On November 17, 2024, in the Week of the 21st Pentecost, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
On November 17, 2024, in the Week of the 21st Pentecost, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
The third Sunday in November is the annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, which is part of the UN system of international and global days.
The third Sunday in November is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
His Holiness was served at the Liturgy by: Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, First Vicar for Moscow of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Archbishop Thomas of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Roman of Serpukhov, vicar of the Vysotsky Stavropegial Monastery; Bishop Alexis of Ramensk, personal secretary of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill; Propriest Mikhail Ryazantsev, clergyman of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; Archpriest Andrey Maruschak, clergyman of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; clergy of Moscow.
Propriest Mikhail Ryazantsev, clergyman of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; clergy of Moscow.
The divine service was attended by the chairman of the S.A. Gavrilov of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Property, Land and Property Relations.
In the temple prayed nuns of nunneries in Moscow, numerous believers.
The liturgical hymns were performed by the Patriarchal Choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior under the baton of I.B. Tolkachev.
The patriarchal service was broadcast live on «Soyuz» and «Spas», as well as on the official portal of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarchy.ru.
At the Litany of Supplication, special petitions were offered, and the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church read a prayer for Holy Russia.
At the Litany of Supplication, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church read a prayer for Holy Russia.
At the Litany of requiem, the archdeacon offered a petition for the repose of «all those who died in road accidents.
At the Litany of Requiem the archdeacon offered a petition for the repose of «all those who died in road accidents.
Holy Patriarch Kirill read the exclamation at the requiem Litany: «As Thou art the resurrection and the life and rest of Thy departed servants, all those who perished in traffic accidents, O Christ our God, and to Thee we send glory, with Thy beginningless Father, and Thy Most Holy, and Blessed, and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages»"
Holy Patriarch Kirill read the Litany of Requiem.
After the Liturgy, the Primate of the Russian Church ordained a deacon Grigory Falin, clergyman of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at Saltykov Most in Moscow, was ordained a presbyter.
The sermon before communion was delivered by Priest Peter Mikhalev, rector of the Church of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon at the Central Clinical Hospital No. 1 of JSC «Russian Railways».
The sermon before communion was delivered by Priest Peter Mikhalev.
After the Liturgy ended, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill addressed the participants of the service with Holy Patriarch Kirill's Imperial Word.
At the end of the service, Patriarchal awards were presented: in consideration of his contribution to the development of church-state relations, S.A. Gavrilov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Property, Land and Property Relations, was awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree.
At the end of the service, the Patriarch was awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree.
Press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
