Friday
Mar152019

« On Thursday of the first week of the Great Lent, the compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St.Andrew of Crete was served at the London Cathedral »

On March 14, 2019, on Thursday of the first week of the Great Lent, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh led the reading of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete at the Dormition Cathedral in London.
His Grace was assisted by the clergy of the Cathedral: Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky, Archpriest Vitaly Polishchuk, Archpriest Joseph Skinner, Dean of the Diocesan District of the South-West of England, and Priest Dimitry Nedostupenko, Secretary of the Diocese of Sourozh.
The canon's songs were read in both Church Slavonic and English.
At the end of the service, the Right Reverend Vladyka addressed the clergy and parishioners with words of sermon and spiritual edification.