Русский | st-catherine.ru | July 1, 2006

Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God welcomed at St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church

Prior to the celebration of the All Night Vigil on Saturday evening, July 1, 2006, Archimandrite Zacchaeus, Dean, and the faithful clergy and laity of St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church welcomed the wonderworking copy of the Port Arthur Icon of the Feast of the Theotokos to the church.

The holy image was greeted with the singing of the Troparion and Kontakion and the Magnification. Immediately following the festal greeting, the All Night Vigil began, during which an Akathist hymn to the Icon was sung by all in the temple. With the blessing of His Holiness, Patriarch ALEKSY of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN of All America and Canada, the icon will be available for veneration at St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church until July 21, 2006.