On December 13, 2015, the 28th Sunday after Pentecost and
the commemoration day of St. Andrew-the-First-Called,
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the
Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church
Relations (DECR) and chairman of the Commission on Old
Believer parishes and cooperation with the Old Believer
community, celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of the
Protecting Veil in Rubtsovo, at which the Patriarchal
Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition operates.
Concelebrating at the Liturgy according to the Old Rite
were Archimandrite Irinarkh (Denisov), rector of the
Common Faith church in the Mikhailovskaya Sloboda village,
Moscow region; Igumen Kirill (Sakharov), rector of the St.
Nicholas church on Bersenevka; Archpriest Georgy Krylov,
rector of the church of the New Martyrs of Russia in
Strogino and head of the Assumption deanery in Moscow;
Archpriest Ioann Mirolyubov, head of the Patriarchal
Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition, a cleric
of the church of the Protecting Veil in Rubtsovo and
secretary of the Commission on Old Believer parishes and
cooperation with the Old Believer community; Revd. Mikhail
Zheltov, head of the chair of church practice sciences of
the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of
Post-Graduate Studies; Revd. Yevgeny Sarancha, a cleric of
the Common Faith church in the Mikhailovskaya Sloboda
village; Hieromonk Sergy (Gaponov), rector of the Common
Faith church in the Maloye Murashkino village in the
Nizhny Novgorod region; and clerics of the parish.
Attending the Liturgy were Vladimir Yakunin, a founder of
the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation, and
Leonid Sevastianov, executive director of the Foundation
and member of the Supervisory Board of the Patriarchal
Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition.
After the Litany of Fervent Supplication Metropolitan
Hilarion lifted up a prayer for peace in Ukraine and
addressed the worshippers, telling them in detail about
the life and ministry of St. Andrew-the-First-Called,
including the story of his apostolic mission in our land.
St. Andrew was "the first baptizer of the Russian
people even before St. Vladimir. It was St. Andrew who
sowed the seeds of Christian preaching that later bore
abundant and blessed fruits," Metropolitan Hilarion
said and congratulated all reverend fathers, brothers and
sisters on the feast and wished them St. Andrew’s
aid in their labors.
Source
The Good Priest
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