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« On the day of remembrance of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London »
19-12-2022
On December 19, 2022, on the day of commemoration of St.Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.
His Grace was assisted by Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky, Dean of the Diocesan District of South East England Archpriest Vitaly Polishchuk, Archpriest Nicolae Prescura, Priest Vasily Gandzyuk, Protodeacon Vadim Santsevitch, and Deacon Ioann Silnic.
Liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the Dormition Cathedral under the direction of Dmitry Tugarinov.
After the augmented litany, the Archpastor proclaimed a prayer for the granting of peace.
At the end of the divine service, Vladyka Matthew performed a prayerful glorification in front of the icon of St. Nicholas with a particle of his holy relics, congratulated those bearing name of Nicholas with the day of their Angel, and addressed those present with a word of sermon and spiritual edification.