the Festival begins on Friday evening. Yesterday his Holiness, making already traditional for this day of the bringing of the “Emotion”, located in the Vladimir temple of the Patriarchal residence in Chisty pereulok in Yelokhovsky Cathedral, traveled with him around Moscow. Detours or new time overflights of cities with the miraculous icon is a long – standing pious custom, special, invoking the spiritual protection of the city.
After a detour in front of the icon to serve Matins with the Akathist of the Holy virgin (Matins – not specifying the time of serving a particular service type, which is often served in the evening).
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Now during these Church services, there are almost no or few members, others join the prayer of the house on the website of the Patriarchate placed the Rite of prayers, you can also watch the broadcast service on the channel “Spas” and “Union”.
After Matins Patriarch Kirill addressed the faithful with a Message in which he repeated the call for “more prayer to the Lord about fencing people from malicious epidemic, and the archpastors and pastors to continue in their zeal to worship and especially the divine Eucharist – the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, even in the absence of the flock by reason of the relevant recommendations of the authorities.”
“Indeed, “the work of God nothing should prefer,” he quoted the Patriarch of the Charter of the monk Benedict of Nursia.
– Today, many of us must take on the feat of the ever present stay in their homes. So I say: let the place of your retreat will be for you a desert of personal and family prayer, then you are on the word of the gospel: but Thou, when you pray, go into your room and shut thy door, pray to thy Father Which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Let this feat inspire us and the image of St. Mary of Egypt, many years spent alone in prayer in the wilderness.
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Noting that these days the faithful are deprived of the opportunity to be together for a while, all of us lent Church services, he recalled the words from the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans: “neither death, Nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” He compared today’s forced separation from those that previously have repeatedly happened in history when the Christians were scattered “in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth”.
But, according to the Patriarch, we in this scattering of “inviolate community of faith, United by heartfelt prayer to the Lord Jesus.” In this prayer, he said, “we are not alone” with us “our Holy relatives, ascetics of the Russian Church from all periods of its historical existence”. “Take courage, the Church of Christ <...> Hristovi Bo friends care about you”, the Patriarch called on the faithful to suffer “temporary hardship for the sake of life and health of our neighbors.”
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– Let us patiently endure the tribulation visited us in firm hope that the Almighty Lord, who accepted suffering and death for the human race and by His Resurrection opened to us the way to salvation in blagovremeno primenit the sorrow to the joy of meeting in praising Him in prayer for the temple worship “And the Lord will wipe away tears from all faces and remove the reproach the Lord with His people in all the earth”, he quoted the prophet Isaiah. He also called on especially to especially pray for those who selflessly believes their hand to stop the plagues and works for the sustenance of our mountainstechniques and sat down, and to be grateful to them.
