In the Russian capital, the solemn consecration of bells for the belfry of the future church in the name of the holy martyr Hermogen, the miracle worker of Moscow and All Russia, took place. According to the network edition of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow 'Kakhovka', the rite of consecration was performed by Bishop Theophylact of Dmitrov. Vladyka was co-served by the dean of the district - Archpriest Nikolai Karasev and the rector of the parish where the temple is being built - Priest Ioann Omelyanchuk.
It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the bell ringing for Orthodox liturgical practice. “Since ancient times, church bells have been an integral part of divine services. The people said that an icon is a prayer in paints, a temple is a prayer in stone, and bells are a prayer in sound, 'the Kakhovka correspondent was told at the parish under construction.
Recall that the Hieromartyr Hermogenes came from the Don Cossacks and served as the first hierarch in a critical period for Russia - the Troubles time. He was the ideological inspirer of the first and second militias, created to liberate the country from foreign invaders. Already imprisoned in the Chudov Monastery, the patriarch refused to fulfill the Poles' demand - to order the militias to retreat from Moscow, but, on the contrary, blessed his compatriots to fight for the salvation of Russia. For which he was soon starved to death. In 1913, after the solemn opening and transfer of the relics in the Moscow Kremlin, Patriarch Yermogen was numbered among the saints in the face of martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time, the first church in Russia was consecrated in the Chudov Monastery in his honor and glory. And for the centenary of the canonization of the holy martyr in 2013, a monument to him was erected in the Alexander Garden of the Russian capital. Another modern sculptural image of Patriarch Ermogen is on the territory of the Kazan Cathedral in the city of Almetyevsk (Republic of Tatarstan).
