the Day of Slavonic Script and Culture and the namesake of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill.
On his arrival at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill worshiped the miracle-working Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God, installed in the center of the temple. On May 21, with the blessing of His Holiness, the miracle-working image was brought to Moscow from the Tikhvin Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos.
His Holiness was served by: Metropolitan Yuvenaly (Poyarkov); Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, head of the Middle Asian Metropolitan District; Metropolitan Varsonofiy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga; Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus; Metropolitan Grigory of Voskresensk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, First Vicar of the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia in Moscow; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Nikandr of Naro-Fominsk, chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Methodius of Perm and Kungur; Metropolitan Sergius of Voronezh and Liskinsky; Metropolitan Alexis of Tula and Efremov; Metropolitan German of Kursk and Rylsk; Metropolitan Seraphim (Zaliznitsky); Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan and Tatarstan; Metropolitan Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Vichuga; Metropolitan Joseph of Ulan-Ude and Buryat; Metropolitan Mercury of Rostov and Novocherkassk; Metropolitan Seraphim of the Baltic and Svetlogorsk; Metropolitan Alexander of Bryansk and Sevsk; Metropolitan Daniel of Kurgan and Belozersk; Metropolitan Daniil of Kurgan and Belozersk; Metropolitan Daniel of Kurgan and Belozersk; Metropolitan Feognost of Kashira, chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; Metropolitan Theodosius of Tambov and Rasskazovo; Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas; Metropolitan Longin of Simbirsk and Novospassky; Metropolitan Amvrosy of Tver and Kashin, chairman of the Synodal Liturgical Commission; Metropolitan Sergius of Singapore and Southeast Asia, Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia; Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk; Metropolitan Tikhon of Orel and Bolkhov; Metropolitan Zinovy of Saransk and Mordovia; Metropolitan Pavel of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut; Metropolitan Savva of Vologda and Kirillovsk; Metropolitan Ignatius of Saratov and Volga; Metropolitan Cornelius of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk; Metropolitan Cornelius of Vladivostok and Vladimir of Primorye; Metropolitan Sergius of Barnaul and Altai; Metropolitan Peter of Orenburg and Saraktash; Metropolitan Constantine of Zaraisk, Patriarchal Exarch of Africa; Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture; Metropolitan Arseny of Pskov and Porkhov; Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechization; Metropolitan Alexy of Chelyabinsk and Miass; Metropolitan Vasily of Ekaterinodar and Kuban; the Council of Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches participated in the service: Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis (Antiochian Orthodox Church); Archimandrite Stephen (Disypirakis) (Jerusalem Orthodox Church); Archimandrite Stephen (Disypirakis) (Jerusalem Orthodox Church) Seraphim (Shemyatovsky) (Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia); Protopriest Daniel Andreiuk (Orthodox Church in America).
Holy Vladyka was also served by: Protopresbyter Vladimir Divakov, Secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia for Moscow; Protopriest Mikhail Ryazantsev, Clerk of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; Protopriest Nikolai Balashov, advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Protopriest Maxim Kozlov, chairman of the Teaching Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church; archimandrite Filaret (Bulekov), deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchal Church's Department of the Russian Orthodox Church; Archpriest Dionisy Kazantsev, secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia for the Moscow region; archimandrite Vassian (Zmeyev), head of Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem; Protpriest Nikolai Lishchenyuk, Vice-Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate; Protpriest Igor Yakimchuk, Vice-Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate; Archpriest Michael Nikolaev, rector of the Church of the First-Faithful Apostles Peter and Paul in Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Oblast (Tikhvin Eparchy); Priest Vasily Losev, head of the legal service of the Moscow Metropolitan Church; dean and clergy from Moscow.
Among the attendees were vicars of stavropegial monasteries: Archimandrite Sergius (Voronkov), vicar of the Joseph-Volotsk Monastery; archimandrite Theophylact (Bezukladnikov), vicar of the Voskresensky New Jerusalem Monastery; archimandrite Stephen (Tarakanov), vicar of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery; hegumen John (Ludishchev), vicar of Sretensky Monastery; hegumen Methodius (Zinkovsky), vicar of Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery; Higumen Dionisy (Shlyonov), Vicar of Andreevsky Monastery; Hieromonk Daniel (Konstantinov), Acting Vicar of Zaikonospassky Monastery.
The temple was attended by: Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D.N. Chernyshenko; Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District I.O. Shchegolev; Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs L.E. Slutsky; Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Property, Land and Property Relations S.A. Gavrilov; Governor of St. Petersburg A.D. Beglov; Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Advisor to the Mayor of Moscow, Advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on construction issues, supervisor of the Orthodox Church Construction Program. Beglov; V.I. Resin, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, advisor to the Mayor of Moscow, advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on construction issues, supervisor of the Program for the construction of Orthodox churches in Moscow; A.G. Yaroshuk, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; A.G. Yaroshuk, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.G. Yaroshuk; Chairman of the Moscow City Duma A.V. Shaposhnikov; Head of the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of Moscow V.I. Suchkov; First Deputy Director General of Russian Railways V.V. Mikhailov; Head of the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of Moscow. Mikhailov; Chairman of the Public Council of the Federal Party Project &lquo;Senior Generation» Director of the Department of Health Care of the Government of the Russian Federation I.N. Kagramanyan; Deputy Minister of Territorial Policy of the Moscow Region I.S. Kharkov; Deputy Head of the World Russian People's Council S.Y. Rudov; Vice President of the World Russian People's Council; Vice-President of the Russian Union of People's Communities S.Yu. A.V. Potemkin; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the All-Russian Public Movement «Russia Orthodox» M.M. Ivanov.
