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| (mospat.ru) - On July 12, 2010, the commemoration day of Sts Peter and Paul, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Sts Peter and Paul on the Yauza River, which is the representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow. |
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Joseph: This is a beautiful photo. It leaves me speechless with a grateful heart to Almighty God for His great gift of the Liturgy. Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteWhy do Serbian Orthodox need a Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow? What? Russian Orthodox Churches not 'holy', 'pure', 'Orthodox' enough for them? Being partly Serbian myself, I know they think and believe that only "THEY" are GOD's "chosen people", but please.............
ReplyDeleteMatthew--
ReplyDeleteAll the autocephalous churches have representational Churches in Moscow. Their main function is to serve as a kind of ecclesial embassy and the priest or bishop assigned to them's main job is church diplomacy. The churches themselves basically function as local parishes for Russians, and many of them have Russian clergy assigned to them to assist the foreign priest or bishop there. At the Antiochian respresentational church in Moscow, for example, you'd be very hard pressed to know it was a representational church, unless you listen for Patriarch Ignatius' name being commemorated with Patriarch Kyril. Everything is in Slavonic and all the clergy but one are Russians, as are nearly all the parishioners. At the OCA representation, there is a once-monthly English language liturgy for expats (unique in Moscow), but in its daily services it functions as would any other local parish in Moscow. I haven't visited the others.
Liked the photo a lot as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the explanation of the metochia in Moscow.