Among those praying in Christ the Savior Cathedral were Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media V.R. Legoyda, clergymen, monastics, abbesses and nuns of nunneries, and numerous laypeople.
Legoyda.
The Patriarchal Choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (regent — I.B. Tolkachev) performed liturgical hymns.
The Patriarchal Choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (regent — I.B. Tolkachev).
The Patriarchal service was broadcast live on the television channels «Soyuz» and «Spas», as well as on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarchy.ru.
At the Litany of Liturgy, special petitions were offered for the namesake of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill:
«We pray to Thee, O Lord our God, that we may hear the voice of the Lord our God. Our prayers and supplications, and pardon Thy servant, now the namesake of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, through Thy grace and bounty, and fulfill all his petitions, and forgive him all his trespasses, both voluntary and involuntary: But to be favorable to his supplications and alms before the throne of Thy sovereignty, and to cover him from visible and invisible enemies, and to deliver him from all manner of misfortune, distress and sorrow, and from infirmities, and to give him health with long life: hear us all, O Lord, and have mercy.
Look, O Lord Most Merciful, with Your merciful eye upon Your servant His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, and hear our prayers offered in faith, as You Yourself have said, "All things whatsoever you pray, ask, believe, as you receive, and it will be done for you," and again, "Ask, and it will be done for you: For this cause we also, though unworthy, trusting in Thy mercy, beseech Thee to grant Thy goodness, now unto Thy namesake servant, His Holiness Patriarch Cyril: and grant his good wishes, and grant him peace and quiet health and long life all his days: hear us all, hear us speedily, and graciously pardon him.
Favorable as a fragrant censer and as a fat burnt offering, may this our thanksgiving be, O Most Blessed Lord, before the majesty of Thy glory for Thy goodness, which Thou hast poured out abundantly upon Thy servant, His Holiness Patriarch Cyril, and we fall down and give thanks to Thee. We bring glory to Thee, as to God, and we cry with supplication: deliver now Thy namesake servant and the Church of Russia, guided by him, from all opposition of visible and invisible enemies. But grant to Her faithful children sinless long life with health and prosperity in all virtues, we pray Thee, O Most Merciful King, mercifully hear and soon have mercy on them.
Also at the Litany of Supplication the petitions for the unity of Holy Russia were proclaimed. Metropolitan Yuvenaly (Poyarkov) read a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus Christ, our God, about the favors on the now namesake His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: «Lord Jesus Christ, our God, the God of all mercy and bounty, His mercy is immense and His humanity is an untraceable abyss! To Your Majesty, with fear and trembling, as unworthy servants, we give thanks to Your goodness for Your goodness upon Your servant, now His namesake, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, who were, now humbly offering, as Lord, Master and Benefactor, we glorify, praise, sing and magnify, and falling down, we give thanks again, humbly praying for Thy immense and inexpressible mercy. May You be pleased to accept and mercifully fulfill the prayers of Your servants as You are now, and in the time before us, in Your sincere love and in all the virtues of those who flourish, Your favors. Thy faithful servant now being honored with the namesake of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, grant that he may receive the Church of Russia, leading by himóand thereby delivering from every evil circumstance, and giving peace and serenity, to Thee, with Thy Immaculate Father, and Thy Most Holy and Blessed, and Most Eternal, and Thy Only-begotten Spirit, in One Being, glorified God, always giving thanks, and giving thanks, and saying and singing praises: Glory to Thee, O God, our benefactor, forever and ever. Holy Vladyka offered a prayer for the unity of Holy Russia. Metropolitan Constantine of Zaraisk gave a sermon before Communion. Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk.
At the end of the Liturgy a glorification of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril was celebrated, His Holiness read a prayer to the First Teachers of the Slovenes. At the end of the Liturgy, the Holy Vladyka read a prayer to the First Teachers of the Slovenes.
Afterwards, a tribute was paid to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk read the congratulatory address of the members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on his namesake's day and presented His Holiness with a vintage icon of the Savior of the Uncrowned and a bouquet of white roses. Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk read the congratulatory address of the members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on his namesake's day and presented His Holiness with a vintage icon of the Savior of the Uncrowned and a bouquet of white roses. On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin. Putin congratulated His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District I.O. Shchegolev, on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation — Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D.N. Chernyshenko.
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed the participants of the divine service with Primandial Word. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed the participants of the divine service with Primandial Word. Then the presentation of church awards took place. By the decree of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the Most Reverend Archpastors who have celebrated memorable dates and worked especially hard for the good of the Holy Church were awarded: «Once again, dear lords, fathers, brothers and sisters, I cordially congratulate you all on the feast. Through the prayers of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, may the Lord protect the Orthodox faith in our people. Amen. Christ is Risen! » — His Holiness greeted the participants of the divine service.
At the end of the service in the gallery behind the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was congratulated on his namesake's day by participants of the movement «Patriarchal Volunteers», as well as the head of the Moscow St. George Cadet Corps named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov, Colonel V.Y. Bondyukov and Zhukov cadets. The cadet corps has existed in Moscow since 1995, at present cadet classes operate at school No. 1409.
Holy Vladyka thanked and blessed the youth. Press Service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
